Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories

Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories

From award-winning author Lynda Clark come sixteen engrossing stories weaving together elements of folklore, horror and speculative fiction, all in Clark’s darkly humorous style.

In ‘Ghillie’s Mum’, shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award, a shape-shifting mother needs to decide whether to compromise and stay in her human form, or lose her son. In ‘Total Transparency’, a man is learning how to live with a gradually disappearing wife. In ‘Blanks’, people are paying to create clones of themselves so they will never die. And in ‘Dreaming in Quantum’, there’s a murder to be solved which echoes through dimensions only accessible in dreams.

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Published: 20/05/2021

ISBN: 9781912054657

Length: 192pp

Price: £8.99

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‘Clark’s playful narratives take us to the edges of what it is to be human’ —TLS

‘Manages the trick of investing emotion into the off-beam and the awry… a remarkable book by a very interesting writer’  —The Scotsman

‘Sublime weird writing, by turns compelling, arresting, amusing and unnerving… Clark is a significant, exciting new voice’ —Will Forrester, English PEN

‘In Lynda Clark’s high-concept horrors, even the strangest perversions of science and biology can feel sadly familiar, hinting at the fantasies we tell ourselves to explain, or run away from, the darkest moments of our lives’                                —Nick Mulgrew, author of A Hibiscus Coast