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Night Shift, Stephen King

Published by PS Publishing Ltd, 2017

“‘- but it's not such a bad idea to be on nodding acquaintance with it. These days...I don't know... no one wants to talk about it or think about it, it seems. They took it off the TV because they thought it might hurt the children some way - hurt their minds - and people want closed coffins so they don't have to look at the remains or say goodbye… it just seems like people want to forget it.’

'And at the same time they brought in the cable TV with all those movies showing people - ‘ Jud looked at Norma and cleared his throat, ‘- showing people doing what people usually do with their shades pulled down,’ he finished. ‘Queer how things change from one generation to the next, isn't it?'

‘Yes,’ Louis said. 'I suppose it is.’

‘Well, we come from a different time,’ Jud said, sounding almost apologetic. ‘We was on closer terms with death. We saw the flu epidemic after the Great War, and mothers dying with child, and children dying of infection and fevers that it seems like doctors just wave a magic wand over these days. In the time when me and Norma was young, if you got cancer, why, that was your death-warrant, right there. No radiation treatments back in the 1920s! Two wars, murders, suicides…’

He fell silent for a moment.

‘We knew it as a friend and as an enemy,’ he said finally.

WebFind: We Are The Martians – The Legacy of Nigel Kneale

If you have access to BBC iPlayer, then you may already know the broadcaster’s 1958 serial Quatermass and the Pit is available to watch right now for free – and a terrific piece of vintage SFTV it is too.

Running over six Monday evenings between December 1958 and January 1959, the series, starred André Morell as Professor Quatermass, the third actor to take the role.

(Morell had previously…

Walking With Ghosts, my first full-length short story collection, will be published later this summer by the amazing folks at PS Publishing!

The incredible team at PS Publishing has created a book trailer for the collection, which you can view here on YouTube:

(Reminder: my  “Level 6” and “Level 7” supporters on Patreon will automatically receive botheditions of this book from my personal…

As I mentioned last week, my first full-length short story collection, which has been more than 20 years in the making, will be published later this summer by the amazing team at PS Publishing.

Vincent Chong created the incredible artwork, and thanks to his efforts and the hard work of PS Publishing designer Michael Smith, Walking With Ghosts will be a truly beautiful book. I really cannot wait…

Book review of No Traveller Returns by Paul Park and Mayflower II by Stephen Baxter

This review of No Traveller Returns by Paul Park and Mayflower II by Stephen Baxter was written in 2004 for the British Science Fiction Association‘s magazine, Vector. Mayflower II, PS Publishing, 2004, Paperback, 88pp, £10.00, ISBN 1 904619 16 9 No Traveller Returns, PS Publishing, 2004, Paperback, 74pp, £10.00, ISBN 1 904619 02 9 Here are two refreshingly brief new novellas from PS Publishing,…