by John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781908168504 (epub, kindle) / 9781908168405 (240pp paperback)
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THE BLACK HOLE BAR
Simon, a traveller with time to kill, enters an inn on the outskirts of London. Inside he meets a motley crew competing to tell tales for their own amusement. So starts Dave Weaver’s new novel, The Black Hole Bar, which has already been compared to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio’s Decameron.
Simon has stumbled into what was supposed to be a closed session for the Black Hole Bar Writers’ Group, their monthly short story competition. Simon writes stories too and begrudgingly they let him participate. The stories begin, and Simon starts taking the competition far more seriously than he intended.
Each of them tells two stories, variously strange, amusing and occasionally downright scary. The writers’ own histories, come tumbling out one by one into the cramped room. As they do so, we learn more about the background of this world. A world recognisable as our possible future but also chilling in its recent past.
ISBN: 9781908168597 (epub, kindle) / 9781908168498 (256pp paperback)
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