Peter Crowther

Peter Crowther (1949- ) is a British journalist, short story writer, novelist, editor, publisher and anthologist. He is the founder (with Simon Conway) of PS Publishing. He edits a series of themed anthologies of science fiction short stories published by DAW books. He is also the editor of Postscripts.

Bibliography

Novels

* "Escardy Gap" (1996) (with James Lovegrove)
* "Fugue on a G-String" (1998)
* "Gandalph Cohen and the Land at the End of the Working Day" (1999)
* "The Hand That Feeds" (1999)
* "After Happily Ever" (2000)
* "Darkness, Darkness ("Forever Twilight": Book One)" (2002)

Collections of Crowther's short stories

* "The Longest Single Note and Other Strange Compositions" (1999)
* "Lonesome Roads" (1999)
* "Songs of Leaving" (2004)
* "The Spaces Between the Lines" (2007)
* "The Land at the End of the Working Day" (2008)

hort Stories

* "Blue Christmas" (1991)
* "Constant Companion" (1992)
* "The Visitor" (1992)
* "Fallen Angel" (1993)
* "Morning Terrors" (1994)
* "All We Know of Heaven" (1995)
* "Bindlestiff" (1995)
* "A Breeze from a Distant Shore" (1995)
* "Conundrums to Guess" (1995)
* "Home Comforts" (1995)
* "The Invasion" (1995)
* "Too Short a Death" (1995)
* "The Bachelor" (1996)
* "The Fairy Trap" (1996)
* "Halfway House" (1996)
* "Surface Tension" (1996)
* "A Worse Place than Hell" (1996)
* "The Killing of Davis-Davis" (1997)
* "The Last Vampire" (1997)
* "Palindromic" (1997)
* "Safe Arrival" (1997)
* "Three Plays a Quarter" (1997)
* "Tomorrow Eyes" (1997)
* "The Unbetrayable Reply" (1997)
* "Elmer" (1998)
* "Front-Page McGuffin and the Greatest Story Never Told" (1998)
* "Some Burial Place, Vast and Dry" (1998)
* "Cat On an Old School Roof" (1999)
* "The Hand that Feeds" (1999) (with James Lovegrove)
* "Late Night Pick-up" (1999)
* "Old Delicious Burdens" (1999)
* "Setting Free the Daughters of Earth" (1999)
* "Shatsi" (1999)
* "Dream a Little Dream for Me..." (2000)
* "Songs of Leaving" (2000)
* "Bernard Boyce Bennington And the American Dream" (2001)

Collections of Crowther's short stories

* "The Longest Single Note and Other Strange Compositions" (1999)
* "Lonesome Roads" (1999)
* "Songs of Leaving" (2004)
* "The Spaces Between the Lines" (2007)

Anthologies edited by Crowther

* "Heaven Sent" (1995)
* "Moon Shots" (1999)
* "Mars Probes" (2002)
* "Constellations" (2005)
* "Forbidden Planets" (2006)

Literary Awards

* British Fantasy Society : Best Collection winner (2000) : "Lonesome Roads"

Cultural references

* Peter Crowther is mentioned in Alan Hollinghurst's 2005 novel The Line of Beauty, in the very first lines.

External links

* [http://www.whc2007.org/pc-bio01.htm Biography from the World Horror Convention]
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/peter-crowther/ Biography and Bibliography at Fantastic Fiction]
* [http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/Peter_Crowther Peter Crowther at Scifipedia]
* [http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/ PS Publishing]