THE GIFT OF JOY (Signed (Hardcover) Ian Whates

CONDITION VERY GOOD

AUTHOR: IAN WHATES
CATEGORY SCIENCE FICTION

PUBLISHER NEWCON PRESS 1ST EDITION. 2009. SIGNED BY IAN WHATES & IAN WATSON. NO 18/150

ISBN NO: 978-907069-00-0

SYNOPSIS

Eighteen stories, five original to this collection plus thirteen that have appeared previously in various venues, including both pieces featured in the science journal Nature and the BSFA Award shortlisted title story. Eighteen tales that take you to distant futures & disturbing tomorrows, to strange new worlds & others that may seem uncomfortably familiar.

• 1. Introduction ~ Ian Watson
• 2. The Gift of Joy
• 3. A Hint of Mystery
• 4. The Key
• 5. Gossamer
• 6. In Fear of Fog
• 7. One Night in London
• 8. Ghosts in the Machine
• 9. Knowing How to Look
• 10. The Sum of the Past
• 11. Flesh & Metal
• 12. Hanging on Her Every Word
• 13. The Final Hour
• 14. Darkchild
• 15. A Piratical Sabbatical
• 16. Glitch in the System
• 17. The Battle for Paradise
• 18. Its About Time!
• 19. The Laughter of Ghosts

Planetary escapades & vivid battle action rub shoulders with charming yet eerie rural tales & with perilous urban nightmares. Ian Watson

Ian Whates has a way with words & a storyteller's sensibility Definitely one to watch. Jon Courtenay Grimwood.

Darkly funny tales of the unexpected, with a deft science-fictional turn of the knife. Ken MacLeod

It is his characters who live through the story & make the reader need to know just how its all going to pan out, human characters who may seem familiar but then theres that one thing, that shifted alteration that changes the world & changes the reader too. Michael Cobley in Interzone.