Critiques en avant-premièreChris Beckett

Have you ever wondered what the fairy tales of alien cultures are like? For hundreds of years scholars and writers have collected and retold folk and fairy stories from around our world. They are not alone. On distant planets alien chroniclers have done the same; for just as our world is steeped in legends and half-remembered truths of the mystic and the magical, so are theirs. Now, for the first time, we can share some of these tales with you… 1. Introduction – David Gullen 2. The Little People – Una McCormack 3. Lost in the Rewilding – Paul Di Filippo 4. Goblin Autumn – Adrian Tchaikovksy 5. Myths of Sisyphus – Allen Ashley 6. The Land of Grunts and Squeaks – Chris Beckett 7. The Blood Rose – Susan Oke 8. Starfish – Liz Williams 9. The Raveller’s Tale – Neil Williamson 10. The Tiny Traveller – Aliya Whiteley 11. The Tale of Suyenye the Wise, the Ay, and the People of the Shining Land – Gaie Sebold 12. Wanderlust – Kim Lakin-Smith 13. Pale Sister – Jaine Fenn 14. Alpha42 and the Space Hermits – Stephen Oram 15. The Teller and the Starborn – Peter Sutton 16. The Winternet – Ian Whates 17. The Awakening – Bryony Pearce 18. About the Authors Available as a Kindle, ePub or pdf.

When a mysterious drug called slip breaks down the boundaries of time, Charles, an immigration officer, and his girlfriend Jaz decide to crossover to another universe to save their own world from degenerating into tyranny. Original.

ABOUT THIS BOOK... “We speak of a mother’s love, but we forget her power.” Civilization has come to the alien, sunless planet its inhabitants call Eden. Just a few generations ago, the planet’s five hundred inhabitants huddled together in the light and warmth of the Forest’s lantern trees, afraid to venture out into the cold darkness around them. Now, humanity has spread across Eden, and two kingdoms have emerged. Both are sustained by violence and dominated by men – and both claim to be the favored children of Gela, the woman who came to Eden long ago on a boat that could cross the stars, and became the mother of them all. When young Starlight Brooking meets a handsome and powerful man from across Worldpool, she believes he will offer an outlet for her ambition and energy. But she has no inkling that she will become a stand-in for Gela herself, and wear Gela’s fabled ring on her own finger—or that in this role, powerful and powerless all at once, she will try to change the course of Eden’s history. ABOUT THIS AUTHOR... Chris Beckett is a university lecturer living in Cambridge, England. His short stories have appeared in such publications as Interzone and Asimov’s Science Fiction and in numerous “year’s best” anthologies.

On the alien, sunless planet they call Eden, the 532 members of the Family shelter beneath the light and warmth of the Forest’s lantern trees. Beyond the Forest lie the mountains of the Snowy Dark and a cold so bitter and a night so profound that no man has ever crossed it. The Oldest among the Family recount legends of a world where light came from the sky, where men and women made boats that could cross the stars. These ships brought us here, the Oldest say—and the Family must only wait for the travelers to return. But young John Redlantern will break the laws of Eden, shatter the Family and change history. He will abandon the old ways, venture into the Dark…and discover the truth about their world. Already remarkably acclaimed in the UK, Dark Eden is science fiction as literature; part parable, part powerful coming-of-age story, set in a truly original alien world of dark, sinister beauty--rendered in prose that is at once strikingly simple and stunningly inventive.