Elsewhere

• Fiction by authors G to M and N to Z.
• Fiction contents.

• The Universal Language of Silence. Old friends, parted and reunited by chance. But why will Lori not speak? [Size: 34Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: April 2003 --

• The Figure in the Carpet. "One night, we looked up and saw that Heaven was tearing apart." [Size: 48Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: December 2002 --

• Scientific Romance. A young Wells and his mentor TH Huxley climb to the rooftops to watch the Leonid meteor shower and discuss evolution, martians, wars between worlds... [Size: 31Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: June 2001 --

• Under the Moons of Jizma. William S Burroughs in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs... this one has to be read to be believed! [Size: 62Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: June 2000--

• Flanders. The desolation of the front line brought powerfully to life in an extract from Pat's First World War fantasy novel. [Size: 15Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: November 1997 --

• Airs from Another Planet. Professor Capelian has unearthed the manuscripts of a forgotten composer, a man who may just have been descended from a legendary race of Songspinners. Sometimes music can take over your life... [Size: 32Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: March 1998 --
• The Lost Child. When Rahab the tailor finds a child's body on his doorstep -- a child so like his missing brother -- he knows his persecuted people will stand accused. A striking extract from Sarah's new fantasy novel. [Size: 17Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: January 1998 --

• Adaptogenic. The strangest things can turn up at auction: valuable things, dangerous things... [Size: 79Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: December 2001 --
• Africa Zero. If he changes the spectrum of his hearing he can hear the low rumbles of the mammoths. Things are different after the Convulsion. An extract from the short novel. [Size: 19Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: September 2002--
• Cowl. What it is to be hunted. Extracts from the novel. [Size: 41Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: January 2005--
• Gridlinked. Freeman can't shake the half-formed memory of the catadapt woman -- but why is she here at the embarkation lounge...? An extract from the novel. [Size: 21Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: April 2001 --
• The Line of Polity. Cormac and his team are on a rescue mission, a quick smash and grab. If only it could be so straightforward. Extracts from the novel. [Size: 34Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: January 2005 --
• The Skinner. What's good for the species isn't always the best thing for the individual... Extracts from the novel. [Size: 34Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: January 2005 --

• Remembrance. "I am a Learner. My son has been killed. My daughter has not. I do not know where she is, but I will Learn." [Size: 18Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: January 2006 --

• The Dust Enclosed Here. His last memory: the strange doctor who'd come for his soul, or at least it had seemed so to Will... [Size: 45Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: August 2002 --

• Gryphon Rider. Shot down on the wrong side of the lines, Wing-Captain Heleia finds herself in an enemy field hospital, a female warrior in a land unaccustomed to women who fight. [Size: 45Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: January 2003 --
• The Reliquary Ring. Serafina searches the Palazzo Dracone for fellow genic, Hyacinth. But how can she be prepared for what she finds...? [Size: 23Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: March 2003 --

• Capacity. The world outside was full of psychedelic colours and bad smells and AIs with problems. Extract from the novel. [Size: 52Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: January 2006 --
• Recursion. Something had gone terribly wrong. Somehow he had made a mess of the code that should have told the Von Neumann Machines to ... stop. Extract from the novel.[Size: 22Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: November 2004 --
• Worlds Apart. It must be love. Or another alien virus... [Size: 36Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: December 2001 --

• In the Shadow of Her Wings. They're armed with something far more dangerous than physical weaponry. They're armed with the power of the spirit. [Size: 39Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: June 2004 --

• The Clients of Caralios. The deep, deep future of hair stylists. [Size: 46Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: June 2005 --

• Hinterland. You have to be special to find Arcadia. You have to be even more special to get in... [Size: 29Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: April 2006 --

• Silent Night. They're the elite: highly trained soldiers, finely tuned killing machines. And they have a terrifying mission: they're fighting Santa Claus... [Size: 34Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: December 1998 --

• Perpetuity Blues. Maggie's father disappeared in Strange Circumstances; her mother died watching reruns of Bonanza and Rawhide. And so begins the rocky road to fame, fortune and romance, with a little help from a guy who claims he's an alien. [Size: 90Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: July 2000 --

• The Gravity Mine. The first time she woke, she was in the ruins of an abandoned gravity mine, built on the ruins of the galaxy from which humans first emerged. The universe would grow far older before she woke again. [Size: 29Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: August 2001 --
• Moon Six. The mission: Bado is on the Moon to collect samples. The problem: he's just stepped into another universe... one where he's on his own... and he's left his landing module behind. [Size: 81Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: April 1998 --
• Raft. The short story which formed the basis of Steve's first novel, plus a specially written foreword. A high-spirited tale of youthful rebellion and coming of age in a universe where the laws of nature are dramatically different. [Size: 39Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: August 1997 --

• The Holy Machine. The Outlands: a fundamentalist world surrounding the rationalist and sophisticated Illyria. The tensions here are never far from the surface. [Size: 37Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: November 2004 --

• An Artificial Life. How do you study human intelligence? From the outside, of course... [Size: 35Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: February 2004 --

• Cyberpunk. The short story that gave the world the word cyberpunk, plus a foreword discussing the story's background and its place in what was to follow... [Size: 33Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: December 1997 --
• Expendables. Two company vice-presidents, a senator, five pseudonyms who had to be active military, the usual bunch of aides and sycophants. The guerillas could turn this into a truly memorable international incident, if only they had a SAM-6 missile... [Size: 41Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: November 1998 --
• The Skanky Soul of Jimmy Twist. Even white boys have soul. It's just that sometimes they have to follow a long and devious route to find it. Short story, plus an afterword by the author. [Size: 40Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: September 1998 --

• The Distance Keeper. Toby paid close attention to all the evidence of the impossible: the cracks, the time it took to get from place to place. [Size: 29Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: October 2005 --
• King of All and the Metal Sentinel. The mechanical begins another slow circuit along the wall, pausing to greet each of the six familiar towers like an old friend, king of all he surveys. [Size: 36Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: February 2007 --

• The Art of Dying. KJ Bishop's first story, set in a sort of beta version of Ashamoil, the city in The Etched City. [Size: 53Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: December 2004 --

• Blue Kansas Sky. Rory Peacock just got out of prison, but it's a blue sky day and Sonny doesn't want to stay indoors. An extract from the novella. [Size: 21Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: October 2000 --
• Chihuahua Flats. So much skin. Such lakegreen eyes. A mouth you could press a kiss on without ever quite reaching her teeth. Dougan was in love. [Size: 47Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: October 2000 --
• Death and Designation among the Asadi. Egan Chaney believes that the only way to study the Asadi was to mix with them as if he were one of their own outcasts -- an alien among aliens... An extract from the novella. [Size: 30Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: October 2000 --

• England Underway. The delightful tale of Mr Fox's journey to visit his family... [Size: 52Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: February 1998 --

• Straight to my Lover's Heart. Outcasts of Time. Runaways. Fugitives. That was Raz's speciality. That, and matchmaking. [Size: 20Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: June 2002 --

• Gray Matter. She didn't want to see him. Her son: her own flesh and blood. But she had to look in on him... [Size: 29Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: March 2003 --

• The Keys to D'Espérance. One day, they always told him, D'Espérance would be his. But after a time he stopped believing that the day would ever come. Strange, dark, powerful fiction from Chaz Brenchley. [Size: 53Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: November 1999 --

• Adrenotropic Man. A first professional sale - near-future science fiction at the time, but in a mere seven years it's become history. How close was he to getting it right? Take a look for yourself. [Size: 34Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: July 1997 --
• The Art of Self-abuse. He is powerful and smart ... the best that money will be able to buy. Includes a foreword by the author. [Size: 56Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: October 2005 --
• Genetopia. Henritt was determined to make a success of his first trip as head of his clan's delegation. But then Henritt hadn't bargained on the golden-eyed mutt... [Size: 57Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: February 2006 --
• Professionals. River Brady's wife has left him and he's determined to win her back -- he wants a planned reconciliation, a trial unseparation. And he wants Christian Taylor to set it up. Includes a foreword by the author. [Size: 47Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: October 1998 --
• Solo. An investigative journalist, a UFO, an alien on the loose... A story written for the first issue of Mike Cobley's Mind Maps. [Size: 21Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: June 1997 --

• In Transit. A small team of humans... their captive: a deadly Kryte, the first ever to be taken alive... their mission: to understand the enemy. An extract from the novella. [Size: 17Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: April 2007 --

• The Crimes of Domini Duvall. He had vowed never to let himself get close to another person again. But then he met crystal artist Domini Duvall... Includes a foreword by the author. [Size: 52Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: March 2004 --
• Dark Calvary. When bitter rationalism meets blind faith something has to give... [Size: 82Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: April 2005 --
• The Disciples of Apollo. A dying man retreats to an island refuge, where he finally learns what it is to be alive. A beautiful and moving story from one of the best of the 'interzone generation' of writers. We also include a foreword written specially for infinity plus. [Size: 28Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: August 1997 --
• Helix. He woke from dreams of Chrissie. He woke with the starship breaking up around him... An extract from the novel. [Size: 74Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: June 2007 --
• The Phoenix Experiment. A powerful and compassionate story of loss and redemption -- a companion piece to "The Disciples of Apollo". [Size: 29Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: December 1997 --
• Pithecanthropus Blues. It began as a tickle in the backbrain. And it ended somewhere else entirely... With a foreword by the author. [Size: 57Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: October 2000 --

• Asleep at the Wheel. Carrie dreams of the past, she dreams of the present ... and the meaning of her dreams really matters. [Size: 16Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: November 1997 --
• Community Service. Kathy was asleep in her cardboard hut on the bridge between the twenty-fourth floors of two buildings when the sound of spinning blades woke her... [Size: 54Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: June 2001 --
• Women on the Brink of a Cataclysm. Joanna's the model housewife. Joanna's an artist too. Or several artists. And Joanna is bent on murder... [Size: 74Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: August 1997 --

• Any Time Now. He's a misfit, displaced in time, trying to come to terms with a world very different to his own. And he's ended up on Kate's doorstep. What else could she do? [Size: 40Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: December 2001 --

• Wyrmhole. Things tended to happen around Jack. A chance meeting was invariably more than simple chance. So when he met PinPin Dan again... An extract from the novel. [Size: 20Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: October 2003 --

• The Hounds of Avalon. A Sister of Dragons and a Fragile Creature seek the wisdom of Math, brother to the goddess Don, but first they must prove themselves worthy. An extract from the novel. [Size: 21Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: December 2004 --
• The King of Rain. Male bonding on the moors: raw truths exposed, dark secrets revived. And plenty of rain. Short horror with a foreword by the author. [Size: 58Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: November 1998 --
• Where Do You Go When The Lights Go Out?. At first he loved her. Then he came to hate her. And finally, he understood. [Size: 36Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: April 1999 --

• The One-Armed Elek. It's the worst famine in four generations and the village's trance-singer, Tath, who knows the future, must seek the mercy of the ocean goddess. [Size: 19Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: November 2001 --

• Understand. He came so close to drowning, but they reached him just in time. It's the first time the hospital has ever tried their new drug on someone with so much brain damage. Does it work? Does it work too well...? [Size: 113Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: August 1999; temporarily removed in November 2000 and reinstated in August 2002 --

• A Journey South. With Katherine finally dead it's time for Starmer to reassess his life in a disturbingly perfect future. A novelette first written for Last Dangerous Visions by one of British sf's masters, with an introduction by Keith Brooke. [Size: 108Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: December 2000 --

• Appleseed. Stinky Freer, off-ship and in the middle of a world, has suddenly become an important person, which is not necessarily a good -- or healthy -- thing to be. An extract from the novel. [Size: 40Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: November 2001 --

• Synopsis of a Looking-Glass Rebellion. A quirky, densely-packed thriller from Mike's connected series of Alternate Britannia stories -- this one first published in the stylish underground SF magazine BBR. [Size: 16Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: August 1997 --
• Shadowmasque. The Four Winds Inn was a place where all kinds of people came to mix and drink and plot and argue. Plenty to occupy a Watcher... An extract from the novel. [Size: 39Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: July 2005 --
• Tactics at Twilight. Psychological intrigue and chess -- another Alternate Britannia story, first published in The Unusual Genitals Party. [Size: 31Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: October 1997 --
• The Undertaker Faker Caper. Just another case for Jack Devlin: a wealthy client wants to know why someone's holding a virtual funeral for him when he's still very much alive. And then things get personal... [Size: 33Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: April 2000 --

• The Getaway Star. A box office attraction, a new leading lady, a splat movie director with very individual tastes... When you're successful they just won't let you go. [Size: 29Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: October 2001 --
• The Government in Exile. Tomorrow is Revolution Day, the most dangerous of the year, but that still leaves time to shoot a few more unemployed. [Size: 32Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: March 2001 --

• I Remember Pallahaxi. Cultures clash, cultures meet: male and female live separately - it's only natural. A sequel to Hello Summer, Goodbye, this extract includes a downloadable version of the complete novel. [Size: 68Kb; 568 Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: July 2005 --

• British Summertime. Ally was never wrong. So when she foresaw the end of the world it was time to be concerned... [Size: 28Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: June 2002 --

• Half-Life. Just now Miriam, your wife -- no, your widow -- walked through you... [Size: 28Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: June 2003 --
• Out Stack. Sometimes you have to travel a long, long way... [Size: 49Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: January 2006 --

• Shadow Christ. The thing in the ground: an aeroplane. But the two of them would be long dead before such things were invented... [Size: 37Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: September 2003 --

• Front-Page McGuffin and the Greatest Story Never Told. It's not always as easy as you'd think to tell dead folks from those that are still alive, and certainly not by where you happen to find them. [Size: 81Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: December 2005 --
• Palindromic. "It was on the third day after the aliens arrived that we made the fateful discovery which placed the future of the entire planet in our hands. That discovery was that they hadn't arrived yet." [Size: 59Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: March 1999 --
• Songs of Leaving. Time to escape, and to sing a song of leaving ... for what lies before them and what they have left behind. [Size: 57Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: October 2004 --

• A Dry, Quiet War. He's been away a long time. Twelve billion years, in fact. And even now the war won't leave him alone. [Size: 52Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: October 1998 --
• Life on the Moon. A sweeping love story, charting the territory between poetry and hard science fiction. This story was nominated for a Hugo award and winner of the 1996 Asimov's readers' poll. [Size: 44Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: August 1998 --

• The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean. An unforgettable road trip across a nation torn by bitter racial strife and violently divided by war, with an American legend at the wheel. [Size: 17Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: September 2004 --

• Tall Tales on the Iron Horse. He had to track her down ... wherever it took him. [Size: 37Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: August 2007 --

• Dusk. They must follow the sun to survive, even though no one had ever contemplated such a thing before. [Size: 35Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: January 2007 --
• A Son of the Rock. A world where drugs allow the ageing process to be deferred to your final days. A man whose genes exclude him from the anti-ageing treatment. A specially written foreword and two extracts from a striking first novel. [Size: 5Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: September 1997 --

• A Hot and Copper Sky. The men would be here soon. She tried not to think about it... [Size: 44Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: July 2003 --

• Singularity. Tunguska. What really happened...? An extract from the novel. [Size: 58Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: February 2005 --

• Fuzzy Dice. "My life was thoroughly and hopelessly, six-ways-from-Holy-Roller-Sunday fucked. Talk about your goddamn Saint Paul revelations!" An extract from the novel. [Size: 62Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: August 2003 --
• Karuna, Inc. A coffee-house, a war veteran, chipped toenails, and a man whose brain has been partly-replaced. Oh, and dogs. Did I mention the dogs? [Size: 185Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: October 2001 --
• The Reluctant Book. When a Master Biobiblioplexist dies, how do you dispose of his library? Bizarre wonders from a master of the off-beat. [Size: 59Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: April 2001 --
• What's Up Tiger Lily? The first indication received by Bash Applebrook that all was not right with his world happened over breakfast on the morning of Tuesday, June 25th, 2029. [Size: 109Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: August 2007 --

• Eastern Standard Tribe. April 3, 2012 was the day that Art Berry nearly killed the first and only woman he ever really loved. It was her fault. Extract from Cory Doctorow's second novel. [Size: 41Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: May 2004 --

• Resonance. You can't create a world in seven days without cutting corners. [Size: 62Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: January 2006 --

• Fortitude. It all started with a flash of déjà vu for George Smith Patton, Jr, as he supervised an interrogation in a Mexican hut on May 14, 1916. Or rather, it started again... A major novella from a talented new writer. [Size: 155Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: October 2000 --

• Vellum. She gave up heaven and earth, to journey down into the underworld. An extract from the novel. [Size: 26Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: July 2005 --

• The Four-thousand-year-old Boy. Dare you visit the four-thousand-year-old boy? You'd better be quick: the boy is up for sale... Striking grotesquery from an Interzone discovery. [Size: 34Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: December 1999 --

• TAP. Total Affect Protocol: an implanted chip which means that ultimately there's nothing a human being can experience which needs to remain ... ineffable, mysterious, incommunicable. Nothing is beyond discussion. Nothing is beyond analysis. Nothing is 'unspeakable'. A lot of people find that prospect threatening. [Size: 94Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: April 1998 --
• Worthless. The song says, 'You're worthless. Your pain mean nothing at all.' But in the 21st century your pain -- and the wires in your head -- drives the music business. [Size: 29Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: December 1998 --
• Yeyuka. Twenty years into the new millennium disease is a thing of the past - in the developed world, at least. [Size: 45Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: April 1999 --

• What the EPA Don't Know Won't Hurt Them. To anyone else's eyes it was just a piece of scrap metal - a pick-up smashed beyond repair. But to Johnny Beau it was one of the last pieces in a puzzle that had taken years to piece together... [Size: 34Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: April 2000 --

• Fidelity. Broken minds, broken hearts -- can they be repaired? The first published story from Christopher Evans, slightly revised for infinity plus. [Size: 32Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: August 1997 --
• The Rites of Winter. Coming to terms with loss in a world of uncertainty -- chilling fantasy from Christopher Evans. [Size: 23Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: November 1997 --

• Someone Else. The first time Déa saw herself, it was from half a block away. [Size: 40Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: November 2005 --

• The Cosmology of the Wider World. When the minotaur calls in that special way, his friends come immediately. He needs them... An extract from the novella, with a foreword by the author. [Size: 26Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: December 2005 --
• Exo-Skeleton Town. This is Exo-Skeleton Town, the dung rolling capitol of the universe, where the sun never shines and bug folk barter their excremental wealth for earth movies almost two centuries old. [Size: 66Kb]
  -- added to infinity plus: March 2002 --

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