light bodies falling
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adelaideseanI have a new book coming out this month. Not a novel, but a collection of short stories from my early days as a writer, covering science fiction, horror and even a weird attempt at erotic humour. Some of the stories have been collected in the past; some are being reprinted for the first time; one, the seed story for The Crooked Letter has never been published before. Two of the stories deal with d-mat technology from The Resurrected Man. One, a prequel to my first novel Metal Fatigue, has been out of print for years.
If that's not enough, there's also an introduction by Rob Hood and a foreword by Shane Dix. And each story comes with (brief) notes from me, explaining where they came from and why I picked them for this book.
But wait. That's not all! The publisher, Altair Australia, is offering signed pre-release copies of Light Bodies Falling at a 10% discount. Follow the link below for more info on that, and for a full list of the stories.
I'm excited about this release because it gives some of my riskier, more experimental ideas another jog around the park. Most of them come from the early to mid 1990s, when I was still trying to find my voice, or muse, or whatever it was I stumbled across that's enabled me to write over twenty books since.
It also brings that one, special story out into the light for the very first time. Whether you like The Crooked Letter or hate it, or are just curious to see how little a finished work actually relies on its core idea, it's definitely worth a read.
I reckon so, anyway. But I might be just a tiny bit biased. :-)
Okay, here are the stories. The bracketed titles indicate which novels they're related to, or provides other information to tempt you.
"The Jackie Onassis Swamp-Buggy Concerto"
"Ghosts of the Fall" (my Writers of the Future Contest-winning story)
"Going Nowhere"
"New Flames for an Old Love" (The Resurrected Man)
"On the Road to Tarsus" (The Resurrected Man)
"Light Bodies Falling"
"Dissolution Days" (Metal Fatigue)
"Love & Mandarins" (almost romance, long before I activated my bodice-ripper gene)
"Mary’s Blood"
"In the Eye of the Octopus" (slightly sexy and more than a little silly)
"The Land Itself"
"Signs of Death" The Crooked Letter
And here's the deal: the book will retail unsigned for $19.95 (all prices in Australian dollars) plus $5.95 P&H. Signed pre-release copies are going for $17.95 plus P&H. If you'd like one, drop Altair Australia a line and you'll be well looked after. I give you my personal guarantee.
If that's not enough, there's also an introduction by Rob Hood and a foreword by Shane Dix. And each story comes with (brief) notes from me, explaining where they came from and why I picked them for this book.
But wait. That's not all! The publisher, Altair Australia, is offering signed pre-release copies of Light Bodies Falling at a 10% discount. Follow the link below for more info on that, and for a full list of the stories.
I'm excited about this release because it gives some of my riskier, more experimental ideas another jog around the park. Most of them come from the early to mid 1990s, when I was still trying to find my voice, or muse, or whatever it was I stumbled across that's enabled me to write over twenty books since.
It also brings that one, special story out into the light for the very first time. Whether you like The Crooked Letter or hate it, or are just curious to see how little a finished work actually relies on its core idea, it's definitely worth a read.
I reckon so, anyway. But I might be just a tiny bit biased. :-)
Okay, here are the stories. The bracketed titles indicate which novels they're related to, or provides other information to tempt you.
"The Jackie Onassis Swamp-Buggy Concerto"
"Ghosts of the Fall" (my Writers of the Future Contest-winning story)
"Going Nowhere"
"New Flames for an Old Love" (The Resurrected Man)
"On the Road to Tarsus" (The Resurrected Man)
"Light Bodies Falling"
"Dissolution Days" (Metal Fatigue)
"Love & Mandarins" (almost romance, long before I activated my bodice-ripper gene)
"Mary’s Blood"
"In the Eye of the Octopus" (slightly sexy and more than a little silly)
"The Land Itself"
"Signs of Death" The Crooked Letter
And here's the deal: the book will retail unsigned for $19.95 (all prices in Australian dollars) plus $5.95 P&H. Signed pre-release copies are going for $17.95 plus P&H. If you'd like one, drop Altair Australia a line and you'll be well looked after. I give you my personal guarantee.
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Date: 2007-02-27 11:07 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-02-27 11:15 am (UTC)See this is what I get when I stay up past my bedtime after a long work day :)
Sounds (d'oh I mean looks) like an interesting compliation.
Nicky
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Date: 2007-02-27 11:48 am (UTC)There are a couple of other stories in here that deal with sexily horrific stuff ("Mary's Blood", "Going Nowhere"). Not deliberately; it just fell out that way. But maybe I should've changed the title of the book to "Light Bodices Falling" instead...
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Date: 2007-02-27 01:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-02-27 11:36 pm (UTC)"Gauzy Bodices Wafting" has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? :-)
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Date: 2007-02-28 12:14 am (UTC)I should get a copy to add to my expanding collection. Lilla helped me get more copies of books I hadn't been able to find before :D
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Date: 2007-03-01 12:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-01 12:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-01 12:56 am (UTC)I'll look into it.
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Date: 2007-05-12 06:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-12 08:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-12 08:40 am (UTC)Tracking down your other collection, which came out while I was in Jamaica probably not so easy!
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Date: 2007-05-12 08:43 am (UTC)I love the barter system. :-)
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Date: 2007-05-12 09:08 am (UTC)These are lying around happy to leave :-
http://www.bookmooch.com/m/inventory/bluetyson
I have a beaten up second copy of The Dark Knight Returns. :)
Food?
Booze?
Comics?
Quickflix DVD voucher?
Highlander 2 special edition? :-)
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Date: 2007-05-12 09:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-12 11:57 am (UTC)(I'd never heard of BookMooch until you posted the link. Such a simple, brilliant idea. I'm going to sign up one day for sure.)
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Date: 2007-05-12 12:13 pm (UTC)There is also http://www.sf-books.com/, as a dedicated site, I have used that one for a while, as well.
The former is probably the best one, and easiest to use. There are others, but some are US only and other stuff like that.
What do you want me to do, mail it to you, your agent, meet you in the city and swap?
I have no dead-letter drops left. :)
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Date: 2007-05-13 05:29 am (UTC)PO Box 6600
Halifax St PO
Adelaide SA 5000
I haven't unpacked the box containing those books, but it won't be long, I promise. :-)
I gave away several boxes of books to Oxfam when I moved. Good for my karma...
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Date: 2007-05-13 05:39 am (UTC)Yeah, my nana used to do stuff for Oxfam.
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Date: 2007-05-14 02:21 am (UTC)Good on your nana. People who work for charities should get automatic OBEs, imo, or whatever the local equivalent is. :-)
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Date: 2007-05-14 03:14 am (UTC)There are a few varieties of that sort of thing, though I think?