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Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #5

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In many ways, I believe this issue of Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction to be our finest yet. Entirely new, it features a single long story from Steven Gilligan, author of Elsewhere (published by Silver Age Books). This story, Sabaku, is the opening salvo of his novel-in-progress, The Indigo Skies of Home. Having read Sabaku, I can only hope that said progress becomes more actual than metaphorical, as I’m keen to discover what befalls these fascinating characters in the future.

Special as this issue is, one should not forget that every edition of Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction has something amazing to offer, and so I bring your attention to our subscription procedures. There are four options.

The first is to visit our website regularly, and read the issues as they become available. No need to contact us – you can administer this type of subscription yourself!

The second option is this: send an email to us at silveragebooks(at)blueyonder.co.uk with the words “TQF SEND PDF” in the title, and we will email you the pdf of each issue as it becomes available.

[The third option is no longer applicable – instead, sign up to receive our newsletter, which is sent out to announce each new issue – see the sign-up box to the left.]

The fourth option costs £16 – send a cheque for that amount, payable to your editor, Stephen Theaker, and we’ll send you the next four issues in the post, on actual old-fashioned paper!

It seems I need some more to fill out this page, and so I will drift in one of my ever more frequent reveries. The sun shines upon all the readers of Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction, and we have that in common. What else do we have in common? A love of story, an adoration of tall tales, a softness for genre, and a pleasure in poetry. Not, of course, the kind of poetry that rhymes and rambles in equal measure, not the maggot-ridden corpse of verse, but the poetry of prose, the poetry that comes from a simple soul expressing itself through the tropes of spaceships, laser guns, planets, stars and time travel. What other kind of literature can hope to compete? So let’s not stamp upon verse, as might normally be our (entirely natural) inclination, but instead let us all hie from here to try a little Tennyson, borrow some Byron, or sample a little Swinburne. And talking of Swinburne, here is Steven Gilligan’s latest story, which begins upon a ship of that name…

You can get this issue free by clicking on the cover as usual.

It is also included in the bound volume of the 2005 issues: Theaker's Quarterly Fiction: Year Two (#5-8), available to buy now!