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In 2018 it was estimated that there were over 750 million spiders in the United Kingdom. By contrast, the overall number today is less than ten percent of that - but now the spiders live all around us. Today, the spiders are our neighbors. They live alongside us, coexist with us.
As us...
An intriguing, imaginative, and often unsettling short story set in a world where spiders and humans live together, Eight Over Four examines the problems which arise...
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While The Player Sleeps charts the story of a city where each and every inhabitant, as though the individual teeth of a single cog which drives a vast clockwork machine, functions selflessly for their one ultimate master:
THE PLAYER
For, as we would understand it, this is the city of the video game - the urban sandbox, an open world simulation, and the inhabitants are merely the actors upon a digitized stage.
Existing solely for the entertainment...
3) The Colour
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The color was everything that made existence worthwhile, distilled into a single hue. It was magnificent. It was affirming. It was all that mattered and all that one would ever need.
'It was like... it was... it was impossible to describe without seeing for oneself...'
In this unnerving short story from Scott Tierney, discover the origins of The Color, its effects on an unsuspecting world, and the future it creates.
4) Clump
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At the end of the 19th century a strange and unexplained medical phenomenon starts to occur - people being to 'clump' together. What starts out as two individuals conjoined at the skin soon snowballs into groups of three, four, and upwards. How large can these clumps grow? And when, if at all, will the clumping stop?
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Strange Times compiles ten short stories of fantasy, science-fiction and wonder, ranging from the darkly comical Eight Over Four, set in a world which is overpopulated with giant human-sized spiders; to the altogether more thought-provoking Outlawry, where radical new laws result in a dystopian hotbed of opportunism, for the punishment for crime is now crime itself.
Also included are two previously unpublished stories exclusive to this collection:...
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In this short story set with the world of sci-fi novel Tomorrow is Another year, Michael awakes to find future London beset in the fever of a vast festival. Little does he know that the reasons behind the festival, and the mysterious 'Pause' which is due to follow thereafter, are less than joyful...
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Have you ever seen beauty? I mean real beauty?
In this short story set during the daily commute on a 1950's era train trolley, beauty is the leading light which makes all of life's struggles worthwhile - although some only see this light as something to be extinguished...
9) Outlawry
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"If any civilization strives to be prosperous and remain civilized then crime must always lead to punishment - and today the punishment is crime..."
In a near-future where the punishment for any crime is Outlawry - where the outlaw is cast out from the protection of the state and left to fend for themselves - a Lawman goes on the hunt for a prized and valuable outlaw. Yet as the night unfolds, the fine line between Lawman and Outlaw soon begins to...
