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NewCon Press is a UK independent publisher. Known for high quality anthologies containing work from some of the most notable Science Fiction and Fantasy authors working today.

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Myth-Understandings

Edited by Ian Whates

Paperback edition plus: 

A limited edition of 150 hardbacks, each copy individually numbered. 

 

An anthology of fifteen stories, fourteen original plus Gwyneth Jones’ World Fantasy Award winning story.  Tales of adventure and wonder, of humour and brooding darkness, of science fiction and fantasy.

 

Communication – such a hazardous undertaking; so easy to be misunderstood.

 

Released March 2008. 

219 pages

 

1.    Introduction – Ian Whates                                                          

Myth:

2.    Owl Speak – Storm Constantine

3.    Seaborne – Kari Sperring

4.    And Their Blood Will Be Prescient to Fire – Freda Warrington

5.    Do You See? – Sarah Pinborough

6.    Queen of the Sunlit Shore – Liz Williams

7.    Heart Song – Kim Lakin-Smith  

8.    The Grass Princess – Gwyneth Jones     

Understandings:

9.    Tales from the Big Dark: Found in the Translation – Pat Cadigan        

10.  TouchMe™: Keeping in Touch – Heather Bradshaw    

11.  We Shelter – Leigh Kennedy     

12.  Dinosaur – Deborah J. Miller      

13.  Further Orders – Elizabeth Priest           

14.  The Tollhouse – Claire Weaver   

15.  Body of Evidence – Justina Robson      

16.  The Ecologist and the Avon Lady – Tricia Sullivan       

 

Cover art by Anne Sudworth

Cover design by Andy Bigwood

 

BFS Awards 2009:

     Shortlisted for best small press publisher:  NewCon Press

     Shortlisted for best anthology:  Myth-Understandings

     Winner of best short story:  “Do You See?” – Sarah Pinborough

 

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Born in England in 1943, Ian Watson graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1963 with a first class Honours degree in English Literature, followed in 1965 by a research degree in English and French 19th Century literature. After lecturing in literature at universities in Tanzania and Tokyo, and in Futures Studies (including Science Fiction) in Birmingham, England, he became a full-time writer in 1976 following the success of his first novel, The Embedding (1973) which won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and in France the Prix Apollo, and The Jonah Kit (1975) which won the British Science Fiction Association Award and the Orbit Award.

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