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Rites of Passage Eric Brown
Rites of Passage gathers four long stories, one of which is original to the collection. “Bartholomew Burns and the Brain Invaders” features a Victorian London facing the threat of alien invasion and the… More
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The Bone Flute Lisa Tuttle
infinity plus singles #7 [Nov 2011]
Venn, a fickle and restless young musician, is drawn to the “lost planet” of Habille where, it is said, human nature has changed, and love once experienced can never die.… More
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Deep Future Eric Brown
Deep Future collects ten tales of the past, present and future by the award-winning author of the best selling Helix. Whether he’s writing about aliens coming to Earth, virtual reality, alternate worlds or immortal… More
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Closet Dreams Lisa Tuttle
“Something terrible happened to me when I was a little girl…” so begins this extraordinary, International Horror Guild Award-winning tale of abduction, survival and escape from the author Stephen… More
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The Death of Cassandra Quebec Eric Brown
infinity plus singles #8 [Nov 2011]
Cassandra Quebec: an artist who had shown the world her soul. At the height of her career she was the world’s most celebrated artist; a year later she was dead. And now… … More
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The Sculptor Garry Kilworth
An artist pays tribute to a cruel and powerful leader. Cunning and elegant short fiction from an author whose “Sumi Dreams of a Paper Frog” was described by JG Ballard as “The best short story I have… More
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Lizard Lust Lisa Tuttle
“They say that the sight of a lizard drives a woman wild with desire. Any woman, any lizard, the merest glimpse. But lizards belong to men; theyメre death to women.” An ordinary woman is torn from her normal… More
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The Time-Lapsed Man Eric Brown
infinity plus singles #3 [Oct 2011]
Emerging from flux after three months of mind-pushing a starship through the nada-continuum, Thorn realised he could not hear. He was on his second drink, an hour later, when a sound… More
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Valley of the Sugars of Salt Anna Tambour
Tim Thornbourne, successful in business but not in marriage, retreats to the country to grow gourmet and largely forgotten fruit. In time his orchard would become a Mecca for foodies and he, Tim Thornbourne, would be… More
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Head Shots Keith Brooke
infinity plus singles #4 [Oct 2011]
What if the paparazzi could read their targets’ minds? Anna-Louise is a young and ambitious reporter, on the trail of an adulterous footballer, trying to hear through the mind… More
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The Life Business John Grant
infinity plus singles #6 [Nov 2011]
With astonishing power, award-winning author John Grant portrays the human facility to falsify history, using as his backdrop the beginnings of the late-20th-century troubles… More
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Jurassic and the Great Tree Keith Brooke
We come to Pavonis Minor, invited by the Burul’chasi, descendants of the first wave of human settlement. They have successfully resisted intrusion into their territories for many years, yet now they want someone… More
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Picking Blueberries Anna Tambour
infinity plus singles #10 [Nov 2011]
A powerfully evocative portrait of an alternative community in the early 1970s, told with a child’s-eye simplicity by a young resident. Short fiction from an author whose… More
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One Step Closer Iain Rowan
infinity plus singles #1 [Oct 2011]
Life jumps the rails, runs away from you and there’s no catching it up. Not ever. A free short story from Iain Rowan, winner of the Derringer Award for best short crime story. “I… More
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Old Soldiers Kit Reed
infinity plus singles #5 [Oct 2011]
In the room across the hall the old soldier shouts, just as he has done for years… And behind her, something in the shadows stirs. “One of our brightest cultural commentators”… More
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Memories of the Flying Ball Bike Shop Garry Kilworth
Understand the one you hate. What did the old Chinese man smoke? He smoked his enemy, and when he had smoked the hated man he would know him. “The best short story writer in any genre” (New Scientist).… More