Breaking the Rules

by Alex Davis (Editor), Allen Ashley, Sandra Unerman

Greetings, player, and prepare yourselves for a journey unlike any other - a journey through the world of games. Enter a realm where a man falls in love with a playing card and a game of Scrabble has deadly consequences, a place where reality and virtual reality blur into one and the same. In these pages, the moves of a chess piece can signal the difference between life and death, rioting has become a huge national sport and the players lose themselves in games of their own devising. Featuring stories by Allen Ashley, Adam Craig, Charlie Fish, Diotima Sophia, Sandra Unerman, Jay Wilburn, Jason D Wittman and many more.

136 pages, Paperback

First published April 2, 2014

About the author

Alex Davis is an author, editor, publisher, creative writing tutor and events organiser based in Derby.

His debut novel, THE LAST WAR, is out in July from Tickety Boo Press and is the first in a science-fiction trilogy following the aliens of the Noukari.

He is co-ordinator for Derby's annual Edge-Lit event – running this year on the 11th July – and also part of the management committee for this year's Derby Book Festival.

He also runs Boo Books, Derby's independent press, aiming to promote regional talent along internationally known authors. Their latest release is The Electric, available in paperback for the first time. For more information, visit http://boobooks.net/

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite a spread of tales from 2-star to 4, but whether I liked them or not there was a good fresh feel to them. Keeping Score (J Wilburn),Riot Season (David Turnbull), Simultown (JP Alders) and Death by Scrabble (Charlie Fish) I particularly liked. Odd how almost all of the tales dish out heavy punishment for breaking rules...... in real life the privileged get away with breaking rules or make up their own while the rest of us negotiate our way through as best we can.