Fables from the Fountain
Homage to Arthur C. Clarke's Tales from the White Hart
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A volume written as homage to Arthur C. Clarke's Tales from the White Hart, featuring original stories from many of today's top genre writers, including Neil Gaiman, Charles Stross, Stephen Baxter, James Lovegrove, Liz Williams, Adam Roberts, Eric Brown, Ian Watson, and David Langford.
The Fountain: a traditional London pub situated in Holborn, just off Chancery Lane, where Michael, the landlord, serves excellent real ales and dodgy ploughman's, ably assisted by barmaids Sally and Bogna.
The Fountain, in whose Paradise bar a group of friends - scientists, writers and genre fans - meet regularly on a Tuesday night to swap anecdotes, reveal wondrous events from their past, tell tall tales, talk of classified invention and, maybe, just maybe, save the world...
1. Introduction - Peter Weston
2. No Smoke without Fire - Ian Whates
3. Transients - Stephen Baxter
4. Forever Blowing Bubbles - Ian Watson
5. On the Messdecks of Madness - Paul Graham Raven
6. The Story Bug - James Lovegrove
7. "And Weep Like Alexander" - Neil Gaiman
8. The Ghost in the Machine - Colin Bruce
9. The Hidden Depths of Bogna - Liz Williams
10. A Bird in Hand - Charles Stross
11. In Pursuit of the Chuchunaa - Eric Brown
12. The Cyberseeds - Steve Longworth
13. Feathers of the Dinosaur - Henry Gee
14. Book Wurms - Andy West
15. The Pocklington Poltergeist - David Langford
16. The Last Man in Space - Andrew J Wilson
17. A Multiplicity of Phaedra Lament - Peter Crowther
18. The Girl With the White Ant Tattoo - Tom Hunter
19. The 9,000,000,001st Name of God - Adam Roberts
20. About the Authors
Neil Gaiman
NEIL GAIMAN was awarded the Newbery and Carnegie Medals for The Graveyard Book. His other books for younger readers include Coraline (which was made into an Academy-Award-nominated film) and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (which wasn’t). Born in England, he has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. You can learn more at www.mousecircus.com.
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Charles Stross
Charles Stross is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of seven Hugo-nominated novels and winner of three Hugo awards for best novella, two of which are part of the Laundry Files series, Stross's works have been translated into over twelve languages. As the owner of degrees in pharmacy and computer science, he graduated as the world's only academically qualified cyberpunk writer just as cyberpunk died. Today he describes his job as telling lies for money and tormenting his imaginary friends. Follow his blog at http://www.accelerando.org/ and his Twitter feed at @cstross.
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Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter is an acclaimed, multiple-award-winning author whose many books include the Xeelee Sequence series, the Time Odyssey trilogy (written with Arthur C. Clarke), and The Time Ships, a sequel to H. G. Wells's classic The Time Machine. He lives in England.
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