Author: Eamonn Murphy - Writer

Eamonn Murphy has published over seventy stories in small press magazines and collected them into small, cheap volumes for posterity. They are available at all good eBook retailers and libraries. In his spare time, he writes reviews for sfcrowsnest. Retired now after years of hard labour (building sites and call centres), he lives near Bristol, England, with a nice lady, a nasty Jack Russell, an untrainable loony Labrador and some ducks. He has a BA (Hons) from the Open University but very little common sense. Find out more at eamonnmurphywriter.com.

Searching for Space Jesus: “For All These Worlds, a Messiah” Printed in Latest Issue of Outposts of Beyond

I also have a story in this book – Bysen the Beggar Girl. It’s set in the world of The Brigstowe Dragons. Mike Morgan writes entertaining SF and I recommend his work.

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Outposts of Beyond Jan 2019

Priests in space!!!

My story For All These Worlds, a Messiah is now available in the latest issue of Outposts of Beyond, a biannual science fiction magazine published by Alban Lake Publishing. I say magazine, but with this issue, it has switched to being a 190-page long book – a very substantial, very impressive publication that’s well worth your time.

Any description of this story is liable to sound like the opening line of a joke: “A Catholic priest and a Benedictine monk go looking for Jesus in space…” It could’ve been worse – they could’ve been walking into a bar.

As for the Jesus part, that’s the fault of the 40th century CE monk. He reasons that the Lord would want each planet with sapient life to have its own incarnated redeemer, its very own version of Jesus Christ. If they can happen upon a world where that savior…

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Strange Economics

The anthology Strange Economics with my story ‘Expiry Date’ may be up for an Aurora Award in Canada this year. It would be nice to have a story in an award-winning book.

It’s available at Amazon.com and Amazon UK and probably at other Amazon’s too. I’m pleased to note that reviewer Queen of Fractal Beauty said my story was one of her favourites. Praise from Royalty! Here’s the cover.

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Why write when there are plenty of stories already?

Why write when there are plenty of stories already?

Frankly, I don’t know.

Why should people read my five thousand words of fluff when there are a million stories out there already, many of them free? You can get most of the classics for peanuts or nothing as ebooks. A person with literary tastes is indubitably better served by Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac and Edgar Allan Poe than by me. Someone with a few pounds (or dollars) who likes SF and Fantasy could spend the rest of life reading Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Silverberg, Dick, Dan Simmons, Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Stephen Donaldson and all the other greats.

 

So why waste time reading a second-rate writer in the small press?

Hell, I don’t know. But if you want to indulge, here’s my latest publication, a short story entitled ‘Flour Power’ in Mundanities # 1 from Nomadic Delirium Press. It’s set in a near future U.S.A. in which the President makes policy via twitter. I wrote it months ago, just reread it in the magazine and believe it’s okay. There are good stories too by Mike Morgan (one of my favourite writers), W.C. Roberts, Lisa Timpf and Benjamin Whitney Norris.

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Mundanities is available from

Nomadic Delirium Press directly

Smashwords

(Honesty Corner: this is my Smashwords affiliate link and I will grow fat and rich if you buy it here.)

It should also be available from Kobo and other ebook retailers that Smashwords supply, nearly all of them, I think, except the big one below.

Naturally, pragmatically and inevitably it is available at the big one too.  In fact, I strongly urge you to buy it there because Jeff needs the money.

Amazon US

Amazon UK