Alt-ernate: A Collection of 37 Stories - Softcover

Harding-Shaw, Melanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0473570890 ISBN 13: 9780473570897

Publisher: Melanie Harding-Shaw, 2021

Synopsis

"A deliciously thought-provoking, evocative, and spine-tingling collection." – Cassie Hart, author of Butcherbird

There are places where the boundaries are thin and a step off the path could take you further than you meant to go.

Step off the path and submerge yourself in 37 stories that explore alternate realities, presents, and futures through science fiction, fantasy and horror. Dip your eyes into ethereal worlds, discomfiting climate-fiction, heart-ache inducing near and far-flung futures, and the creepy darkness that shadows humanity.

Alt-ernate is the debut collection from Melanie Harding-Shaw, alternating between bite-sized micro-fiction and longer short stories, it includes five never-before-published works as well as the first novelette in the Censored City trilogy, Would She Be Gone.

Table of Contents:
AN AVIAN INTRODUCTION
STRANDS OF OUR TOMORROWS
LOVE NOTE
A DEVOTED HUSBAND
SHE WAS NO WITCH
UNREQUITED SONATA
GREEN IS MORE THAN SKIN DEEP
THE FISHER
BIG BROTHER
WOULD SHE BE GONE
A SQUASH OF COMMUTERS
A NEW COLD WAR
LIVE UNDERGROUND
GAC ATG ATT ACA
TIME EXPLOSION
IRONY
BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
COMMON DENOMINATOR
ONLY CHILD
REVOLUTIONS
INDENTURE IS A NERVOUS SYSTEM
THE GIFT OF TIME
A GALACTIC SYMPHONY
RETOUCHED
THE GENESIS OF INTERDIMENSIONAL TRAVEL
THE SIX STAGES OF REVENGE
RADIO SILENCE
A FAIRY TALE
LOVE CAGE
THE ENEMY WITHIN
TEPID
AN EYE FOR AN EYE
WHEN SUPERMARKETS GO BAD
A SECOND CHANCE
MOTHER CEPHALOPODA
SYNAESTHETE
SEE ME

About this title

About the Author

Melanie Harding-Shaw is a speculative fiction writer, policy geek, and mother-of-three from Wellington, New Zealand. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction and The Best of British Fantasy 2019. She won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in 2020. You can find her at: www.MelanieHardingShaw.com Facebook @MelanieHardingShawWriter Twitter @MelHardingShaw

Edition details

• Publisher: Melanie Harding-Shaw
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0473570890
• ISBN 13: 9780473570897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 231