I 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. :-)

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