FIFTY-TWO YEARS IN THE MAKING -

DAVID REDD - COLLECTED STORIES

Thirty stories, plus introduction and notes - 426pp, 23cmx15cm

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All thirty of David Redd's imaginative tales published in print between 1966 and 2005, this collection includes the modern classic 'On The Deck of the Flying Bomb', and the previously unpublished 'The World of Arthur English'.

The book includes an Introduction by David Redd recounting the hows and whys of his writing life, and retrospective notes on each individual story.

These stories were originally published in NEW WORLDS, THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, IF, INTERZONE, SPECTRUM SF, ASIMOV'S, AMAZING, ANDROMEDA and others; some have been previously anthologised but this is the first comprehensive collection.

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PLEASE NOTE - there is a recent interview with David Redd on Paul Fraser's webpage.
Highly recommended!

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The World of Arthur English — Previously unpublished, new to this collection.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 !

 

 

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's—he's since sold us another one—but 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?"