Derryl Murphy’s first collection is back: There are eleven stories in this collection, ten of them gathered together for the first time and one making its debut in these pages. All of them examine our experience with the worlds around us, anticipating dread and disaster with every turn, even while hope is sometimes allowed to win out. Come witness: the destruction of the Earth; an alien tourist and the death of a species; Earth at the end of time, coming back from a very long trip; a man and his father, lost in time; sailing on seas of garbage; an insect rebellion; a virtual future that creates an unrealistic past; water, politics, and a big machine; monkey-wrenching taken to a new level; lessons in photography; and rebellion

Born in Nova Scotia, raised in Edmonton, Alberta, and followed by stints in Logan, Utah and Prince George, BC, Derryl Murphy now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with his wife and two sons. When he isn't writing, Derryl referees and coaches soccer, and continuing the soccer theme cheers on his boys as they play.
His first short story, "Father Time," appeared in Tesseracts 4 in 1992. Since then, he's sold numerous stories to magazines and anthologies. In 2005 his first book, Wasps at the Speed of Sound, came out from Prime Books. A collection of ecological science fiction stories, it holds ten reprints and one original short story. In 2009, Derryl co-wrote Cast a Cold Eye with William Shunn, a novella of ghosts and the Spanish flu which was released by PS Publishing. He has been nominated three times for Canada's Aurora Award, once for a science fiction review column he once wrote, once for his short story "Body Solar," and once for "Mayfly," a short story he co-wrote with Peter Watts.
Derryl's newest book is the novel Napier's Bones, released in March of 2011 by ChiZine Publications. A mathematical dark fantasy/suspense thriller, the novel has been called a "surprising and all too rare treat."

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