20 Jan: Interzone on Lemistry
"An unashamedly intelligent, relentlessly experimental and challenging anthology. Its combination of provocation, entertainment and migraine-inducing paradoxes would be perfectly at home with Lem's finest writing. Highly recommended." More about the book here.

11 Jan: The Independent's Wednesday Book: Emil Hakl's 'On Flying Objects'
'Co-translators Petr Kopet and Karen Reppin capture the tarnished tenderness of these superfluous men as, inevitable as winter twilights or morning hangovers, "Sadness arrived, the king of all emotions".'
Read full review. More about the book here.

31 Dec: Best of the Year

Mirja Unge's It Was Just, Yesterday makes The Guardian's 'Best Short Stories of 2011' list. Also Litmus makes The Observer's Best Books of 2011 list.
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National Library Day with Zoe Lambert, Sat 4 Feb, Maghull Library, Merseyside.
Manchester author Zoe Lambert reads from and discusses her contribution to 'Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science', exploring the extraordinary story of Lise Meitner, the woman once claimed to have 'stolen the atom bomb out of Germany in a handbag'.
Meadows (Maghull) Library , Hall Lane, Maghull, L31 7BB.

11am. Free.
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The War Tour - Zoe Lambert
The Last Tram - Nedim Gursel
On Flying Objects - Emil Hakl
Twice in a Lifetime - Agust Borgþor Sverrisson

The BBC National Short Story Award anthology

For the second year running Comma is extremely proud to be publishing the prize anthology, featuring all five shortlisted stories.
>> More about the anthology and shortlist.

Also available for the Kindle.

Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science

Selected for The Observer's Best Books of the 2011 list.
'Exquisite... delectable' - New Scientist.
BOOK OF THE WEEK: 'Works brilliantly... ingenious... unfailingly interesting.' - The Independent.
Listen to author Sarah Hall and editor Ra Page discuss the science-into-fiction project on BBC Radio 4's Front Row on iPLayer

More about Litmus.
Also available for the Kindle.

More Forthcoming Titles>>

The Shieling

by David Constantine
**WINNER of the BBC National Short Story Award 2010.**
*SHORTLISTED for the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award*
The much anticipated follow-up to Constantine's highly acclaimed Under The Dam.
'So good I'll be surprised if there's a better collection this year...'
- The Independent, 2 Sep 09.
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The Book of Istanbul

A City in Short Fiction.
Edited by Jim Hinks and Gul Turner.
Featuring Turker Armaner, Murat Gulsoy, Nedim Gursel, Muge Iplikci, Karin Karakasli, Sema Kaygusuz, Gonul Kivilcim, Mario Levi, Ozen Yula, and Mehmet Zaman Saclioglu.

'Full of insights and surprises' - The Guardian, 'Ten Best Books Set in Istanbul'.
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The Madman of Freedom Square

by Hassan Blasim
Translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright.
The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective.
*Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010*
'Perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive...'

- The Guardian in its review of another anthology, 12 Jun 10.
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When It Changed

'Science Into Fiction': NEW EDITION OUT NOW!!
Ed. by Geoff Ryman
A literary 'experiment' in the scientific sense.
*Featuring Sara Maitland's 'Moss Witch' - Runner Up in the BBC National Short Story Prize 2009*
'Stunning'
- New Scientist, 5 Dec 09.
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Under the Dam

by David Constantine
*WINNER of the BBC National Short Story Award 2010*

'Flawless but Unsettling...' - The Independent, Books of the Year.
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Planet Box

Laura Daly & Diana Syder
A unique collaboration between a visual artist and a poet.
'Here is an English poet who is amazed by the world and wants to tell you how amazed she is.' - Jim Burns.
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The New Uncanny

Ed. by Sarah Eyre & Ra Page
Featuring:
A.S. Byatt, Christopher Priest, Ramsey Campbell, Etgar Keret, Hanif Kureishi, Sara Maitland, Alison Macleod, Jane Rogers, Gerard Woodward, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Nicholas Royle, Ian Duhig, Matthew Holness, and Adam Marek.
*WINNER of the Shirley Jackson Award*
'A masterclass in understated creepiness.'
- Book of the Week, Time Out, 12 Jan.

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Instruction Manual for Swallowing

by Adam Marek
'There's a transgressive thrill to Adam Marek's debut collection of short stories that's not simply a result of the potency of the subject matter... delightful.'
- The Guardian.
'Genuine, unsettling talent'
- The Independent.
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The Silence Room

by Sean O'Brien
'Hugely entertaining... superbly chilling.'
- The Guardian, 1 Aug.
'The collection is as satisfying as it is stimulating... deeply unsettlingly... darkly thrilling.'
- The Independent, 9 Jan.
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