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Alan Smale writes science fiction and dark fantasy, sings bass and
serves as Business Manager for up-and-coming high-energy vocal band
The Chromatics, and performs occasionally in community theater. Born and raised in England, he now lives in Maryland and works at NASA Headquarters in lovely downtown Washington DC.
Coming Soon!
- "Fossil Fuels", to appear in Realms of Fantasy
- "Bonfire Night", to appear in the Twilight Temptations anthology
from Simian Publishing in June 2008
Most Recent Publications
- "Quartet, with Mermaids", online at Abyss and Apex Issue 25: 1st Quarter 2008
Locus says: "The first 2008 issue of Abyss and Apex is a good one: two particularly sharp-edged pieces work best... Alan Smale's "Quartet, with Mermaids" is an only too believable treatment, from multiple viewpoints, of the likely end results of finding a real group of plausible mermaids"
- "A Trade in Serpents", in Realms of
Fantasy, August 2007
Featured in Locus's Recommended Reading List for 2007
Locus says: "August's Realms of Fantasy is dominated by a quirky and historically impertinent counterfactual by Alan Smale... "A Trade in Serpents" draws on certain rhetorical ramblings that preceded the American Revolutionary War - Benjamin Franklin's famous sentiment that if Britain wanted to export convicts to the Colonies, it should import rattlesnakes in return - to work mischief with the past... soon, dreadfully big and purposeful rattlers are infesting the streets of London... Smale does a fine job of picking out [the inevitability of America's separation from the Empire] amidst the surface details of 18th-century life and thought, and his psychoanalysis of Franklin is intelligent and amusing"
Tangent Online says: "Stir it all together with great care and you have a well-crafted suspenseful adventure, definitely worth reading"
- "Bound", in Horror Library Volume II, edited by R.J. Cavender and
Vincent VanAllen, from Cutting Block
Press
- "Wearing the Dead", in the new edition of Twilight Tales' Book of Dead Things, edited
by Tina Jens & Eric M. Cherry
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