Visit ancient Rome, lunar settlements, and alien worlds. Meet zombies and vampires, mermen, dragons, and demons. Experience nano technology and watch history happen from a time machine.
Barbara Davies explores the spectrum of speculative fiction in this collection of entertaining and thought-provoking stories.
Into the Yellow — Lone Wolf — Morris Dancing — Cordie and the Merman — Caverns of the Heart — Babalawo’’s Drum — High Flyer — Journey to Niskor — Time and the Maid — Throwback — A Question of Gender — The House on the Via Aurelia — Dog and Kat — The Creature in the Cut — Demonsbane
“While her style is unconventional and her voice singed by sarcasm, Davies plies the English language and tames it into submission. Her writing is vivid and clear, bringing the story into focus with bright colors and sharp images.” – Donna Watkins, Tangent Online
Mindancer Press
216 pp. ● 5.5×8.5
$12.95 (Pb) ● $6.95 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-939562-18-0 (pb)
FICTION – Fantasy – Contemporary
FICTION – Science Fiction – General
FICTION – Short Stories (single author)
Barbara Davies was born in Birmingham, England, twenty minutes after her twin sister. She grew up in the Midlands, managed to scrape a BA from York University, worked in computing in Surrey, then moved to Gloucestershire where she’s now a writer and a book reviewer for Starburst. Barbara published her first short story in 1994. Since then, more than forty of her stories have appeared in various genre magazines, including Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Khimairal Ink, Neo-Opsis, and nanobison, and in the anthologies Ideomancer Unbound, Crossings, and F/SF Volume 1. The readers of Kimota gave one of her stories their 1999 Best Story Award.