by Ian Whates
“Ian Whates has a way with words, a storyteller's sensibility… Definitely one to watch.” —Jon Courtenay Grimwood.
“It is his characters who live through the story and make the reader need to know just how it’s all going to pan out, human characters who may seem familiar but then there’s that one thing, that shifted alteration that changes the world and changes the reader too.” —Interzone
“The variety is only one of the pleasures on offer; others are the fully rounded, if not always likable, characters, and Whates’s knack for taking stories in unexpected directions… This may not be cutting-edge SF, but it is satisfying, well observed and entertaining.” —The Guardian
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Paradox
Stories inspired by the Fermi Paradox
With introduction by astronomer Marek Kukula and Rob Edwards of Royal Observatory Greenwich, and original stories from:
Pat Cadigan, Adam Roberts, Paul Cornell, Mike Resnick, Robert Reed, Tricia Sullivan, Paul di Filippo, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Eric Brown, Keith Brooke, Stephanie Saulter, Mercurio Rivera, Rachel Armstrong, and more…
The Fermi Paradox is the apparent contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial civilizations’ existence and the lack of contact with such civilizations.
In Paradox, a selection of the world’s leading science fiction authors are joined by physicists and other scientists in writing exciting and original stories inspired by Fermi’s famous paradox, daring to ask…
Where Is Everybody?
“Paradox lives up to the usual high standards we have come to expect from Newcon Press…. most of the stories here are very good. Four or five are outstanding.” – Amazing Stories
“Whates has assembled a splendidly diverse collection of stories, ranging from coolly cerebral thought experiments to unashamedly pulpy twist-in-the-tail romps. His real coup, though, is commissioning tales from scientists – space technologist Gerry Webb and biology innovator Rachel Armstrong among them – alongside SF stalwarts.” – The Financial Times
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Immanion Press
Speculative Fiction
The Moonshawl by Storm Constantine
Ysbryd drwg… the bad ghost. Hired by Wyva, the phylarch of the Wyvachi tribe, Ysobi goes to Gwyllion to create a spiritual system based upon local folklore, but he soon discovers some of that folklore is out of bounds, taboo… Secrets lurk in the soil of Gwyllion, and the old house Meadow Mynd, home of the Wyvachi leaders. The house and the land are haunted. The fields are soaked in blood and echo with the cries of those who were slaughtered there, almost a century ago. Old hatreds and a thirst for vengeance have been awoken by the approaching coming of age of Wvya’s son, Myvyen. If the harling is to survive, Ysobi must lay the ghosts to rest and scour the tainted soil of malice. But the ysbryd drwg is strong, built of a century of resentment and evil thoughts. Is it too powerful, even for a scholarly hienama with Ysobi’s experience and skill? ‘The Moonshawl’ is a standalone supernatural story, set in the world of Storm Constantine’s ground-breaking, science fantasy Wraeththu mythos
ISBN: 978-1-907737-62-6 £11.99, $20.99
Ghosteria 2: The Novel: Zircons May be Mistaken by Tanith Lee
Sometimes when people die, it comes as a great shock. Even to them…
A group of the dead linger here, in the yellow dwelling on the hill – once a castle, then a stately home, now falling into ruin. These ghosts drift and mingle, and brood on their lost lives. Death can be caused by so many things – war, pandemics, ordinary murder – even suicide or accident. Even time. But after death, surely, one could hope for peace? Not any more. For with 2020 the New Apocalypse began. Civilisation crashed, and outside this ancient building things terrible, predatory, mindless and unkillable roam and bellow.
Now all the lights have gone out for good – Where do you turn?
ISBN: 978-1-907737-63-3 £9.99 $18.99
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About the Author