"The stories in this collection are among the best science fiction.
These are stories imbued with a rich intelligence and a deep sense of humanity.
These are mature stories, tales of love and loss, of pleasure and pain. Cherish
them."
- from the foreword by Stephen Baxter
The first edition of Parallax View was published in 2000 in a limited edition hardback by Sarob Press. This collected together all of the Brooke/Brown collaborations, plus a couple of solo stories.
April 2007 saw publication of a new edition, dropping the solo stories and adding a new novella, "In Transit", written exclusively for Parallax View. This print edition is heading out of print, but the ebook edition appeared in January 2010.
Parallax View is available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, or direct from the publishers, Immanion Press. The ebook edition is available from Smashwords.
On the press release it says: "Parallax View showcases the previously unpublished Novella 'In Transit', set in a future war-torn universe in which human expansion has come up against the implacable Kryte. Xeno-psychologist Abbott finds himself the guardian of a deadly Kryte on a mission to study it on his return to Earth. When the crash-land on the fortress planet of St Jerome, the Kryte prisoner turns the tables and takes Abbott into terrible custody. What follows is a terrifying journey across a hellish landscape towards a finale that might change the destiny of the Kryte and humanity, forever..."
"Individually, Keith Brooke and Eric Brown purvey SF of the highest order:
their stories have epic scope and a huge heart. The fusion of their talents
is a sublime alchemy, a seamless pageant of humanity and wonder, eloquently
expressed."
"A stunning cluster of sf parables ... Brooke and Brown possess the world-building
ability of Frank Herbert, the same capacity for extrapolation and black humour
that marked Philip K Dick's work and a social conscience to rival that of Orwell's
...to view this book is to view science fiction at its very best."
"...the oleagenous antelope-men of 'The Denebian Cycle' scitter through
an overpoweringly fragrant -- and literally explosive -- maquis forest: we haven't
seen this level of ecological chutzpah since Stableford ... Brown and Brooke
write genre fiction very well indeed."
"What's evident throughout the collection is the authors' not inconsiderable
skill in taking traditional sfnal themes and, by and large, successfully reworking
them for a modern audience ... two writers whose respective styles happily complement
each other ... The best of them recall short fiction writers of the calibre
of Bob Shaw and Michael Coney and that, you don't need me to tell you, is No
Bad Thing."
"The eight stories in Eric Brown and Keith Brooke's Parallax View may span a galaxy of wonders, but they focus (as Stephen Baxter notes in his introduction to the collection) squarely on the human soul... Brooke and Brown's work has a real sweep to it, and if you're looking to recapture that sadly clichéd sensation of a sense of wonder, this anthology will not disappoint."