Beyond Each Blue Horizon

by Andrew Hook, Joel Lane (Introduction)

A fantastic collection of short stories from one of Britain's highly talented new wave authors, Andrew Hook. Edgy, different, thought-provoking stories that include 'Only The Lonely' - first published in Fusing Horizons (and nominated for a British Fantasy Award for 2004), as well unpublished stories such as 'Kiosk B,' and 'The Luxury of Sleep.' Andrew's first collection - The Virtual Menagerie - was shortlisted for the best collection 2003 British Fantasy Awards.

211 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Andrew Hook is a European writer who has been published extensively in the independent press since 1994 in a variety of genres, with over 170 short stories in print, including notable appearances in Interzone, Black Static, and several anthologies from PS Publishing and NewCon Press. His fiction has been reprinted in anthologies including Best British Horror 2015 and Best British Short Stories 2020, has been shortlisted for British Fantasy Society awards, and he was longlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize in 2020. As editor/publisher, he has won three British Fantasy Society awards and he also has been a judge for the World Fantasy Awards. Most recent publications include several noir crime novels through Head Shot Press, a novella written in collaboration with the legendary San Francisco art collective known as The Residents, and his tenth collection Candescent Blooms (Salt Publishing) which received a 5-star review in The Telegraph and was recently shortlisted for a British Fantasy Society award for best collection.

Andrew is currently working on three separate short story collections.

Reviews

[Ian]

When it comes to writing fiction, Andrew Hook is a sneaky bastard. He takes his reader gently by the hand, and leads them down a path until they're in a pleasant, lawned area with a bench. He sits them down, hands them a nice cup of tea, has a quiet conversation about various things that don't seem particularly connected to each other, and then asks permission to place a blindfold over the reader's eyes. This odd request granted, he does so. At which point one realises that what he actually did was REMOVE a blindfold, becuase everything that you saw until then was fiction, and one is actually sitting with cup of exceedingly fine coffee in the hand, and are surrounded by wonderful flora and fauna in the middle of a country field somewhere in the middle of the New Hebrides. This sudden change of awareness is surprising, but not unpleasant.

That's what his writing is like. Full of surprises, always rewarding, always exceedingly seamless in its use of technique.

He's good; so very, VERY good.

[Eugen Bacon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Andrew Hook is eclectic in his stories, a personal style across a vast range of themes. He is rare, different, incomparable to any other writer. A master illusionist with text.