Specialist independent press publishing award winning Science Fiction and Fantasy anthologies, novellas and short stories.
NewCon Press author Andrew Hook wins BFS award.
And God Created Zombies launched at FantasyCon
Do You See? by Sarah Pinborough wins BFA.
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.
AND GOD CREATED ZOMBIES Andrew Hook
The Gift of Joy Ian Whates
Starship Fall Eric Brown
The Beloved of my Beloved Ian Watson and Roberto Quaglia
Celebration An anthology themed on celebration and produced to commemorate the 50th birthday of the BSFA, containing all original stories from some of the biggest names in speculative fiction resident in the UK. Featuring: Pat Cadigan, Stephen Baxter , Ken MacLeod, Kim Lakin-Smith and many more. from £9.99
Anniversaries The Write Fantastic Cover art by Jim Mortimore To commemorate the fifth anniversary of The Write Fantastic, NewCon Press is proud to present an anthology of all new fiction from the current membership of The Write Fantastic. from £6.99
Orgasmachine The Long Lost Novel, which has achieved cult status in Japan Orgasmachine By Ian Watson With Illustrations by the late Judy Watson First ever English language edition Forget Stepford Wives; this goes way beyond anything seen in Stepford. from £9.99
The Unlikely World of Faraway Frankie By Keith Brooke With introduction by Adam Roberts. from £9.99
Conflicts Edited by Ian Whates Cover Art by Andy Bigwood Thirteen tales of human striving, of ingenuity, brilliance, desperate action, violence, and resolution. Thirteen tales of Conflict, of Science Fiction at its absolute best. from £9.99
The Bitten Word All New Tales of Vampiric Horror Edited by Ian Whates From modern suburbia to the baking deserts of Africa, from the foggy streets of old London to the grand homes of Antwerp, from an alternative world where vampires have ‘come out’ to vampirism among a society of sentient insects, from ravening hordes of the undead to skulking haunters of the night… Here There Be Vampires! from £9.99
The Push by Dave Hutchinson Introduction by Eric Brown A novella of human colonisation, of struggle and impossible choices. from £9.99
And God Created Zombies by Andrew Hook John Baker’s life keeps going from bad to worse. Against a background of global recession and financial meltdown, first he loses his job and then he loses his girlfriend Oh, and then, of course, there are the zombies… from £9.99
Starship Fall by Eric Brown Return to picturesque Magenta Bay on the colony world of Chalcedony, where David Conway’s idyllic life is about to be turned on its head by the arrival of a beautiful yet troubled stranger. from £9.99
Gift of Joy by Ian Whates Eighteen stories, five original to this collection; includes the BSFA Award shortlisted title story. from £9.99
The Beloved of my Beloved by Ian Watson and Roberto Quaglia Tattooed on a woman-sized tumour, these tales, told to it as bedtime stories, are by turns surreal, satiric, erotic, obscene, ingenious, hilarious, and quite, quite brilliant. Together, they combine to create a weird and wonderful love story, unlike anything told before. from £9.99
Subterfuge An anthology of original stories themed on ‘subterfuge’ – tales of subtlety, of misdirection and deceit, revealing secrets of the past and visions of the future; tales of alien worlds and to realms where magic holds sway… from £9.99
Myth-Understandings 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. from £9.99
In Storage A collaborative short story based on an idea by Ian Whates and written by Ian Whates, Chaz Brenchley, Hal Duncan, Andrew Hook, Sarah Singleton, Ian Watson, Andy West, Heather Bradshaw, Neil K. Bond, and Cardinal Cox from £2.99
disLOCATIONS An anthology of nine stories, eight original plus one previously uncollected, involving people removed from their normal environment, forced to operate outside of their comfort zone. from £10.99
Time Pieces An anthology of original stories, themed on ‘time’. from £9.99
Your cart is empty.
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.