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Andrew Hook sees the world through a different lens. He takes often mundane things and coaxes the reader to find strangeness, beauty, and horror in their form; he colours the world in surreal shades and leads the reader down discomforting paths where nothing is quite as it should be.
Frequencies of Existence features twenty-four of the author's finest stories, including four that are original to this collection.
"Andrew Hook is an undisputed superstar of strange fiction" - Neil Williamson, author of The Moon King
"A rich slab of Andrew Hook's trademark understated darkness: measured, careful, but ruthless in its own quiet way." - Chris Beckett, Arthur C. Clarke and Edge Hill Prize-winning author.
"His stories range from the darkly apocalyptic to the hopefully visionary, some brilliant and none less than satisfactory." - The Harrow
"Refreshingly original, uncompromisingly provocative, and daringly intelligent" - The Future Fire
Contents:
Your Golden Hands
The Universe At Gun Point
Kodokushi
A Knot of Toads
The Abduction of Europe
The Aniseed Gumball Kid
Eskimo
The Last Mohican
Bullet
A Life In Plastic
Burning Daylight
Making Friends With Fold-Out Flaps
The Frequency of Existence
The Stench of Winter
A Pageant of Clouds
Always Forever Today
The Caged Sea
Interference
Softwood
My Naked Man
Tokyo In Rain
The Day My Heart Stood Still
Drowning In Air
White Matter
About the Author
Andrew Hook has had over a hundred and seventy short stories published, with several novels, novellas and collections also in print. Being a multi-genre writer, his stories have appeared in magazines ranging from Ambit to Interzone. Recent books include a collection of literary short stories, Candescent Blooms (Salt Publishing); Commercial Book (Psychofon Records): a collection of forty stories of exactly one thousand words in length inspired by the songs from the 1980 record "Commercial Album" by The Residents; and Secondhand Daylight, an SF time-travel novel co-written with Eugen Bacon.
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