Eleven stories from the darkest reaches of Keith Brooke's imagination, each with a new afterword. Revisit the haunts of your youth, retell the story of your life, embrace your inner demons. Listen to the voices, go on...
'Keith Brooke is a wonderful writer. His great gift is taking us into worlds we never imagined...'
--Kit Reed
'Keith Brooke's prose achieves a rare honesty and clarity, his characters always real people, his situations intriguing and often moving.'
--Jeff VanderMeer
'in the recognized front ranks of SF writers.'
--Locus
About the Author
Keith Brooke's first novel, Keepers of the Peace , appeared in 1990, since when he has published seven more adult novels, six collections, and over 70 short stories. His novel Genetopia was first published in hardback by Pyr in February 2006 and was their first title to receive a starred review in Publishers Weekly ; The Accord , published by Solaris in 2009, received another starred PW review and was optioned for film.
His most recent novel, Harmony (published in the UK as alt.human), is a big exploration of aliens, alternate history and the Fermi paradox published by Solaris in 2012 and shortlisted for the Philip K Dick Award.
Writing as Nick Gifford, his teen fiction is published by Puffin, with one novel also optioned for the movies by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish's Caveman Films. He writes reviews for the Guardian , teaches creative writing at the University of Essex, and lives with his wife Debbie in Wivenhoe, Essex.