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Acknowledgements

"The Girl Who Died for Art and Lived"

first publised in
Interzone
22, 1989

"The Phoenix Experiment"

first published in
The Lyre
1, 1991.

"Big Trouble Upstairs"

first published in
Interzone
26, 1988.

"Star of Epsilon"

first published in
REM
1, 1991.

"The Time-Lapsed Man"

first published in
Interzone
24, 1988.

"The Pineal-Zen Equation"

first published as "Krash-Bangg Joe and the Pineal-Zen Equation"
Interzone
21, 1987.

"The Art of Acceptance"

first published in
Strange Plasma
1, 1989.

"Elegy Perpetuum"

first published in
Interzone
52, 1991.

Eric Brown would like to thank the editors of the above publications: David Pringle, Ian Sales, Nicholas Mahoney, Arthur Straker, Steve Pasechnick.

About the Author

Eric Brown's first short story was published in
Interzone
in 1987, and he sold his first novel,
Meridian Days
, in 1992. He has won the British Science Fiction Award twice for his short stories and has published thirty-five books: SF novels, collections, books for teenagers and younger children, and he writes a monthly SF review column for
The
Guardian
. His latest books include the novel
Guardians of the Phoenix
, for Solaris Books. He is married to the writer and mediaevalist Finn Sinclair and they have a daughter, Freya.

His website can be found at: www.ericbrown.co.uk

Coming in April 2011 from Eric Brown and Solaris Books...

1999, on the threshold of a new millennium, the novelist Daniel Langham lives a reclusive life on an idyllic Greek island, hiding away from humanity and the events of the past. All that changes, however, when he meets artist Caroline Platt and finds himself falling in love. But what is his secret, and what are the horrors that haunt him?

1935. Writers Jonathon Langham and Edward Vaughan are summoned from London by their editor friend Jasper Carnegie to help investigate strange goings on in Hopton Wood. What they discover there - no less than a strange creature from another world - will change their lives forever. What they become, and their link to the novelist of the future, is the subject of Eric Brown's most ambitious novel to date. Almost ten years in the writing, The Kings of Eternity is a novel of vast scope and depth, full of the staple tropes of the genre and yet imbued with humanity and characters you'll come to love.

"A gripping sci-fi noir tale."

SciFi Now on
Necropath

"A good old page turner - you start reading with few expectations and suddenly find yourself enthralled in it in such a way that you read it through the night without noticing"

Post Weird Thoughts on
Helix

"Vivid, emotional, philosophical, this is a work to feed the mind, heart and soul."

Stephan Baxter on Kéthani