Articles

Futile Resistance
Why do all landing parties wear nearly identical uniforms? This and many other Star Trek mysteries examined.
Author: G.F.Willmetts

Is SF a Literate or Ideas Art-Form?
Good writing and SF seem to be poor bedfellows - or do they?
Author: G.F.Willmetts

So You Really Want to Write SF?
Chapter 1: The guide for everybeing
Author: G.F.Willmetts

To There and Back Again
Chapter 2: Using and Understanding Science Fiction Nomenclature
- space travel dilemmas in Science Fiction
Author: G.F.Willmetts

Past and Pretense
Chapter 3: Using and Understanding Science Fiction Nomenclature
- time travel problems in Science Fiction
Author: G.F.Willmetts

Something in MIND
Chapter 4: Using and Understanding Science Fiction Nomenclature
- Psionics in Science Fiction
Author: G.F.Willmetts

Fiction

Eat Me
Prospecting in the outer rim planets. SF
Author: Geoff Willmetts

A Trip to Planet S.
Exploring planets was never like this with Star Trek's away team. SF
Author: Marion Kelt

The Manchester Mechanism
War is heck, in any parallel. Especially when its the British Empire fighting those blasted American again. SF
Author: CS Barlow

Love me not, love me
Time travel and love? Can these two ever mix. SF
Author: Geoff Willmetts

Inconvenient
What would you do if hell established itself in your back garden? Crap youself, probably. Fantasy
Author: CS Barlow

Philanthropus Wilding's Grand Day Out
Philanthropus Wilding meets a demon, and the demon isn't happy. Fantasy
Author: Steven Conoboy

Tarred and Feathered
A girl called Chance and a talking chicken - what more could you want out of a story? Fantasy
Author: Steven Conoboy

Moth to a Lamp
From the mental diary of Christopher Lancier: a Psi-Kicks story. That future private dick sure can kick some ass.
Author: G.F.Willmetts

Major Transcendent
The British Prime Minister has a problem. But can an astrologer sort it out?
Author: M.M O'Driscoll

The Man with the Foot-Long Nose
Genetic disasters can lead to some strange shaped noses. SF
Author: H. Turnip Smith

Shell Game
When you have a problem in the future, there's only one man you can rely on. And he ain't cheap. A Psi-Kicks story.
Author: G.F.Willmetts

NOVELS - SAMPLE CHAPTERS

Stephen Hunt's For The Crown & The Dragon.
Publishers: WH Smith/Green Nebula Imprint. ISBN 0-9522885-0-8

Buckle your swash up - then dodge the sabres, sorcery and musket smoke in this thrilling alternative-reality fantasy adventure. This is the novel that created the flintlock fantasy genre.

Voted best fantasy novel of 1996 by Roleplayer Independent magazine. The only fantasy novel to be published directly by the UK's largest bookseller, WH Smith, under their encouraging new talent initiative.

The 'Shunt This' Fan Area

For all those pests in the Stephen Hunt Newsgroup ('shunters' in fan parlance) who have been demanding more of his fiction on HT's pages, here's your very own corner.

A Colder War
Short fiction: Veitnam invades America in the 1960s

The Ruffler and the Highwayman
Short fiction: Fantasy short set in the Triple Realm universe of For The Crown and the Dragon.

Resurrection View
Short fiction: America after the plague was never meant to be like this

In The Domain of Arnheim
Short fiction: An Agent Orange story (these are the tales a certain TV producer was very 'influenced' by about three years ago).

The Strange Intervention of Sir Wollington-Wroxley-Wribble
Short fiction: Life as a courtier in the galaxy's largest body politic can be a hectic - and dangerous - affair.

The Fall of the Dove
Short fiction: Trench warfare in the 21st century is a dirty business.

A Sword Cuts
Short fiction: Does murder on a dead world count? A legion of Vacuum Devils are sent to find out.

Mary C.
Short fiction: Another Agent Orange story. An assassin is in London, but has he been sent from the future or the past?

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The Guns of the Wisdom
Novel; sample chapters: What on earth made a young dilettante like Horatio Bard want to leave the comfortable hedonistic paradise of Terra for a deadly adventure across the stars? Well, he was kidnapped.

For if it Prosper
Novel; sample chapters: They said the Victorians didn't have a secret service to combat the likes of the Tsar, Captain Nemo, Abe Lincoln and Bismark. Guess they were wrong.

These two novels are still unpublished. Interested publishers can contact my agent, Maggie Noagh, to bid for these (same agent who represents Stephen Baxter etc).

Dab hand with a quill? Written any SF & Fantasy short fiction?
Mail SF Crowsnest with your manuscripts & a SAE c/o Geoff Willmetts, 74 Gloucester Road, Bridgwater, Somserset, TA6-6EA, UK! Not by email though please - it's too big & blows our mailbox. Read the writer's guidelines first to see what HT is looking for.

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