Frost on glass /
"A famous, creatively-blocked, novelist faces exile or execution unless he can write a new story in the title novella of this collection, and the theme of writing threads through the pages of the entire book. As well as eleven dazzling stories that explore strange pasts and new futures, there a...
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Hornsea, England :
PS Publishing Ltd,
2015.
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| Edition: | Uncorrected proof copy. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: don't look back
- FICTION. The discovered country ; Afterword: silver machines
- Hector Douglas makes a sale ; Afterword: a cul-de-sac in Los Angeles
- The cold step beyond ; Afterword: the future isn't real
- A concise and ready guide ; Afterword: bloody dragons
- Re-crossing the Styx ; Afterword: on being dark
- The traveller and the book ; Afterword: on writing rubbish
- The crane method ; Afterword: rejection
- Letter to Will ; Afterword: those who can't ...
- Tumbling Nancy ; Afterword: other writers
- Frost on glass ; Afterword: writer's block
- Entangled ; Afterword: volcanoes and dinosaurs.
- NON-FICTION. Foreword: different warts and all
- A truncated life in Books
- An empty grey cell of one's own
- Sad songs, with lots of drumming
- I've got the idea for a story ...
- The decline of the English ghost story
- Me and the mushroom cloud.