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What Is Theaker's Quarterly Fiction?
Theaker's Quarterly Fiction publishes fantasy, science fiction and horror.
The format was initially modelled after that of the Medico-Legal Journal, the official publication of the Medico-Legal Society, and, like that esteemed publication, every issue is designed to be a good, solid read. You can sit down with a cup of tea and lose yourself for a couple of hours in thrills, adventure, laughter and wilful foolishness.
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Print: $11.15 Download: $3.99 “And, as always, the wake of the sun caused temporal havoc. A Razalian hour passed normally enough, then shrank to ten minutes, then sneezed out a good half-day, then stabilised at an hour and a bit. Bobbing on the top of planetary time like corks in a bucket, the three moons spread out and were still — this time like kids glued to a screen. For, as the sunlight disappeared and the minutes passed more confidently, Razalia shook off its desolation. Across its face, a million torches shone under the amethyst skies: Razalian faces, each its own sun.”
Small, unfinished, more like a blueprint for a world than the real thing, Razalia props up one end of the Arc of the Fifteen Planets. In some places, its landscape looks like the efforts of a water-colourist suddenly called away from his easel. The Razalians live with the gaps — those spaces of unfathomable white — in many of their ridges, valleys, forests.
And then the white begins to move…
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Print: $4.77 Download: FREE Here is TQF29, seven stories high. Douglas Thompson takes the lead, with the eerie and poetic "Madame Mortadore & the Clouds". "Foundling" by Nick Sansone follows a painter through a troubled life foretold, while "Imaginary Prisons" by David Tallerman also has a good deal to say on the subject of prophecies. John Hall delivers the last of his forgotten stories to our horror section, "The Feaster from the Stars". Its final image is unforgettable. John Greenwood then lets us have it three times in the third eye, as Newton Braddell wends his hopeless way across the world.
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Print: $4.64 Download: FREE Issue 28 of Theaker's Quarterly Fiction.
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Print: $6.49 Download: FREE TQF27 presents a marvellous novel in full: Operation 1848 by Mike Schultheiss! Plus two short stories: "Orchid Strangelove and the Kiss of the Taipan" by Sam Leng and "Lost Futures" by Cyril Simsa. The issue is rounded out with the usual half-baked reviews, news and editorial musings. A complete novel! Another brilliant cover! It must be Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #27.
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Print: $3.99 Download: FREE This issue of Theaker's Quarterly Fiction has one of our best ever covers, courtesy of the marvellous John Shanks. It shows the three kings doing battle with a demon on their way to Bethlehem. Eric Lowther tells the story in "We Three Kings". In the last of our series of stories by Richard K. Lyon & Andrew J. Offutt, Tiana pays a visit to the "Inn of the White Cat". In John Greenwood's series that never ends, Newton Braddell experiences "The Cruellest Month". And then John Hall tells the chilling story of "The Burrower Beneath". In the last quarter of the issue we have reviews of the latest from PS Publishing, among others. It's a rather shorter issue than usual (we had to hold some material over to next time), but it's a very nice one. The editorial is a bit rubbish – I'm still working through my feelings about losing at NaNoWriMo, so you'll have to bear with me – but if you skip that bit you'll have a great time with TQF#26.
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Print: $6.36 Download: FREE This issue features stories from Ralph Robert Moore, Bob Lock, J.R. Parks, Lyon & Offutt, John Greenwood, John Hall and Rafe McGregor.
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Print: $6.36 Download: FREE Come and see the amazing colossal 75,000-word TQF24! It contains an entire novel by Howard Phillips, The Day the Moon Wept Blood, plus stories by Richard Lyon & Andrew Offutt, John Greenwood and Aaron Polson. There are more reviews than ever before (including a handful from marvellous Rafe McGregor), illustrations by the editor's four-year-old daughter, and the return of our news page, now with actual news!
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Print: $6.36 Download: FREE TQF23 has an enormous (by our standards) review section, lots of great stories, and a terrifyingly long and self-justificatory rant from the editor! Contains: Editors, Writers and Money: in Defence of Amateurs by Stephen Theaker; The Orphans of Time by Wayne Summers (who also provides cover and interior artwork); Newton Braddell and His Inconclusive Researches into the Unknown: At the Mountains of Madness by John Greenwood; Devil on My Stomach: a Tale of Tiana’s World by Richard K Lyon & Andrew J Offutt; When a Baby Laughs by Anna M Lowther; and Shaggai by John Hall.
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Print: $5.17 Download: FREE Issue twenty-two of Theaker's Quarterly Fiction is one of our best yet (I know, I say that every time). From Mike Schultheiss we have "Darwin's Corridor", a rousing tale of action, colonialism, love, anthropology and philosophy on a far-off planet. Though I've enjoyed everything I've published in this magazine, this one probably comes closest so far to being exactly the kind of thing we're looking for. Then we have “The Spirits of ’26”, by Robert Laughlin, a Silverberg-esque story of ambition, dedication and calamity. Sam Leng returns to our pages with “A Matter of Taste”, another short, sharp tap on the shoulder, and Richard K Lyon and Andrew J Offut supply another in their series of Tiana adventures. John Greenwood describes the next events in the unfortunate life of Newton Braddell, researcher unextraordinary.
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Print: $11.93 Download: FREE Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #21 shrinks to A5, but bursts with story: we have two lengthy stories. John Greenwood offers "The Hatchling: Ante-Natal Anxiety", while Wayne Summers presents "The Exile from Naktah".
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Print: $17.08 Download: FREE A compilation of all of 2007's issues of TQF, featuring 46 short stories and novellas, one and a half novels, one six-part serial, five editorials, one manifesto, seven news items, one lost classic of the Silver Age, ten reviews, one obituary, and six comic strips. Authors in this volume include Wayne Summers, Dan Kopcow, Jeff Crouch, Richard K Lyon, Andrew J Offut, Howard Phillips, Mark E Deloy, Laura Bickle, Jeff Crook, Benjamin Spurduto and Eric R Lowther.
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Print: $11.87 Download: FREE This is the bound volume of all six issues of TQF from 2006, containing a total of fourteen short stories, three novellas, nine comic strips, one extract from a novel originally published in another dimension, one play, lots of news and reviews, and one incredible novel in its entirety, His Nerves Extruded by Howard Phillips.
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Print: $9.19 Download: FREE This volume collects all four issues of TQF from 2005. Issue five is devoted in full to The Indigo Skies of Home: Sabaku, by Steven Gilligan. Across issues six and seven a novel is serialised in full - The Fear Man, by the editor's own hand. Issue eight was probably our most important issue to date, presenting three stories that would set the tone for much of the following year: the prologue to Michael Wyndham Thomas's science fantasy epic, Valiant Razalia; "My Rise and Fall", the first published portion of Howard Phillips' Saturation Point Saga; and "The Hidden Game", wherein Newton Braddell's inconclusive researches first began.
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Print: $9.54 Download: FREE Theaker's Quarterly Fiction began publishing in 2004, and this volume collects the entirety of that year's issues. Initially intended as little more than a short-lived practice run for another magazine, it soon became clear that this could carry on and on. The first three issues reprint the editor's earliest novels, Professor Challenger in Space and Quiet, the Tin Can Brains Are Hunting! Issue four is the first issue proper, with all-new material - two tales of Rolnikov's fantastical boyhood, and one transcript of a terrifying movie that Howard Phillips once watched in a dream.
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Disc: $6.36 The album the world's been waiting for! Howard Phillips has finally gathered together enough of his band to produce an album to meet his exacting standards! This is a musical adaptation of SW Theaker's novel, The Fear Man.
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Print: $5.39 Download: FREE Issue twenty of Theaker's Quarterly Fiction presents The Hatchling: Post-Natal Paranoia by John Greenwood, Tales of Yxning: Contrarieties by Bruce Hesselbach, After All: A River. It Had to Be, by Michael Wyndham Thomas, and an apology from Theaker himself for the poor quality service he provides as a book reviewer.
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Print: $5.58 Download: FREE This issue's contents: HORROR. Pumpkin Jack, by Laura Bickle. The Walled Garden by Wayne Summers. FANTASY. Rural Legend by Eric R Lowther. The Iron Mercenary: A Tale of Tiana, by Richard K Lyon & Andrew J Offutt. When the Sun and the Moon Did Not Shine, by Sam Leng. The Remarkable Life of Yren Higbe by Bruce Hesselbach. After All 5, by Michael Wyndham Thomas. SCIENCE FICTION. The Broadest Divide by David McGillveray. Newton Braddell: a Detour by John Greenwood. BIZARRO. Who Picked the Pope’s Nose? by Dan Kopcow. And a review of Zencore! Another great issue of TQF!
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Print: $5.52 Download: FREE The rock just won’t stop! This issue of the munificent and magnificent TQF contains the following stories: “Ananke”, by Jeff Crook (fantasy in the high style); “Winter’s Warm Blood” by Mark E Deloy (horror with a feminine side); “Live to Be Hunted” by Sean & Craig Davis (100% masculine); “Glimmerick”, by Michael McNichols (featuring the magical tree of god!); “La Tierra de la Sangre”, by Benjamin Spurduto (pirate-crazy); “The Tragical History of Weebly Pumrod, Witch Hunter”, by Bruce Hesselbach (the world of Yxning); “After All”, by Michael Wyndham Thomas (antepenultimate engagement); more Newton Braddell by John Greenwood; and reviews of the Transformers movie and Apex #10!
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Print: $5.47 Download: FREE Welcome to TQF#17! In this issue, as ever, like it or not, there are further instalments in the Saturation Point Saga (by Howard Phillips), the researches of Newton Braddell (by John Greenwood), Helen and Her Magic Cat (by Steven Gilligan), and After All (by Michael Wyndham Thomas). Diane Andrews, new to these pages, calculates “The Speed of Darke”, set in a strange world of filtered legend. Richard K Lyon recounts “The Christmas Present War”. Jeff Crouch produces “Glurp”, the first story accepted for this issue. Like the substance in its title, this story stuck with me after my first reading of it, and I felt an uncontrollable compulsion to send the author an acceptance note. Sometimes I read and accept stories late at night, at times when I should really be sleeping. How else to explain the appearance in this serious and august journal of such a lunatic item as Dan Kopcow’s “Gone English”, a tale of the Bearded Avenger?
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Print: $5.33 Download: FREE This issue’s brilliant cover - by John Shanks, proprietor of the Homegrown Goodness website - has doubtless alerted you the main content of this issue: Howard Phillips relates to us The Doom That Came to Sea Base Delta! Then, Lawrence Dagstine, editor of The Literary Bone, brings us “Our Plight on Amaros”, a high concept tale of human despair on an alien world. This issue also brings the next part of After All, by Michael Wyndham Thomas. Wash that down with another sip of Newton Braddell, and then you'll be ready for another Lost Classic of the Silver Age, a tale of one Cleabella Danger, with thanks to the plucky fellow who rescued her book from a space pirate! And dropped into the mix at the very last minute, an extract from the novel-in-progress, Chameleon Man Gets Lost, by Caroline Marwitz: “The Good Fortune Driving School for Men”. Watch out too for the next instalment of Helen and Her Magic Cat!
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Print: $5.09 Download: FREE The Silver Age Treasury of Fantastic Literature! 23 Great Stories: sf, horror, fantasy!
Featuring: The Strange Story of Roland Parsimony ~ The Return of Jak Perceval: Death in the Darkness! ~ The Crumbling Time ~ Insight ~ Shadowplay ~ Zombie Beach Party Kids ~ In The Colony ~ Ice Age ~ Big Ben ~ New Dawn Fades ~ The Great Quatroon ~ The Secret Destination ~ The Wizard Who Chose to Wait ~ Wilderness ~ The Infinity Puppets ~ Glass ~ The Lodger ~ A Mistake At the Fancy Dress Shop ~ I Remember Nothing ~ The Rubber Plant ~ After All ~ Otherwise Detritus ~ Master Zangpan’s Resolution
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Print: $5.09 Download: FREE A great issue of Theaker's Quarterly Fiction, featuring a stunning tale of Valiant Razalia.
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Print: $3.06 Download: FREE The local handout put together for November novel-writing in Birmingham. The cover is blank so that you can do your own illustration for your book!
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Print: $4.75 Download: FREE Issue 30 of Theaker's Quarterly features Citadel Ninety-Nine by Michael Canfield, in which a bloodthirsty army tears its way across a strange, strange world. Also in this issue: John Greenwood, Jon Vagg, K.J. Hays, K.J. Hannah Greenberg, and Ben Thomas & Skadi meic Beorh, who provide "The Periodic Honking of the Fruit-Seller's Truck".
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