Book Review: The Edge of the Country by Trevor Denyer

Trevor Denyer’s debut short story collection has an evocative watercolour landscape on the cover, one that makes you think of that mysterious place suggested by the title. This sets the scene for the entire collection: stories that take pace on the edge of our reality. For the most part the stories occur in mundane settings, where strange things happen, or stranger things live. People are haunted by memories of the past, and premonitions of the future as Trevor Denyer’s finely-crafted prose invokes captivating images of poignancy.

Read the rest of my review at SF Crowsnest.

Note: This review should have appeared in last month's SF Crowsnest but the email was lost. :o(

Slipping into Slipstream

When I received the slipstream anthology Subtle Edens, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I’ve read the occasional slipstream story without coming to a definite conclusion about what it means. As I’ve been reading through I’ve realised that’s because there isn’t really a definition. For me it's anything that doesn’t fit into the other speculative fiction genres.

I’ve also realised that this means I’ve actually written some slipstream myself. Several of my flash fiction stories aren’t really science fiction and until now I didn’t know what they were.

Have a look at these ones, and see what you’d call them:

Another Year
Never Talk to Strangers