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Roads of Destiny
Roads of Destiny

Roads of Destiny

And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms

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Tales of the Weird

FICTION

288 Pages, 5 x 7.5

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $16.99 (US $16.99) (CA $22.99)

Publication Date: September 2024

ISBN 9780712354394

Rights: US & CA

British Library Publishing (Sep 2024)

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Overview

Delving into the strange imaginings of Arthur Conan Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, Sarban, Robert Holdstock and many more, this new collection brings together fourteen tales traversing uncanny collateral fates, weird eddies of alternative history, and otherworlds bordering our own reality.

He spoke of a new kind of terremauvaise, of strange regions, connected, indeed, with definite geographical limits upon the earth, yet somehow apart from them and beyond them.

A youth comes to a literal fork in his road where all three paths contrive to end in the same violent fate; a beleaguered man finds his neuroses oddly mirrored in a dark parallel world co-existing with our own; Kaiser Wilhelm II, rather than abdicate, leads the High Seas Fleet on one last voyage.

Treading the path of that which never existed (in our reality, at least) and the otherworlds bordering our own version of Earth, this new collection brings together tales of strange parallel destinies, unexplored forks in humanity’s history, twisted pocket dimensions and forays into unsettling regions of Dark Fantasy.

 

Author Biography

ALASDAIR RICHMOND has lectured in Philosophy at Edinburgh University since 2003, focusing primarily on the philosophy of time and time travel. He is also a keen amateur writer of weird fiction.