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Time We Left (Hardcover)
Terry Grimwood, Allen Ashley, Sarah Doyle
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R895
Discovery Miles 8 950
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Measuring Day (Hardcover)
Rene Allen; Illustrated by Ashley Berensen
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R777
Discovery Miles 7 770
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Allen Ashley's tales of Urban Fantasy are intensely surreal,
savagely satirical, subtly subversive and despairingly funny.
Possessed of a unique vision and a distinctive prose style, Allen
Ashley exposes the absurdities of modern British society like no
other writer. Every waking moment is a struggle for continued
sanity and survival as we muddle thoughtlessly through this
surrealist joke called civilisation. The challenges - factual,
fictitious, mythical, eminently plausible - just keep on coming.
Ashley demonstrates that, if you have the nose for it, apocalypse
can be smelled everywhere - in the latest media circus; in the
latest dubious laws or government measures; in celebrity culture or
the surveillance state; in the mindsets and prejudices of the
population and in the tiniest actions we all perform.
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Haunts of Horror (Paperback)
David A. Sutton; Allen Ashley, Paul Finch, Gary Fry, Samantha Lee, …
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R595
R509
Discovery Miles 5 090
Save R86 (14%)
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Two heads are better than one! This collection brings together two
of the brightest stars in the science fiction, slipstream short
story firmament. The combined talents of Allen Ashley and Andrew
Hook have produced fourteen delicious, yet subtle, seamless stories
full of wit, imagination, invention and emotion. What is the secret
behind the gated community of "Xanadu Springs"? Will the online
pharmaceutical "Vitamin X" really guarantee you fifteen minutes of
fame? What is the best strategy to ensure victory at "Air Hockey
3000"? And can Lynsey the lowly "Abattoir Girl" successfully lead
the resistance against the alien invasion? Pass along Pohl and
Kornbluth; move over Maynard and Sims; forgetski the brothers
Strugatski. Ashley and Hook are the new noises on the block
Greetings, player, and prepare yourselves for a journey unlike any
other - a journey through the world of games. Enter a realm where a
man falls in love with a playing card and a game of Scrabble has
deadly consequences, a place where reality and virtual reality blur
into one and the same. In these pages, the moves of a chess piece
can signal the difference between life and death, rioting has
become a huge national sport and the players lose themselves in
games of their own devising. Featuring stories by Allen Ashley,
Adam Craig, Charlie Fish, Diotima Sophia, Sandra Unerman, Jay
Wilburn, Jason D Wittman and many more.
Allen Ashley (The Elastic Book of Numbers, Subtle Edens,
Catastrophia) returns to the anthology format with an ambitious
themed collection of stories based on the idea that the world we
live in is still something of an unknown planet, with spectacular
encounters, adventures and mysteries still very much possible. The
result is a collection of tales of urban decay and angst - jaunts
to unexpected and unexplained kingdoms - holidays and excursions to
strange and unnerving destinations. A familiar earth that's
slightly skewed - or maybe never was. This is a collection of
journeys of the imagination from some of the best authors in modern
Slipstream, SF, Fantasy and Horror.
Allen Ashley (The Elastic Book of Numbers, Subtle Edens,
Catastrophia) returns to the anthology format with an ambitious
themed collection of stories based on the idea that the world we
live in is still something of an unknown planet, with spectacular
encounters, adventures and mysteries still very much possible. The
result is a collection of tales of urban decay and angst - jaunts
to unexpected and unexplained kingdoms - holidays and excursions to
strange and unnerving destinations. A familiar earth that's
slightly skewed - or maybe never was. This is a collection of
journeys of the imagination from some of the best authors in modern
Slipstream, SF, Fantasy and Horror.
Allen Ashley's tales of Urban Fantasy are intensely surreal,
savagely satirical, subtly subversive and despairingly funny.
Possessed of a unique vision and a distinctive prose style, Allen
Ashley exposes the absurdities of modern British society like no
other writer. Every waking moment is a struggle for continued
sanity and survival as we muddle thoughtlessly through this
surrealist joke called civilisation. The challenges - factual,
fictitious, mythical, eminently plausible - just keep on coming.
Ashley demonstrates that, if you have the nose for it, apocalypse
can be smelled everywhere - in the latest media circus; in the
latest dubious laws or government measures; in celebrity culture or
the surveillance state; in the mindsets and prejudices of the
population and in the tiniest actions we all perform.
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