Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Vivisepulture

Here we go. Andy Remic contacted me about maybe submitting a story to Vivisepulture. Now, I don't really have any Polity related short stories that haven't already been published somewhere, but I do still have a few nasties in my files, so I sent him one called Plastipak. You'll find the kindle version here. I'm told:

The official release date is 20th December, and the antho will be going out for the special Christmas price of £0.99p (to try and get it up those Amazon charts!!). On 26th December it will revert to £1.99.

                                  Edited by Andy Remic and Wayne Simmons
Welcome to our anthology, a collection of weird and bizarre tales of twisted imagination by Neal Asher, Tony Ballantyne, Eric Brown, Richard Ford, Ian Graham, Lee Harris, Colin Harvey, Vincent Holland-Keen, James Lovegrove, Gary McMahon, Stan Nicholls, Andy Remic, Jordan Reyne, Ian Sales, Steven Savile, Wayne Simmons, Guy N. Smith, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Jeffrey Thomas, Danie Ware, Ian Watson and Ian Whates. Artwork by Vincent Chong.
The anthology is dedicated to the late Colin Harvey, with great affection.
In the tradition of Poe, Kafka, Borges and H. G. Wells, this collection of weird stories are written with the primary drive of presenting twisted deviations of normality. Whether it's the deviant factory workers of Neal Asher's Plastipak™ Limited, the pus-oozing anti-cherub of Ian Graham's Rotten Cupid, the acid-snot disgorging freak of Andy Remic's SNOT, or Ian Watson's alternate zombie-crucifixion, each story will drag your organs up through your oesophagus and give your brain a chilli-fired beating.
• WEIRD TALES
• DISTURBING CONCEPTS
• DEVIATED BLACK HUMOUR
• NO GENRE LEFT UNGOUGED
Vivisepulture is an EBOOK original anthology edited by Andy Remic and Wayne Simmons. Vivisepulture can be purchased from www.anarchy-books.com in PDF, EBOOK and MOBI formats.
EPUB versions can also be read on your PC/MAC by installing Adobe’s Digital Editions for free. Check out: www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/

16 comments:

j purdie said...

For 99 pence it's got to be worth a punt. Looking forward to reading your story. I also like Ian Watson's short stories so that's something else to look forward to. Guy N Smith! Not heard that name for ages. I remember reading his horror novels in the 80s.

Matt said...

Add another two purchases, showed it to a fellow SF nut at work today.

Could do with a review on Amazon, I may get around to it after I read a few stories, got to finish another book first.

Roger Schweingruber said...

going to get that as well... as a side note - I tried to get Runcible Tales - no chance :( Some guys are selling it on Amazon at a price over 200 dollars *shocked*
http://www.amazon.com/Runcible-Tales-Writer-Future-Asher/dp/1902628241/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324560425&sr=8-1

Roger Schweingruber said...

I just LOVE One-Click-Buy :)

Neal Asher said...

Check here for copies of runcible tales: http://supamasu.co.uk/

Roger Schweingruber said...

I think they are out of business :(

After some 40 years promoting new authors, we regret to say that we are now closing down our business. We wish new authors every success in the future with new publishers

Neal Asher said...

Well damn, he didn't tell me. This means I can rework Runcible Tales and publish it myself, or maybe use the stories from it plus some extras in a collection.

Roger Schweingruber said...

well, that means you can put it on kindle ;-) 1 buyer guaranteed ;-)

Phil M said...

Cheers Neal,look forward to Runcible Tales as well. Any thoughts on Masons Rats on Kindle?

Neal Asher said...

Maybe a collection with Runcible Tales, Mason's Rats and a few others. There're some stories out there that have yet to appear in a collection - stuff like Owner Space and Shell Game (in Dozois anthologies) and one or two early ones from various small press mags.

Roger Schweingruber said...

I would like to see that. Another question to that accord - how did the Spatterjay Audiobooks do on audible? I would really like to see/hear more audiobooks from you since I'm travelling around 2 - 3 hours a day. Any news on the audiobook front?

Neal Asher said...

Roger, Wildside press are talking to Audible about The Engineer ReConditioned. If I have any news on that I'll put a post up.

Neal Asher said...

Oh, and there's stuff of mine on http://www.starshipsofa.com/

Roger Schweingruber said...

well thanks Neal. Here is the link for anyone interested.

http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2009/07/15/aural-delights-no-93-neal-asher/

I just donated €5 to the site, I don't know if you get any royalties on it but I think it's prudent to support SF sites ;-)

Btw. the introduction is quite a challenge for a Swiss guy - what is that? Scottish?

Phil M said...

He sounds like a Geordie to me Roger, that is someone from Newcastle, NE Englandshire. Even we Scots need subtitles for those folks!

Roger Schweingruber said...

Well, does not matter, updated my parser over night and getting the hang of it - I JUST LOVE this patois :)