Disintegration: Nine short stories

by Simon Williams

Nine stories that bridge the fantasy, horror and science fiction genres. Each tale occupies its own twisted universe.

57 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 29, 2016

About the author

Simon Williams is an author of dark fantasy with elements of science fiction and horror, and a rather shapeless male of indeterminate age who seems intent on writing about himself in the third person.

If you're especially lucky you may see him half-shambling, half-rolling along the street in his home town of Trumpton. You'll catch the best view from the other side of the road, which is probably where you'll be anyway. Small children will point excitedly and turn to their parents to exclaim, "It must have been *one hell of a* spade to do that!"

He is the author of the Aona series (five books in all, and the series is complete) and Summer's Dark Waters, which is a fantasy / sci-fi adventure aimed more at children and teens although judging by the reviews a lot of adults seem to like it too.

The positive response to Summer's Dark Waters further prompted him to start writing a sequel.

His favourite authors include Clive Barker, Alan Garner, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Joe Abercrombie, Ian Irvine, George R R Martin, C J Cherryh, Tad Williams, Celia Friedman, Aldous Huxley and numerous others.

When not scribbling away in his notepad of doom, the curious Mr Williams enjoys counting magpies, opening old paperbacks and marveling at how each one smells very slightly different, discussing current interest rates and inflation with the local squirrels, and eating whatever he finds at the back of the fridge (unless it's a door to Narnia, which he'd never eat just in case Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy were hoping to use it to get back).

Interviews with the author:

Rachel Hunter

Ross Kitson

Gwen Perkins

M L Falconer

Kim Smith

Alex Butcher

Fiona McVie

Veronica Roxby Jorden

Dakota Douglas

Kyra Dune

Heidi Angell

Reviews

[Bethnoir · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well written with interesting situations and scenes, but the unrelenting themes of death, decay and depression tired me out after a while.

[Rob Shepherd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very occasionally you find an author and who's work is so akin and a tune to yourself and your own that you wonder a lot. Such is the case with Simon Williams. Disintegration is a collection of nine very different yet interconnected stories in subtle ways. Such is the connection made here that I felt such familiarity with the characters, that I know them well, they drew me in and took me for a dark, sinister walk through the deep and twisted mind of Simon Williams' imagination, one that I feel is closest to my own of almost any other author I have read to date. This was as much a personal journey and reading as merely being enthralled and hooked by brilliantly constructed stories and exquisite writing, but these are the very same reasons alone that will have you hooked from page one to the very last. You may take me for my word or you might not, whichever you do, be sure to read this book, expect the unexpected and know that one expectation that will be filled is that Simon will surpass it and any others.

[A.R. · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book had a lot of rich description, but didn't really go anywhere exciting. I had high hopes for this one; the tales felt anticlimactic, however.

[Jayne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved these stories, which are in some ways quite different to one another, particularly comparing the author's early and later works. Thought provoking, unsettling and very atmospheric.