Fiction

	Title	Editor rating (1-5)	Reader rating
	NetherWorld - Daniel Pagan - Nick unwittingly opens a portal from planet Karbonon to NetherWorld; a parallel universe that exists inside his computer. Nick's guide, a dizzy blue sphere named WhizzyWig, takes him deep inside a Walled City filled with Bytes, Beserks and Phish Pirates. But dark forces are at work. And the...	3	4.5
	New Bridge to Lyndesfarne - Trevor Hopkins - Kevin is a talented but lonely forty-something who is commissioned to design a replacement bridge between our world and a magical parallel universe called Lyndesfarne. In Lyndesfarne, modern technology does not work, but a sophisticated society functions using pervasive magic. Accompanied...	3	4.5
	Night of Knives - Jon Evans - Veronica Kelly came to Africa to start her life over. Still reeling from her divorce, she is grateful when a handsome stranger invites her to join a tour to visit gorillas in Uganda's wild Impenetrable Forest — a trip that goes desperately wrong when their group is captured by brutal gunmen....	5	4.2
	No Further Messages - Brett Savory - WARNING some readers may be upset by the extreme violence in some of the stories. No Further Messages comprises 21 hard-hitting horror short stories. The subjects are not supernatural but deal instead with the more worldly evils of murder, violence, insanity, and torture....	5	3.6
	Noisome Beasts - Robert Chatham - If one must live in New Mexico, Todd thought, one must have ample mouthfuls of onion rings. This short novel tells the compelling story of Todd, a young rapper who is determined to seek out Reginald Vel Johnson, the man who played Carl Winslow in the hit TV show Family Matters...		3
	Omnibus of Short Stories - Vol 1 - Terence Gibbons - The 17 stories in this volume were written between 1970 and 1984. Naturally I have chosen only what I consider to be the best of my work for that period after which I moved on to writing full length books. The first in this volume is the one I like best and has earned me the most revenue. It is...	4
	One Minute After - Eric Diehl - An anthology of horror, science fiction and fantasy; some dark and some light, but all a challenge to your imagination. We will begin with an experiment in nano-biotechnology gone very wrong, and, if you do not perish in transit, end in a desperate alternate reality on Olde Aearth; emerging with...
	Open Pen - issue 1 - Open Pen - The first issue of Open Pen features James King and his children’s adventure piece ‘The Giant Tree’. When the story first came to us we were delighted that we’d found a story so strong, so well written, so early in our campaign to find the best of London’s aspiring writers. The story follows a...		3.5
	Open Pen - issue 2 - Open Pen - Open Pen's second issue starts with Pure Fields, Anna Harvey's thoughtful tale of a young lady caught between her past and her present. It is a credit to the writer that the story flows so eloquently whilst steering clear of sentimental irreverence. The second...		3
	Open Pen - issue 3 - Open Pen - Open Pen's third issue contains an interesting editorial from Joe Borges about the importance of literature as a shared experience - the printed word is not dead! 'Stories' by Eddie Wilson explores a writer who has been tasked with collecting the anecdotes of residents of a decrepit housing...