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Future Bristol (Paperback)

by Colin Harvey (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 244 pages
  • Publisher: Swimming Kangaroo (1 April 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1934041939
  • ISBN-13: 978-1934041932
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 387,943 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Read!, 17 April 2009
By Francis Ludlow (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
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As you will, no doubt, guess from the title, Future Bristol is a themed anthology featuring short stories that all focus on the City of Bristol. Themed anthologies can be something of a doubled edged sword, on the one hand offering several takes on a particular theme, on the other hand limiting the scope for variety. The danger is that contributors will have felt hemmed in by the brief for the book and that this comes across in the writing. The challenge for the writers, and editor Colin Harvey in putting together Future Bristol, was to use the theme of Bristol in the future as a springboard for a range of entertaining and varied stories. Has Harvey achieved this?
There are nine stories in total, including good work by Liz Williams, Gareth L. Powell, Christina Lake and John Hawkes-Reed amongst others. Three stories in particular merit serious attention. Joanne Hall's `Pirates of the Cumberland Basin' vividly presents a future flooded Bristol replete with pirates, an unscrupulous Japanese business man, a revived slave trade and an under resourced police force trying to deal with it all. `Thermoclines' by Colin Harvey depicts a genuinely alien and remote future Bristol where humankind has largely disserted Earth and left behind a ragtag of radically genetically altered semi-humans. The harsh realities of living in this destroyed Earth are brilliantly conveyed. Finally, the closing story, `The Sun in the Bone House' by Jim Mortimore, alone is worth the price of entry. An incredibly ambitious piece, it tells the story of a young girl who becomes a seer of sorts and lives through millennia in the Bristol area, effecting change at pivotal moments in its history. It beautifully links past, present and future into an intrinsically interrelated loop and is at times almost poetic in its emotional impact.
Apart from the quality of the writing and the ideas presented in the standout stories, the fact that they are irrevocably connected with Bristol specifically is also why these stories work so well, given the brief for this anthology. Has Harvey succeeded? Yes, spectacularly.
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