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The Collector rampages across a far future Africa populated with gene-spliced vampires, resurrected mammoth, and nutters with APWs. But being the bastard offspring of Bruce Willis and the Terminator he can handle it.
Africa Zero first published (serialized) in
Threads (First rung Publications) issues 4, 5 & 6 in '94.
An original Gordon McGregor Paperback in the Club 199 series. Jason Carroll, an ex SAS man and contract killer, is convinced he will die in action. It is thus embarrassing when he is run over by a bus. It is even more embarrassing when he, an atheist, discovers there is an afterlife ... Resurrected on an endless flat plain he is forced to play a deadly game. Moved as a pawn at the whim of the gods in a fight to the death with warriors from all ages of Earth's history. Killed again only to be resurrected again … and again.
‘Anybody
who cares about the future of British literary SF should check it out’ – SFX. ‘Top
quality SF from one of the genre’s hotshot new talents’ – Dragon’s
Breath. ‘High
grade SF’ – Tony Lee.
He evades quarantine with deceptive ease. On Earth he has dealings with the Sao Paulo underworld and leaves death behind him. On his trail is the indefatigable Chris Golem, and someone else who will go to any lengths to hide the truth about Jack Set in a future of military takeovers, rising sea levels, and satellite industries and weapons, this is a story of high tech subterfuge and violence which asks what it is to be human. And what might humans become?
THE ENGINEER: Leading novella in the Tanjen collection The Engineer, to be published as a limited edition from Cosmos books and to appear in The Engineer Reconditioned collection (cover design: Gary Nurrish).
THE HALFMAN'S CELLAR: Received 'honourable mention' in the Writers of the future contest in '91. Was published in Elizabeth Counihan's Scheherazade issues 13 & 14 in '94. SNOW IN THE DESERT: (11,000 words) Snow is an albino, immortal, very dangerous, and someone wants his bollocks. Spectrum SF 8 (2002), David G Hartwell's & Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best SF 8 (June 2003), and to be published in the Czech SF magazine Ikarie.
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