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Striking Fire
Striking Fire
Striking Fire
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A lonely, overweight vampire tends a sleazy video store in inner-city Sydney...

A multi-billionaire sacrifices everything to become Earth's first ambassador to the stars...

A legendary time-travelling assassin finds himself pitted against the greatest detective that never was...

A young father goes to extraordinary lengths to save his child after a car accident...

A collection of works old and new from the pen of Tasmanian author Dirk Flinthart, these stories deliver a perilous gauntlet of speculative fiction from contemporary fantasy through thoughtful science fiction all the way to disturbing horror. A dizzying, eclectic display of accomplished storytelling grounded in a deeply human emotional landscape, this book is sure to strike fire.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

the first martian (original to collection)
the flatmate from hell
the ballad of farther-on jones
collateral damage
eschaton and coda
faith (original to collection)
truckers
fortitude valley station, 2.15am
a friend in the trade (original to collection)
granuaile
sanction (a Night Beast story)
no hard feelings (original to collection)
the fletcher test
the last word
outlines
tough (original to collection)
walker
one night stand
gaslight a go go
parity check
night shift (original to collection)

LanguageEnglish
PublisherTehani Croft
Release dateOct 2, 2015
ISBN9780987400079
Striking Fire
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Dirk Flinthart

Dirk Flinthart writes from the northeast of Tasmania, where he has settled to raise dangerous children and wait out the coming environmental, economic and social shitstorm. He's been writing for over ten years now, though mostly in small press, and favours speculative fiction — not least because (having three small children) he mostly writes short works. Recent years have seen his work in Twelfth Planet Press, Andromeda Spaceways, Agog! Press, Ticonderoga Press and a bunch of other like-minded places.Flinthart's interests, like most writers, are too varied to bother mentioning here, but shortlisting them to martial arts, cooking,offbeat cinema, animation and glass mosaic-work would be a good start. He's editing an anthology called "Canterbury 2100: Pilgrimages in a new world" for Agog! Press, is training for an advanced ju-jitsu grading, studying Iaido, and has just signed up for a course in fencing. The smart money says Flinthart is certifiably mad. Having no money to speak of, Flinthart laughs at such trifles — albeit somewhat manically.

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