Visionary Tongue
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Founder and original editor Storm Constantine has revisited every issue of the ground-breaking magazine Visionary Tongue to select the very best stories and poems to appear in its pages across a twelve year period, more than thirty in all, including early stories from some of the UK genre scene's biggest names.
Introduction: Giving Voice to the Visionary Tongue - Storm Constantine
A Photocopier and a Giant Stapler - Louise Coquio
The Sin Taker - Katherine Roberts
Pumpkin Man - David Rain
Tides - Tanya Brown
The Gift of Flight - Eden Crain
In That Unquiet Earth - Chris Amies
Mad Love - Ray Girvan
A Traveller Meets One of the Minotaur's Younger Brothers - Justina Robson
The Bull Leapers - Justina Robson
A Tale from the End of the World - Fiona McGavin
See You Later - Suzanne Gyseman
Ptolemy's Recording - Jamie Spracklen
Finding Mary - Tim Lebbon
The Arena - Lachesis January
The King of Hearts & the Jack of Frowns - Jason Gould
Succubus - Chris Green
Dancing Day - Liz Williams
Storm - Sian Kingstone
Deities - Austin McCarron
The House by the Lake - Lisa Pallin
Awakening - Isabel Taylor
The Satanic Sex Machines of Dr Zhinn - William Eve
An Angel's Effigy - Dylan Kinnett
Sympathy for the Devil - Paul Whyte
Forgotten Sounds - Simon Williams
Luncheon with the Last of a Kind - Colin James
Féa - Janine Jones
The Magus of Inner London - Austin McCarron
Collector of Broken Things - Lauren Halkon
Toe in Water, Hand in Flame - Brian Maycock
What You Came For - Jaine Fenn
The Heroic Acts of Strangers - Ian Whates
Chess - David Graham
Casamundi - Douglas Thompson
The Lady of the Fog - J. H. Fleming
Mother Mary - A. N. Calaway
Appendix 1: Lex Visionaria - Jamie Spracklen
Appendix 2: The Female Fool - Donna Scott
About the Contributors
Tim Lebbon
Tim Lebbon has written more than forty horror, dark fantasy, and tie-in novels, including The Silence, Relics, Kong: Skull Island, and the Noreela fantasy series. He’s also written hundreds of novellas and short stories, winning several prestigious awards, and has had his work optioned and made for the big screen. He lives in Monmouthshire, UK.
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Justina Robson
Justina Robson is the UK author of thirteen science fiction and fantasy novels and many short stories. In addition to her original works, including a novel set in the Catt and Fisher universe - Salvation's Fire - she has also written The Covenant of Primus, the 'bible' of The Transformers. She has tutored for the Arvon Foundation and been an awards judge for the Arthur C Clarke Award. She sometimes works as a freelance developmental editor. Visit www.justinarobson.co.uk or follow @JustinaRobson on Twitter.
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