Elsewhen Press: 68 books

The title, Existence is Elsewhen, paraphrases the last sentence of André Breton’s 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism, perfectly summing up the intent behind this anthology of stories from a wonderful collection of authors. Different worlds… different times. It’s what Elsewhen Press has been about...

In the fifth novel in Ira Nayman's Multiverse series (aka the Transdimensional Authority series, which is misleading because book four of the series was mostly about the Time Agency - honestly, if you blinked, you would have missed the appearance of the Transdimensional Authority, and if you didn't...

Never pick up an old coin An outsider in his own time, Jack finds himself a stranger in the distant past, then a pawn in a dark, dystopian future where rebels struggle to overturn an ancient and ruthlessly oppressive empire. Jack has an exceptional gift: a remarkable ability to absorb and memorise...

There’s a supernatural war brewing for control of the Second City of the British Empire Glasgow 1893. Wilton Hunt, a student, and Tam Foley, a laudanum-addicted pharmacist, are pursuing extra-curricular careers as body snatchers, or ‘resurrection men’, under cover of darkness. They exhume...

It's 1831, and Lady Gwendolyn Crichton has been appointed Royal Sorceress following the tragic events known as the Swing. Although unleashed by the rebel master magician Jack in battle with Gwen's mentor Master Thomas, the popular press firmly laid the blame at the feet of the French. Now alone at...

In the future your culture will be shaped by machines. Your world is manipulated by computer coding, search engines and social networks. It’s just a matter of time before everything you watch, read and listen to will be created by autonomous machines... Android Writer PD121928 is part...

[Re]Awakenings are the starting points for life-changing experiences; a new plane of existence, an alternate reality or cyber-reality. This genre-spanning anthology of new speculative fiction explores that theme with a spectrum of tales, from science fiction to fantasy to paranormal; in styles from...

Watching… waiting… planning   Hidden somewhere, deep in the Cloud, something is collating information. It reads everything, it learns, it watches. And it plans.  Around the world, researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs are being killed in a string of apparently unrelated accidents. But when...

In the Britain of 2034 overtime for married couples is banned, there is enforced viewing of family television (much of it repeats of old shows from the sixties and seventies), monitored family meal-times and a coming of age where twenty-five year-olds are automatically assigned a spouse by the state...

Our culture is generated by machines. It’s ten years after Android Writer PD121928 from An Android Awakes was fed into a sink grinder by its replacement PD121929.   The human prostitute Sapphira, believing PD121929 to be PD121928 for all that time has tried and failed to save PD121929 from being...

The Convergence Project is a covert military/governmental science project that uses prisoners on death row to explore what happens to people as they die.   The experience of life flashing before your eyes just before death is a process called active retrieval where memories are being recalled and...

Literary surrealism at its most profound, The Ascent of Isaac Steward follows one man's journey into his own mind as he struggles to come to terms with the trauma that has reshaped his life.  A year on from the car crash in which his wife Rebekah and son Esau were killed and his other son Jacob left...

What would you do if you found out your dotty old Gran wasn't from Surrey after all, but from a planet six hundred light years away across the galaxy? Not only that but she's really an exiled Princess from a Royal family that has been virtually wiped out by a tyrannical usurper. Would you believe...

The Rhymer, an Heredyssey by Douglas Thompson defies classification in any one literary genre. A satire on contemporary society, particularly the art world, it is also a comic-poetic meditation on the nature of life, death and morality.   A mysterious tramp wanders from town to town, taking a new...