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Selected Published Writing
• Best
Short Stories
• Interesting
Collaborations
• Books
BEST SHORT STORIES:
The Repairman • Strange
Attractor #2 1992
3000 words
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Various Notes and Comments
~ STRANGE ATTRACTOR #2 and #3:
A5, 56pp, £2 each (4/£7:75) from Strange Attractor,
111 Sundon Road, Houghton Regis, Beds LU5 5NL.
~ "No sooner does the debut issue set tongues
wagging with its full colour cover than Rick Cadger
brings out #2 with more pages and good stories
by Lawrence Dyer, Mike O'Driscoll and P.J.L. Hinder
among others..." From the BBR Directory http://www.bbr-online.com/directory/9403.htm
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The Four-Thousand-Year-Old Boy
• Interzone July 1993
5000 words
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~ Interzone magazine. Ed. David
Pringle. Founded in 1982, Interzone is one of
the world’s leading professional Science Fiction
and Fantasy magazines. Nominated for a Hugo many
years running and winning in 1995. Interzone is
still publishing today (2006) under editor Andy
Cox's stewardship.
~ In 1993 The Four-Thousand-Year-Old Boy was listed
in Locus' Recommended Reading List and Lawrence
was contacted by a film production company about
making the story into a short film for the UK's
Channel Four. Republished online at InfinityPlus
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/ 1999 The
Four-Thousand-Year-Old-Boy
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Skandia • Grotesque #1 1993
4500 words
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~ [Grotesque, April 1993 Auth/Ed:
David Logan Year: 1993 Price: £2.50 Pages: 48]
~ Republished in online anthology
Echoes Autumn 2001 http://www.isp101.com/~mikenoel/echoes.htm
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Their Mossy Sleep • Grotesque
#3 1993
7500 words
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~ Grotesque [# 3, 1993] ed. David
Logan (Logan, David, £2.50, 51pp, A4); Small press
sf/fantasy/horror fiction magazine. Available
from 24 Hightown Drive, NEWTONABBEY, Co Antrim,
N. Ireland, BT36 7TG.
~ Reprinted by Goddess of the Bay. Ed Sandra DeLuca
-- circa 1998 http://members.nbci.com/BayGoddess/cassandra.htm
"CASSANDRA'S CRYPT A DARK AND FANTASTIC ANTHOLOGY
" Price $4.00. "Longer length stories from: Stefano
Donati, Gabriele A. Rolle', Steve Burt, Lawrence
Dyer, D.M. Yorton, Elizabeth Gruder, Alania Demerz.
Art by: Sandra DeLuca, Dave Fode. " Goddess Of
The Bay P.O. Box 8214 Warwick R.I. 02888
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The Angel of the Moor •
The Third Alternative #1 1994
5500 words
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~ THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE. Andrew
Cox, ed. Cambs, England: TTA Press. THE THIRD
ALTERNATIVE is one of Britain's leading fantasy
fiction magazines, second only to Interzone. TTA
was founded in 1994 and is still running in 2006.
~ Reprinted in the anthology LAST RITES & RESURRECTIONS:
STORIES FROM THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE. Andrew Cox,
ed. Cambs, England: TTA Press 1995. 170 pages,
paper, 5.99.
~ From http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/n4_r1.html
The Newsletter of The Council for the Literature
of the Fantastic Volume 1, Number 4 (1997) LAST
RITES & RESURRECTIONS: STORIES FROM THE THIRD
ALTERNATIVE. Review by Kerstin Ketteman Copyright
© 1996, Kerstin Ketteman: " "The Angel of the
Moor," by Lawrence Dyer, is interesting in the
way it handles dualities of love and nature. The
moor is both beautiful and dangerously smothering.
"It was what their grandmother would have called
a 'hill-cutter day' because the hills seemed to
be cut from their moorings, freed and lifted by
the fog in the valleys, so that millions of tons
of soil and stone could be seen to float without
weight against the sky. It was an uplifting sight,
a day of freedom." Edward feels a grudging bond
to the moor of his childhood home. Therefore he
feels unable to join Rachael, the woman he loves,
in her journey to California. He and his brother's
discovery of a pre-Roman-era corpse buried in
the peat becomes pivotal. Through her, and Edward's
mistaken presumption that she is Rachael, he is
confronted with the depth of his emotions and
the stark difference between his own and his brother's
connection to the moor. Ultimately, Edward is
released from his self-inflicted tie to a land
he does not love and realizes the courage to pursue
the uncertain promise of a future with Rachael.
"
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Jack Limer’s Monsters •
The Third Alternative #4 1994
5000 words
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~ The Third Alternative [#4, Autumn
1994] ed. Andy Cox (Third Alternative, £2.50,
52pp, octavo, cover by Ben Mitchell)
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Slugs and Snails and Puppy-Dogs’
Tails • Interzone #86 August 1994
6000 words. Illustrated by Russell
Morgan.
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~ Selected from Interzone #86
contents:
Jazamine in the Green Wood Chris Beckett
Professionals Keith Brooke
Slugs and Snails and Puppy-Dogs' Tails Lawrence
Dyer
~ Re-published as contribution by exclusive guest
author at the Official DF Lewis Website (now at
http://weirdmonger.com/) late in the year 2000
Re-published in online anthology Echoes Autumn
2001 http://www.isp101.com/~mikenoel/echoes.htm
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Silica • Scheherazade #11
1995
4900 words. Illustrated.
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~ Scheherazade [#11 (1995)] ed.
Elizabeth Counihan (Scheherazade, £1.90, 36pp,
A5); Small press fiction magazine specializing
in fantasy, sf and gothic romance. Available from
Elizabeth Counihan, St. Ives, Maypole Road, EAST
GRINSTEAD, West Sussex, RH19 1HL.
~ Silica sparked an unpublished Lawrence Dyer
Neolithic fantasy novel 'The Blood of the Land'.
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Dtohn Mi Mahn-Da • The Third
Alternative #12 1997
9000 words
Colonies • Interzone December
1998
7750 words
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~ Republished in the Storyville
online anthology at Dowse.com
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Spirit O'Wild • Redsine
#1 February 2000
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~ Print magazine Ed. Garry J.
Nurrish (; North Ryde, NSW, Australia, A$5.50,
80pp, A5, cover by Mike Philbin)
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The Gravedigger • Nemonymous
#1 November 2001
1800 words
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~ Editor: DF Lewis Nemonymous
a print "megazanthus" (a portmanteau word combining
magazine and anthology). Stories published anonymously,
with the identities of contributing authors withheld
until the following issue.
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INTERESTING COLLABORATIONS:
Fruit of the Flotsam By Keith
Brooke, Lawrence Dyer, and D.F. Lewis • Oasis (US)
and Psychotrope (UK), both April 2000.
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~ From Keith Brooke's bibliography
at InfinityPlus:
"A strange, strange story about a strange, strange
place, written by three strange, strange writers...
Lawrence, Des and I live within a few miles of
each other on the North-East Essex coast and we
get together every so often to talk writers' talk.
In October we met at a place called Jaywick: a
run-down shanty-town of holiday homes that have
become permanently settled. Going to Jaywick is
like stepping into the Third World, or the 1930s,
with an odd mixture of 1990s thrown in for good
measure. The place made a big impression on the
three of us and we just had to write about it.
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~ From Dragon's Breath (http://freespace.virgin.net/pigasus.press/db67.html)
"PSYCHOTROPE - £2.10/£5.50 Flat 6, 10 Ombersley
Rd, Worcester, WR3 7ET Ish 8 of Mark Beech's genre
fic mag incl more "tales of mad love, psychological
horror & surrealism" by Mark McLaughlin, Helen
Kitson, Hugh Cook, Peter Tennant, Matthew Firth,
Mark Astley, Rhys Hughes + 1 piece from trio of
DF Lewis, Lawrence Dyer & Keith Brooke! This may
not B most slick pres mag of today, but it does
have unique feel 2 set it apart from DTPd crowd.
ROCKS"
~ And from:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:vm45UboPhcw:
www.psj.contactbox.co.uk/nonfic/psychotrope.htm
++%22Lawrence+Dyer%22&hl=en (Google's cache of:
http://www.psj.contactbox.co.uk/nonfic/psychotrope.htm)
"Psychotrope Reviewed by PAUL S. JENKINS [...]
"Of the other stories, my favourite was the
only collaborative work here, "Fruit of the Flotsam,"
by DF Lewis, Lawrence Dyer and Keith Brooke. It's
a very well written tale of a haunting in a flooded
seaside town." Psychotrope is published and
edited by Mark Beech (A5, saddle-stapled, 56pp,
black and white, £2.10/$5.50 per issue, £7.50/$20.00
'Psychotrope' Worcester WR3 7ET United Kingdom)."
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Visitors By Keith Brooke, Lawrence
Dyer, and D.F. Lewis
• Published online December
2000 at Aphelion, The Webzine of Science Fiction and
Fantasy
http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/2000/12/visitors3c.htm
Wooden Boys Don't Bleed By Keith
Brooke, Lawrence Dyer, and D.F. Lewis
• STRANGE PLEASURES Summer 2001 (Cosmos Books)
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~ STRANGE PLEASURES (Print anthology),
edited by Sean Wallace summer 2001 (Cosmos Books)
www.cosmos-books.com
~ From Keith Brooke's bibliography
at InfinityPlus:
"Like the other stories I've written with my Essex
neighbours Lawrence and Des, this was triggered
by one of our seaside walks - this time in Walton-on-the-Naze,
where we saw, among other things, the room above
a chip shop where Des was conceived... 'Wooden
Boys' is a story of the power of place and memory,
and guilt. Dark secrets loom large. Needless to
say, it's another weird one... "
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The Shoal By D.F. Lewis and
Lawrence Dyer
• Published online October 2007 at The
Tenacity of Feathers
The Body
By Lawrence Dyer and David Mathew
• Published online April 2009 at Demonic
Tome
BOOKS:
A Cottage on the Moss by Lawrence
Dyer • 2003 Library Empyreal (Prime Books)
Hardback, Paperback; Autobiography.
154 pages ISBN: 1-894815-96-3 Published by Library Empyreal,
an imprint of Prime
Books Cover art by Lauren Halkon Cover design by
Luis Rodrigues.
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~ Hardback $29.99 Paperback $15
Autobiography. 154 pages ISBN: 1-894815-96-3 Published
by Library Empyreal, an imprint of Prime Books
Cover art by Lauren Halkon Cover design by Luis
Rodrigues.
~ "I really believe Lawrence's is the voice for
the future. His prose style is amazing, limpid
stretches of pure beauty conveying the vibrancies
and oxymorons of life and nature. Can't wait for
this book." DF Lewis
~ "A luminous and beautifully-written
book punctuated by hardship and winter scenes
that will both delight and shock" Jeff VanderMeer
~ website about the book at: A
Cottage on the Moss
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