Malcolm Twigg

Floater ... and other short stories (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Prison planets never had much going for them and when the prisoners themselves start running it you can expect it to go to Hell in a basket. That's why the Angel in 'Floater' is so good at his job, because he has to be. But he never expected that he would be so good as to be thought capable of sorting it all out. High powers did, however, much to his consternation.

Children the world over are much the same and 'Now Children' shows how kids in the classroom haven't changed over millennia, and no matter how advanced a civilisation, scratch a kid and there's a heathen just under the surface with an unhealthy leavening of racism thrown in.

In 'Smile Please' you're in line for a soul exchange unless you're very careful in this madcap exercise in bottling souls for posterity. Does it go wrong? Of course. It wouldn't be Eugene Budd if it didn't.

You might expect 'A Stitch in Time' to be something of a saviour, but then, you probably haven't factored in an officious robot programmed as only a bureaucratic nerd can where things don't belong unless they tick boxes.

An anthology of four short stories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Malcolm Twigg
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781458045249
• Artikelnr.: 74341480

Autorenporträt

Malcolm Twigg has been writing in some form or other for most of his adult life, much of it in local government circles where he put a bit more of the 'creative' element to writing minutes of meetings than was actually warranted. However, it kept the madness away.

He discovered science fiction at a very early age and started writing his first novel at the age of 18. He promptly consigned it to the bin and concentrated instead on reading stories by the legendary greats of Science Fiction who actually knew how to write, such as Fred Pohl and Algis Budrys. Both of those authors and many others he was later to meet when a short story he submitted for the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest got him into the finals of the contest, and a trip to Florida to boot.

A short time earlier, a novel had won the Peter Pook Humorous Novel competition in England (To Hell with the Harp!) and was published through Emissary Publishing (he was a second place winner the previous year). In that same year he had a small collection of science fiction stories published in Chapbook format by Piper's Ash and was also actively publishing in small press genre magazines and well as writing mainstream feature articles for various magazines.

Shortly after he attended the L. Ron Hubbard event, he was made redundant from local government and what should have turned into a burgeoning writing career took a bit of a left turn when he was (fortuitously) offered a position as launch editor for a local county magazine (Cornwall Life), followed by another magazine (Young at Heart) building upon a series of freelance articles published in Devon Life.

Under his unfailing leadership, both of those new titles folded within a few months (a fate that, alarmingly, befell a number of genre magazines as soon as they had published contributions from him). However, he was kept on as Chief Writer for Devon Life, went on to successfully launch Cornwall Life again and then Wiltshire Magazine, taking an already extant Wiltshire magazine head on and winning.

This second career left little time to pursue the more creative element however, leaving a number of unfinished works on the back burner for ten years or so, despite only working (ostensibly) part time.

He retired last year and started researching his family history. As always suspected, his wife seems to have married beneath her. Whereas her family history (purportedly) includes the Duke...