We’re very happy to report that two new collection of Ian R. MacLeod‘s short fiction are now available! Both are published via the JABberwocky eBook Program, and are out now. Read on for more details.
Here’s the synopsis for the first collection, EVERYWHERE (cover above)…
Welcome to the first half of the collected worlds of one of fiction’s great myth-makers. Blending naturalistic settings with real — and unreal — histories, dark presents, strange pasts and star-flung futures, Ian R. MacLeod’s multi award-winning stories defy easy classification, but are always vividly elegant, compelling, and filled with wonder.
In Grownups, a young boy discovers the strange facts of life in a very different — yet also alarmingly recognizable — world, whilst New Light on the Drake Equation focusses on one man’s quest to prove there is still a chance of intelligent life existing beyond Earth, and in Ephemera a very strange librarian has final charge of all the world’s knowledge and culture, and The Master Miller’s Tale tells of obsessive love as a bucolic past dissolves into the magics of industry, iron and steam.
… and the companion anthology, NOWHERE…
Welcome to the second half of the collected worlds of one of fiction’s great myth-makers. Blending naturalistic settings with real — and unreal — histories, dark presents, strange pasts and star-flung futures, Ian R. MacLeod’s multi award-winning stories defy easy classification, but are always vividly elegant, compelling, and filled with wonder.
In The Chop Girl, a young working at a World War Two RAF bomber airbase discovers the true meaning of luck, whilst The Discovered Country projects a world in which the dead enjoy an endless afterlife whilst the merely living struggle to survive, and The Visitor from Taured twists a modern urban myth into a tale of one man’s search for a Theory Of Everything, and Snodgrass tells a very different version of the Beatles’ rise to fame.
JABberwocky has published a number of other acclaimed titles by Ian, too: RED SNOW, WAKE UP AND DREAM, SONG OF TIME, THE GREAT WHEEL, THE SUMMER ISLES, and the two novels in the Aether Universe series — THE LIGHT AGES and THE HOUSE OF STORMS.
