A Better Way to Die - Softcover

Cornell, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907069844 ISBN 13: 9781907069840

Publisher: Newcon Press, 2015

Synopsis

Paul Cornell has written Doctor Who for the BBC, Batman & Robin for DC, and Wolverine for Marvel. He has won the BSFA Award for his short fiction, the Eagle Award for his comics, and shares a Writer's Guild Award for television. He is one of only two people to be Hugo Award nominated for all three media. A Better Way to Die is his first ever short story collection, providing a comprehensive overview of his work. Featured here are both his contributions to George RR Martin's Wildcards series and all the Jonathan Hamilton stories, including "One of Our Bastards is Missing", shortlisted for the Hugo Award in 2010, and "A Better Way to Die", winner of a BSFA Award in 2011. Cover art by Ben Baldwin 1. Introduction by John Scalzi 2. The Deer Stalker 3. Michael Laurits is: DROWNING 4. Global Collider Generation: an Idyll 5. Secret Identity 6. The Occurrence at Slocombe Priory 7. The Sensible Folly 8. More (Wild Cards) 9. The Elephant in the Room (Wild Cards) 10. A New Arrival at the House of Love 11. The Ghosts of Christmas 12. Tom 13. Ramesses on the Frontier 14. Zeta Reticuli 15. Catherine Drewe 16. One of our Bastards is Missing 17. The Copenhagen Interpretation 18. A Better Way to Die

About this title

About the Author:

PAUL CORNELL is a British writer best known for his work in television drama, most notably for "Doctor Who. "Three of his "Doctor Who" episodes have been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. He has written several "Doctor Who "spin-off novels, and created the character Beatrice Summerfield. He has also written for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, and published original novels including "London Falling".

John Scalzi is one of the most popular and acclaimed SF authors to emerge in the last decade. His massively successful debut Old Man s War won him science fiction s John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, and Redshirts; which won 2013 s Hugo Award for Best Novel. Material from his widely read blog The Whatever (whatever.scalzi.com) has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Newcon Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1907069844
• ISBN 13: 9781907069840
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314