Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories by Lynda Clark

Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories by Lynda Clark

From award-winning author Lynda Clark come sixteen engrossing stories weaving together elements of folklore, fantasy and speculative fiction, all of them in Clark's darkly humorous style. In Ghillie's Mum, shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award, a shape-shifting mother needs to decide whether to compromise and stay in her human form, or lose her son. In Total Transparency, a man is learning how to live with a gradually disappearing wife. In Blanks, people are paying to create clones of themselves so they will never die. And in Dreaming in Quantum, there's a murder to be solved which echoes through dimensions only accessible in dreams.

'In these high-concept horrors, even the strangest perversions of science and biology can feel sadly familiar, hinting at the fantasies we tell ourselves to explain, or run away from, the darkest moments of our lives' -Nick Mulgrew, author of A Hibiscus Coast

'Lynda Clark's stories are thought-provoking, very funny, sometimes poignant, and always entertaining, with a whole Buffyverse-worth of plotlines and nice, fat, satisfying endings' -Jo Lloyd, winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2019

'This consummate collection turns the normal strange and the strange normal: it is sublime weird writing, by turns compelling, arresting, amusing and unnerving' -Will Forrester, English PEN

'Clark's playful narratives take us to the edges of what it is to be human' -Alison Kelly, TLS

Lynda Clark is the author of Beyond Kidding, a darkly humorous novel published by Fairlight Books in 2019, and Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories, her debut short story collection published in May 2021.

Beyond Kidding is in development for a feature with Film4, while Dreaming in Quantum contains the highly acclaimed ‘Ghillie's Mum’, which won the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Europe and Canada and appeared on numerous shortlists including the BBC Short Story award.

Lynda has a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing and is currently a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh, where she is also Programme Director of the Narrative Futures masters at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. In her spare time, Lynda enjoys walking on the beach with her husband and dog Badger, playing video games, and reading and writing Interactive Fiction. She has recently written a novel about a woman who can talk to household appliances, and is working on a gothic ghost comedy and a memoir about voice, vocal disorders and technology. 

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ISBN 13	9781912054657
ISBN 10	1912054655
Title	Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories
Author	Lynda Clark
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Fairlight Books
Year published	2021-05-20
Number of pages	192
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