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BEST SHORT STORIES:
The Repairman • Strange Attractor #2
1992
3000 words
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Various Notes and Comments
~ STRANGE ATTRACTOR #2 and #3: A5, 56pp, £2
each (4/£7:75) from Strange Attractor, 111 Sundon Road, Houghton
Regis, Beds LU5 5NL.
~ "No sooner does the debut issue set tongues wagging
with its full colour cover than Rick Cadger brings out #2
with more pages and good stories by Lawrence Dyer, Mike O'Driscoll
and P.J.L. Hinder among others..." From the BBR Directory
http://www.bbr-online.com/directory/9403.htm
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The Four-Thousand-Year-Old Boy • Interzone
July 1993
5000 words
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~ Interzone magazine. Ed. David Pringle. Founded
in 1982, Interzone is one of the world’s leading professional
Science Fiction and Fantasy magazines. Nominated for a Hugo
many years running and winning in 1995. Interzone is still
publishing today (2006) under editor Andy Cox's stewardship.
~ In 1993 The Four-Thousand-Year-Old Boy was listed in Locus'
Recommended Reading List and Lawrence was contacted by a film
production company about making the story into a short film
for the UK's Channel Four. Republished online at InfinityPlus
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/ 1999 The
Four-Thousand-Year-Old-Boy
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Skandia • Grotesque #1 1993
4500 words
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~ [Grotesque, April 1993 Auth/Ed: David Logan
Year: 1993 Price: £2.50 Pages: 48]
~ Republished in online anthology Echoes
Autumn 2001 http://www.isp101.com/~mikenoel/echoes.htm
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Their Mossy Sleep • Grotesque #3 1993
7500 words
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~ Grotesque [# 3, 1993] ed. David Logan (Logan,
David, £2.50, 51pp, A4); Small press sf/fantasy/horror fiction
magazine. Available from 24 Hightown Drive, NEWTONABBEY, Co
Antrim, N. Ireland, BT36 7TG.
~ Reprinted by Goddess of the Bay. Ed Sandra DeLuca -- circa
1998 http://members.nbci.com/BayGoddess/cassandra.htm "CASSANDRA'S
CRYPT A DARK AND FANTASTIC ANTHOLOGY " Price $4.00. "Longer
length stories from: Stefano Donati, Gabriele A. Rolle', Steve
Burt, Lawrence Dyer, D.M. Yorton, Elizabeth Gruder, Alania
Demerz. Art by: Sandra DeLuca, Dave Fode. " Goddess Of The
Bay P.O. Box 8214 Warwick R.I. 02888
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The Angel of the Moor • The Third Alternative
#1 1994
5500 words
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~ THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE. Andrew Cox, ed. Cambs,
England: TTA Press. THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE is one of Britain's
leading fantasy fiction magazines, second only to Interzone.
TTA was founded in 1994 and is still running in 2006.
~ Reprinted in the anthology LAST RITES & RESURRECTIONS: STORIES
FROM THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE. Andrew Cox, ed. Cambs, England:
TTA Press 1995. 170 pages, paper, 5.99.
~ From http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/n4_r1.html The
Newsletter of The Council for the Literature of the Fantastic
Volume 1, Number 4 (1997) LAST RITES & RESURRECTIONS: STORIES
FROM THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE. Review by Kerstin Ketteman Copyright
© 1996, Kerstin Ketteman: " "The Angel of the Moor," by Lawrence
Dyer, is interesting in the way it handles dualities of love
and nature. The moor is both beautiful and dangerously smothering.
"It was what their grandmother would have called a 'hill-cutter
day' because the hills seemed to be cut from their moorings,
freed and lifted by the fog in the valleys, so that millions
of tons of soil and stone could be seen to float without weight
against the sky. It was an uplifting sight, a day of freedom."
Edward feels a grudging bond to the moor of his childhood
home. Therefore he feels unable to join Rachael, the woman
he loves, in her journey to California. He and his brother's
discovery of a pre-Roman-era corpse buried in the peat becomes
pivotal. Through her, and Edward's mistaken presumption that
she is Rachael, he is confronted with the depth of his emotions
and the stark difference between his own and his brother's
connection to the moor. Ultimately, Edward is released from
his self-inflicted tie to a land he does not love and realizes
the courage to pursue the uncertain promise of a future with
Rachael. "
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Jack Limer’s Monsters • The Third Alternative
#4 1994
5000 words
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~ The Third Alternative [#4, Autumn 1994]
ed. Andy Cox (Third Alternative, £2.50, 52pp, octavo, cover
by Ben Mitchell)
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Slugs and Snails and Puppy-Dogs’ Tails •
Interzone #86 August 1994
6000 words. Illustrated by Russell Morgan.
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~ Selected from Interzone #86 contents:
Jazamine in the Green Wood Chris Beckett
Professionals Keith Brooke
Slugs and Snails and Puppy-Dogs' Tails Lawrence Dyer
~ Re-published as contribution by exclusive guest author at
the Official DF Lewis Website (now at http://weirdmonger.com/)
late in the year 2000 Re-published in online anthology Echoes
Autumn 2001 http://www.isp101.com/~mikenoel/echoes.htm
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Silica • Scheherazade #11 1995
4900 words. Illustrated.
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~ Scheherazade [#11 (1995)] ed. Elizabeth
Counihan (Scheherazade, £1.90, 36pp, A5); Small press fiction
magazine specializing in fantasy, sf and gothic romance. Available
from Elizabeth Counihan, St. Ives, Maypole Road, EAST GRINSTEAD,
West Sussex, RH19 1HL.
~ Silica sparked an unpublished Lawrence Dyer Neolithic fantasy
novel 'The Blood of the Land'.
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Dtohn Mi Mahn-Da • The Third Alternative
#12 1997
9000 words
Colonies • Interzone December 1998
7750 words
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~ Republished in the Storyville online anthology
at Dowse.com
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Spirit O'Wild • Redsine #1 February
2000
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~ Print magazine Ed. Garry J. Nurrish (; North
Ryde, NSW, Australia, A$5.50, 80pp, A5, cover by Mike Philbin)
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The Gravedigger • Nemonymous #1 November
2001
1800 words
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~ Editor: DF Lewis Nemonymous
a print "megazanthus" (a portmanteau word combining magazine
and anthology). Stories published anonymously, with the identities
of contributing authors withheld until the following issue.
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INTERESTING COLLABORATIONS:
Fruit of the Flotsam By Keith Brooke, Lawrence
Dyer, and D.F. Lewis • Oasis (US) and Psychotrope (UK), both
April 2000.
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~ From Keith Brooke's bibliography at InfinityPlus:
"A strange, strange story about a strange, strange place,
written by three strange, strange writers... Lawrence, Des
and I live within a few miles of each other on the North-East
Essex coast and we get together every so often to talk writers'
talk. In October we met at a place called Jaywick: a run-down
shanty-town of holiday homes that have become permanently
settled. Going to Jaywick is like stepping into the Third
World, or the 1930s, with an odd mixture of 1990s thrown in
for good measure. The place made a big impression on the three
of us and we just had to write about it. "
~ From Dragon's Breath (http://freespace.virgin.net/pigasus.press/db67.html)
"PSYCHOTROPE - £2.10/£5.50 Flat 6, 10 Ombersley Rd, Worcester,
WR3 7ET Ish 8 of Mark Beech's genre fic mag incl more "tales
of mad love, psychological horror & surrealism" by Mark McLaughlin,
Helen Kitson, Hugh Cook, Peter Tennant, Matthew Firth, Mark
Astley, Rhys Hughes + 1 piece from trio of DF Lewis, Lawrence
Dyer & Keith Brooke! This may not B most slick pres mag of
today, but it does have unique feel 2 set it apart from DTPd
crowd. ROCKS"
~ And from:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:vm45UboPhcw:
www.psj.contactbox.co.uk/nonfic/psychotrope.htm
++%22Lawrence+Dyer%22&hl=en (Google's cache of: http://www.psj.contactbox.co.uk/nonfic/psychotrope.htm)
"Psychotrope Reviewed by PAUL S. JENKINS [...] "Of the
other stories, my favourite was the only collaborative work
here, "Fruit of the Flotsam," by DF Lewis, Lawrence Dyer and
Keith Brooke. It's a very well written tale of a haunting
in a flooded seaside town." Psychotrope is published
and edited by Mark Beech (A5, saddle-stapled, 56pp, black
and white, £2.10/$5.50 per issue, £7.50/$20.00 'Psychotrope'
Worcester WR3 7ET United Kingdom)."
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Visitors By Keith Brooke, Lawrence Dyer,
and D.F. Lewis
• Published online December 2000 at Aphelion,
The Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/2000/12/visitors3c.htm
Wooden Boys Don't Bleed By Keith Brooke,
Lawrence Dyer, and D.F. Lewis
• STRANGE PLEASURES Summer 2001 (Cosmos Books)
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~ STRANGE PLEASURES (Print anthology), edited
by Sean Wallace summer 2001 (Cosmos Books) www.cosmos-books.com
~ From Keith Brooke's bibliography at InfinityPlus:
"Like the other stories I've written with my Essex neighbours
Lawrence and Des, this was triggered by one of our seaside
walks - this time in Walton-on-the-Naze, where we saw, among
other things, the room above a chip shop where Des was conceived...
'Wooden Boys' is a story of the power of place and memory,
and guilt. Dark secrets loom large. Needless to say, it's
another weird one... "
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The Shoal By D.F. Lewis and Lawrence Dyer
• Published online October 2007 at The
Tenacity of Feathers
BOOKS:
A Cottage on the Moss by Lawrence Dyer •
2003 Library Empyreal (Prime Books)
Hardback, Paperback; Autobiography. 154 pages
ISBN: 1-894815-96-3 Published by Library Empyreal, an imprint of
Prime Books
Cover art by Lauren Halkon Cover design by Luis Rodrigues.
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~ Hardback $29.99 Paperback $15 Autobiography.
154 pages ISBN: 1-894815-96-3 Published by Library Empyreal,
an imprint of Prime Books Cover art by Lauren Halkon Cover
design by Luis Rodrigues.
~ "I really believe Lawrence's is the voice for the future.
His prose style is amazing, limpid stretches of pure beauty
conveying the vibrancies and oxymorons of life and nature.
Can't wait for this book." DF Lewis
~ "A luminous and beautifully-written book
punctuated by hardship and winter scenes that will both delight
and shock" Jeff VanderMeer
~ website about the book at: A
Cottage on the Moss
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