Sleeps With Angels

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I just checked, and I discovered that it’s a little over ten years since my last collection, As The Crow Flies, which came as a bit of a surprise. Where does the time go?

There was a time when I wrote nothing but short stories. A friend of mine, faced with my first novel, The Villages, said, “You know, you’re really a short story writer.” I’m still not certain what he meant by that. Anyway, the stories got longer and longer and fewer and fewer. Where I would once have been happy to wind up a story in two thousand words, I started to find there wasn’t enough room unless I had at least ten thousand to play with.

Sleeps With Angels is a collection of the previously uncollected. Some of the stories were published by the late and very much lamented SciFiction, others as part of anthologies and collections with other writers, one was self-published as an ebook, and one, “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi”, has never seen the light of day until now, apart from as a word file being sent to anyone who wanted to read it. It’s interesting that once upon a time all of these stories would have been in print at some point, but at least two of them have only ever existed in electronic form before this.

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