Incremental: 25 tales of fantasy, sci-fi, speculative, and bizarre fiction

by Geoff Nelder

These twenty-five tales from Geoff Nelder have increment as a theme.

Noun – an increase or addition, especially one of a series on a fixed increase, addition, gain, augmentation, step up, supplement, addendum, adjunct, accretion, boost, enhancement.Verb – cause a discrete increase in.Mathematically the difference can be negative – decremental.

For example a pothole doubles in size every day, a meteorite hits the same house daily at the same time, or a heavy leather-bound book on the top shelf teeters closer to toppling at each library visit. A sound is heard all over the Earth, but more worrying, it gets louder each day. A couple of astronauts crash land on an ocean planet (apparently) and incrementally sink.
A few stories are more mental than incremental, you’ll see.

Some of the stories have won awards and have been published before, but most of the wordage is new and drawn together for a common theme. I do not apologise for the mix of genres in this collection. I write as the muse takes me and only afterwards am I asked, is it hard SF, bizarre, horror? You have a smorgasbord of fantasy, science fiction and speculative in your hands.

292 pages, Paperback

Published October 10, 2018

About the author

Geoff Nelder has a wife, two grown-up kids, an increasing number of grandkids, and lives in rural England within an easy cycle ride of the Welsh mountains. He taught Geography and Information Technology for years until writing took over his life. Geoff is a competition short-fiction judge, and a freelance editor.

Publications include several non-fiction books on climate reflecting his other persona as a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society; over 50 published short stories in various magazines and anthologies; thriller, humour, science fiction, and fantasy novels.
2005: Humorous thriller Escaping Reality. Republished 2012.
2008: Award-winning science fiction mystery with hot-blooded heroine, Alien Exit, on Kindle
2010: Another thriller received an Award d’Or from an Arts Academy in the Netherlands. Its third edition will be published in 2012, Hot Air.
2012: ARIA Trilogy starting with Left Luggage an apocalypse and survival series.
An urban and historical magic realism fantasy, Vengeance Island is available on Kindle.
Flying Crooked sf series starting with Suppose We.
Chaos of Mokii an experimental sf on Kindle
Incremental - short stories of mainly sf and Kafkaesque.

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