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The Best of British Fantasy

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The Best of British Fantasy 2018

Now on sale at Amazon.com, Amazon UK, and your friendly local bookshop.

The limited edition is available exclusively from NewCon Press!

TBOBF2018 CHARCOAL EDIT non sigThe Best of British Fantasy contains over twenty brilliant stories of the strange and fantastic.

It comes packed with mermaids, impossible quizzes, sorcerous rogues, magic swords, towering monsters, ghostly lovers, unreachable islands, numerous apocalypses, a particularly irritating local councillor, and bees.

"Sometimes melancholic, sometimes humorous, poetic or slightly surreal, they have been brilliantly chosen for the quality of language, story-line and thematic relevance to our passions and fixations in an ever-maddening world." - British Fantasy Society

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: "We will all fall together" by Jared Shurin
  • "There's a Witch in the Word Machine" by Jenni Fagan 
  • "We Are Now Beginning Our Descent" by Malcolm Devlin 
  • "The Dance of a Thousand Cuts" by Liam Hogan 
  • "A Son of the Sea" by Priya Sharma 
  • "To Look Upon His Works" by RJ Barker 
  • "12 Answers Only You Can Question" by James Warner 
  • "The Woman Who Turned Into Soap" by Harkiran Dhindsa 
  • "Mushroom Speed Boosts" by Ben Reynolds 
  • "The Guile" by Ian McDonald 
  • "We can make something grow between the mushrooms and the snow" by Kirsty Logan 
  • "The Moss Child" by Lisa Fransson 
  • "Boys" by Lizzie Hudson 
  • "The Farm at the World's End" by Helen McClory 
  • "The Prevaricator" by Matthew Hughes 
  • "The Small Island" by Heather Parry 
  • "A Gift of Tongues" by Paul McQuade
  • "Velocity" by Steph Swainston 
  • "Counting the Pennies" by Rhys Hughes 
  • "The Councillor's Visit" by Beth Goddard 
  • "Yard Dog" by Tade Thompson
  • "Dark Shells" by Aliya Whiteley
  • "Coruvorn" by Reggie Oliver 
  • "The Godziliad" by Adam Roberts
  • "Underground" by Archie Black (Limited edition exclusive)

Cover art by Matty Long

Edited by Jared Shurin

Details

978-1-912950-17-1 (Hardcover, signed & numbered limited edition: available only through the publisher)

978-1-912950-18-8 (Paperback)

The Best of British Fantasy 2018

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