Marginal

by Grant J. Riley

Marginal is a collection of short stories that depict alternative lifestyles at the end of a millennium. These tales give insight into the little known world of travellers, protestors, squatters and those that sought to live in different ways.

188 pages, Paperback

Published April 20, 2017

About the author

Well-travelled, well-read, and well-tested. I have five distinctively different books published with Lulu.com. The 6th is a work in progress. 1) A Journal from the End of Times - A travelogue accompanied by discussion, research, and reflection. 2) Marginal - A series of auto-fictitious short stories based around pre-millennial tension, set in the UK, Ireland, and Holland. 3) Handroid - A near-future speculative fiction set in Hanoi, Vietnam, which spins the android clichés. My 6th book will be a sequel to this tale. 4) Lockdown Hanoi - A diary kept during the pandemic inside a country which stopped all flights and ways in and out for two years. 5) Calling Crows - A further collection of tales from the front line of rioters, travellers, and protesters: UK 80s/90s. 6) Thanh Thanh in Vietnam - Last of the Humans - a working title and yet to be finished project. Beyond fiction, I have written academic and reportorial pieces in various journals and publications, including The Ecologist, The Holistic Science Journal, VNExpress International, Chào Hanoi, and the Vietnam Economic Times. Grant J. Riley - sometimes The Glorious Rant, sometimes simply G.Rant. Follow the links and I hope you'll get the picture.

Reviews

[Anthony Trewhitt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Marginal is a collection of short stories written in a style that immediately puts the reader in the situations that the writer paints with his words. You can sense and feel the places, people and situations that he conjures, well worth a read, he invites the reader in to a world that many will never have experienced but wished they had been part of. A great read.

[Micheal Matthews]

Resistance is fertile. Transported back in time with this page turner.Natty Padlock and the whole tribe remind us of the difference the environmental activists made.thank you