Elysium

by Robin Gilbert

A badly beaten prostitute dreams of a fantasy world in which she is a princess... or is Elysia the world in which she truly belongs and her current existence a nightmare?

Nook

First published July 15, 2011

About the author

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I've been games programming for over 30 years (starting with the Spectrum) and writing for over 20. Blimey, that sounds a lot. I live in Brisbane with my wife, two children and Nelly and Flossie the cavoodles. We also unwittingly support the local possums.

I love to write science fiction (with an unhealthy interest in dystopian worlds, about which my Speckledom series of stories is about, beginning with Brightly Falling) and fantasy (the Gateway World stories, of which The Watchman's Daughter is my most recent). I also dabble in a strange kind of fantasy / humour hybrid (the vastgreen forest; Double Negative) and occasionally feel compelled to write a slipstream tale (Elysium).

I give my stories away for free in the hope that somebody, some day, will read something in one of them and think ... “Wow! That’s so cool. I’m going to be a writer.” ... just as I did when I was 16 years old and found a dusty old copy of Asimov’s Foundation in the attic.