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The Dogstar and Other Science Fiction Stories
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Format: Demy
138 Pages
ISBN: 9781905599370
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When I was a little kid, my mother told me that at the hottest time of the year you could see a star even when the sun was out. She called it the Dogstar, and it was the brightest one in the sky. Some days, the Dogstar’s heat and the sun would combine to make the asphalt and dust bake like flour, and that’s why we call those days the dog days. It’s bullshit, of course. I’ve looked at the sky a billion times and I’ve never seen a star in the daylight.’ – Extract from ‘The Dogstar’
The Dogstar and Other Stories contains the ten winning entries from the Leaf Books Science Fiction and Fantasy Competition. They cover subjects as diverse and imaginative as a lone astronaut’s desperate universe-wide search for another sentient being, a tailor’s affair with the mystical Lady who comes to heal his plague-ridden town and a man who says sorry and starts to fly. A more fantastical collection of stories you could never hope to encounter, not even in an infinite series of parallel universes. The competition was judged by the Leaf Team.
Our thanks to all who entered.
Contents:
Winner:
'The Dogstar'
Kathy Kachelries
Runner-Up:
'The Glass Tower'
S. K. Thompson
Commended:
'Lady of the Plagues'
Elana Gomel
'A Question of Madness'
Anthony Howcroft
'Charlie and the Letting Go'
Michael Hulme
'Meal Deal'
Mona McKinlay
'A Good Mother'
T. Rawson
'Pretty Boy'
Tracey S. Rosenberg
'The Tycoon'
Sally Quilford
'Time of Death'
Robert Wilton
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