THE STORIES -
A Journey Along the Sprout Vector Scheherazade
#10, 1994 A Quiet Kind of Madness Magazine of
Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1968 Brother Ape
Andromeda 3, 1978 Eternity-Magic Spectrum SF
6, July 2001 Green and Pleasant Land Interzone
32, Nov/Dec 1989 Green England Spectrum SF 7,
November 2001 Moon-Pearls Fantasy Annual 5, 2003
Morning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,
July 1978 Nancy Fantastic, February 1971 On
the Deck of the Flying Bomb Interzone 4, 1983 Please
Sir, Can We Kill Something? The Gate 3, 1990 Prisoners
of Paradise New Worlds 167, October 1966 Sunbeam
Caress If, April 1968 Sundown Magazine of Fantasy
and Science Fiction, December 1967 The Beast That
Howled Scheherazade 27, October 2004 The Blackness
Interzone 56, February 1992 The Dinosaurs of London
Fantasy Annual 5, April 2003 The Frozen Summer
If, March 1968 The House on Hollow Mountain
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1982 The
Lantern in the Nest of Twigs Scheherazade 15, 1997
The Mammoth Hunters New Worlds 5, 1973 The
Old Man of Munington Asimov's, mid-December 1993 The
Sphere ubstance, 1995 The Way to London Town
New Worlds 164, July 1966 The World of Arthur English
Previously unpublished, new to this collection. The
Wounded Dragon Scheherazade 7, 1993 Trout Fishing
in Leytonstone Asimov's, March 1995 Warship
Amazing, February 1974 When Jesus Came to the Moon
for Christmas Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,
Jan 1991 Yuhana Am On Spec, Spring 2005
More Redd-related material,
including reprints of non-fiction, will
appear here Real Soon Now - check again later
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Some editorial introduction from the original
publications -
FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION December 1967
(SUNDOWN)
David Redd is a young English writer. We do not know
much more than that about him. Such information can
wait; hopefully, we will be able to offer it along with
more of his work. However, we could could not wait to
bring you this superior and involving fantasy: "When
the sun sets, all the creatures of the rocks come alive
and dance, that the sun shall not rise again. We were
born in darkness, and the darkness shall return."
FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION May 1968 (A QUIET
KIND OF MADNESS)
David Redd follows his impressive debut in these
pages ('Sundown' December 1967) with this equally impressive
take of wintry landscapes and wintry Maija, and of the
Snow Friend who shares with her the dream of the land-without-men.
NEW WORLDS OF FANTASY 2 1970 (A QUIET KIND
OF MADNESS) reprint anthology
This is one of those rare stories that fully deserve
the much-used phrase 'haunting fantasy'. It's strange,
moody and intense, and you're likely to find yourself
thinking about it long after you've finished reading
it. Which is, of course, one of the things that good
fiction is all about.
FANTASTIC February 1971 (WARSHIP)
Surely the most helpless victims of wars are the
children. Within the span of only a dozen years we've
been confronted by the grim reminders of this fact in
countries as georgrapgically separated as Vietnam and
Biafra. But what of the children of England...after
World War 3 ? What of -
FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION July 1978 (MORNING)
David Redd, who wrote several fine stories for F&SF
in the late 1960's (SUN DOWN, A QUIET KIND OF MADNESS)
returns with a very different tale about an ending on
one world and a beginning on another.
ANDROMEDA 3 1978 (BROTHER APE)
In the late 1960s David Redd attracted considerable
interest with a whole crop of stories in the magazines
of which probably the most memorable was 'Sundown',
in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.It's
rare for a young British writer to break in so suddenly
to the major American markets, but David did it
and then as abruptly withdrew, remaining isolated
and something of a mystery man in his native Haverfordwest
at the South-Western tip of Wales.Ever since, editors
have tried to coax David to resume his literary output;
and with 'Brother Ape' ANDROMEDA has succeed securing
his best story yet.
FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION May 1982 (THE
HOUSE ON HOLLOW MOUNTAIN)
David Redd is an occasional contributor ("Morning,"
July 1978) who tells us that he has wanted to write
this story for nearly twenty years. "Since making
the original notes about the house and its people I've
been a postman, highway technician and freelance writer;
I've travelled in Scandinavia and done work for several
multinational energy companies." Mr. Redd lives
in Wales with his wife and two children.
FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION January 1991 (WHEN
JESUS CAME TO THE MOON FOR CHRISTMAS)
This is DR's first story here since 'The House on
Hollow Mountain'(May 1982) It is a fresh and enjoyable
tale about one eventful Chrinstmas Eve in a Moonbase
laboratory.
ASIMOV'S DEC 1993 (THE OLD MAN OF MUNINGTON)
David Redd is a civil engineer who since 1966 has
contributed stories to INTERZONE, F&SF and other
magazines. His first story for Asimov's is a tale set
in the strangely haunted landscape of his native Wales.
ISAAC ASIMOV'S VAMPIRES 1996(THE OLD MAN OF
MUNINGTON) reprint anthology
'The Old Man of Munington'' was purchased by Gardner
Dozois, and appeared in the Mid-December 1993 issue
of Asimov's, with an illustration by Carol Heyer. This
was David Read's first sale to Asimov'she's since sold
us another onebut Redd, although never prolific, has
been a familiar name to cognoscenti for more than three
decades. A civil engineer who lives and works in Wales,
Redd began writing in 1966, and has sold stories to
markets such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science
Fiction, In-terzone, The Gate, and Scheherazade. Redd
is passionately Welsh, and Wales is the setting for
the chilling, suspenseful, and strangely evocative story
that follows, one which demonstrates, convincingly,
that things are not always as they seem....
ASIMOV'S March 1995 (TROUT FISHING IN LEYTONSTONE)
David Redd is a civil engineer living and working
in Wales. His short stories have appeared in ASIMOV'S,
F&SF THE GATE, SCHEHEREZADE and INTERZONE. 'TROUT
FISHING IN LEYTONSTONE' was written in homage to the
Richard Brautigan fans and new music freaks who flourished
in that area during the 1980s.
SPECTRUM SF July 2001 (ETERNITY-MAGIC)
David Redd first started publishing short fiction
in the late 1960s with stones in NEW WoRLDS, F&SF
and WORLDS OF IF. Since then he has made appearances
in, amongst others, ANDROMEDA, AMAZING, ASIMOV'S SF,
FANTASTIC, THE GATE, INTERZONE, SCHEHERAZADE, SUBSTANCE
and WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE! I'm glad to be able
to welcome him to SPECTRUM SF with the tale below. It
contains characters from two other stories, THE WAY
TO LONDON TOWN (NEW WORLDS 164, July 1966) and THE MAMMOTH
HUNTERS (NEW WORLDS 5, 1973), but is complete in itself.
SPECTRUM SF November 2001 (GREEN ENGLAND)
The work below is the third in a very loosely connected
series which the author refers to as his 'Green and
Pleasant Land' stories. The first two are GREEN AND
PLEASANT LAND (INTERZONE 32, November/December 1989)
and ENGLAND, SCHONES GRUNES LAND (RIFFPRIMATEN, ed.
Wolfgang Jeschke, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1996). This
last story has been published only in German and the
title translates literally as ENGLAND, GOOD GREEN LAND.
Readers interested in David's work can find a bibliography
on the SPECTRUM SF website. His last appearance in this
magazine was with ETERNITY-MAGIC (SPECTRUM SF #6, July
2001).
ON SPEC SPRING 2005 (YUHANA AM)
David Redd works and lives in Wales and his work
has appeared in FANTASY ANNUAL 5, SPECTRUM and SCHEHEREZADE.
His first Canadian appearance was in STARTING POINTS
IN READING - LEVEL F, a collection strangely neglected
by genre reviewers. Later. CHRW Ontaria broadcast a
radio reading of ON THE DECK OF THE FLYING BOMB. After
all that and ON SPEC David is an honorary Candian by
now? "Identity is not logical. How many fingers
make a person?How can you still be the same when part
of you is missing?"
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