Publications of the type:

Fiction

  • “Inference”

    Around lunchtime on their third day crossing the wetlands, Mikkel had seen more forms of fungus than he’d ever imagined could possibly exist. Many of them he would never have identified as such, were it not for the Herbalist’s inexhaustible commentary. The fungi that actually looked the way he expected a mushroom to look hardly…

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  • “Facing Kiruna”

    ‘Raven does an excellent job of being earnest […] while also genuinely telling a story.’ / ‘It’s a powerful story on many levels.’ Alexandra Pierce, Locus (January 2023)

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  • “Staunch”

    Republished in Best of British Science Fiction 2016 (Newcon Press) Each story in this outstanding collection is set in a near-future society with intriguing technological advances, but the social and cultural implications of these developments vary widely […] Paul Graham Raven’s “Staunch” takes a dystopian view of copyright and license agreements that affect custom-built organs.…

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  • “A Boardinghouse Heart”

    It’s a detective story — or at least it’s a story with a detective in it — set on the slippery streets of a richly realised city. The protagonist, as should be the case in all good noir stories, is hopelessly out of his depth and beset by those more powerful and cleverer than he…

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  • “Los Piratas del Mar de Plástico”

    Republished in Year’s Best Science Fiction #32, ed. Gardner Dozois (2015) … [t]he best stories [in TT2014] are Lauren Beukes’s “Slipping” and Paul Graham Raven’s “Los Piratas del Mar de Plastico”, both of which manage to inject human drama into their visions of the future, as well as characters you care about who are faced with…

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