A
collection of short fiction spanning a decade of science fiction, fantasy and
horror.A
collection of short fiction spanning a decade of science fiction, fantasy and
horror.
Introduction by Eric Brown
"Witness" (first published in Interzone, 1993)
"Queen Bee" (Interzone, 1997; also available
online)
"The Greatest Game of all" (Interzone, 1990)
"Resting Place" (Interzone, 1998)
"Hotrider" (Aboriginal Science Fiction, 1991)
"Skin" (Peeping Tom, 1995)
"Queen of the Burn Plain" (Interzone, 1992)
"Easy Never Pays" (Interzone, 1994)
"Passion Play" (Other Edens III, 1989)
"Beside the Sea" (Beyond, 1995)
"Missing Time" (TomorrowSF, 1997)
".zipped" (Spectrum SF, 2000)
"Segue" (Interzone, 1998)
"Head Shots" (Odyssey, 1999)
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US trade paperback, Cosmos, July 2001 (ISBN: 1587153874)
"Queen Bee": complete story available online
"I have read 'Beside the Sea' perhaps four or five times... It's a story
I come back to again and again, and one which I wish I had written myself -
and there can be no greater recommendation than that."
(from the introduction by Eric Brown)
"Keith Brooke writes the kind of intelligent, empathic science fiction
that uses a variety of circumstances, including alien environments, genetic
modification and behaviour modifying drugs, to examine a range of human emotional
states ... While Brooke's exotic locations are colourful and well-imagined -
for example, Io's sulphur seas in 'Hotrider', or the alien volcano-scape in
'Queen Of The Burn Plain' - he really excels nearer to home. The most effective
stories here centre around his extrapolation of today's England, where technological
advances are consistently misused, and relationships abused."
(Neil Williamson, infinity plus)