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  • Robots in Love
    Rhys Hughes
    While visiting the asteroid L35B05 I saw, in a museum set up for the education of human beings, an artificial crystal of great beauty. It was tetrahedral in shape and each glowing side projected a hologram full of quaint images of those odd beings that had dwelled in this asteroid a very long time ago. After gazing at the output of all four facets with wonder and admiration, I ...
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    17,71 €

  • The Eleventh Commandment
    Rhys Hughes
    Rhys Hughes’ unique observational, aphoristic humour abounds in this collection of artfully crafted, extremely short stories. A perennial master of invention, Hughes explores our perceptions of humanity, mining truths beneath the clutter of culture with incisive wordplay and trademark wit.Hughes has arrayed eighty-eight narrative gems into three groups, The Zodiacal Light, Beyo...
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    12,82 €

  • The Devil’s Halo
    Rhys Hughes
    In death, as in life, paperwork is hell. The paperwork for the recently deceased Monty Zubris needs to be examined and deliberated upon. So, meanwhile, the Devil has consigned him to the Waiting Room of the Afterlife. It is ordered alphabetically, so he is compelled to make his way to his designated zone, which is, of course, near the very end of the chamber. On this voyage of ...
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    27,90 €

  • Students of Myself
    Rhys Hughes
    There are few students in my class. When one considers what the subject is, this isn’t surprising. I teach myself. In other words, I impart to my students facts and fancies based on my life and ideas. It’s the least popular class in the university and I doubt it will be funded for another term. But none of that is my fault. I wanted to teach a proper discipline such as ecology,...
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    20,34 €

  • My Rabbit’s Shadow Looks Like a Hand
    Rhys Hughes
    My Rabbit’s shadowlooks like a handthat has contorted itself in orderto cast the shadowof a rabbit on the wall-a rabbit that looks just likethe shadow of a handcontorted to enable the castingof the shadow of arabbit on the wall... I yearn for a friendto distract my mindfrom this recursionor else to help me enjoy it-a tropical womanher shadow merging with mineon the moonlit stag...
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    10,14 €

  • How Many Times? (Paperback)
    Rhys Hughes
    Rhys Hughes has never been a stranger to experimental fiction and unusual ways of constructing stories, and this mini-collection gathers some of his most far-reaching examples, placed squarely in the world of OuLiPo writing.  Short for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle or the workshop of potential literature, OuLiPo is a grouping of authors who fashion works based on constrain...
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    18,05 €

  • Cloud Farming in Wales
    Rhys Hughes
    In Wales it never stops raining. Or almost never. When it does stop raining from the sky, it rains from hearts instead. Indoors as well as outdoors, the people huddle in the endless drenchings, and over time they have evolved into aquatic creatures who only look and behave like men and women but aren’t really. There is a clue in the name of the country. Wales is a nation with n...
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    16,68 €

  • Sangria in the Sangraal
    Rhys Hughes
    An entire story-cycle in miniature. One thousand years of the remarkable magical history of a secret region of Spain where few people venture even now. Albarracín is a rose-red town tucked away in the mountains of Lower Aragon. Once the seat of an independent taifa during the dominance of the Caliphate of Cordoba, it remained saturated with ancient mystery long after the separa...
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    12,25 €

  • Sangria in the Sangraal
    Rhys Hughes
    An entire story-cycle in miniature. One thousand years of the remarkable magical history of a secret region of Spain where few people venture even now. Albarracín is a rose-red town tucked away in the mountains of Lower Aragon. Once the seat of an independent taifa during the dominance of the Caliphate of Cordoba, it remained saturated with ancient mystery long after the separa...
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    30,39 €

  • Existence is Elsewhen
    et al / John Gribbin / Rhys Hughes
    The title, Existence is Elsewhen, paraphrases the last sentence of André Breton’s 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism, perfectly summing up the intent behind this anthology of stories from a wonderful collection of authors. Different worlds... different times. It’s what Elsewhen Press has been about since we launched our first title in 2011.   Here, we present twenty science fiction s...
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    27,55 €

  • Mirrors in the Deluge
    Rhys Hughes
    Mirrors in the Deluge is a collection of 32 unrelated stories that take elements from fantasy, science fiction, horror and other genres and give them a lateral shift. Like much of Rhys’ work these quirky tales between them encompass parody, pastiche and puns. The fun, as ever, starts with the title of each story - gently leading an unsuspecting reader into preconceived ideas an...
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    28,04 €

  • Thirty Tributes to Calvino
    Rhys Hughes
    A collection of thirty stories inspired by the genius of the writer Italo Calvino...Paradoxical and philosophical fables; impossible cartographies and labyrinths of the mind and heart; towers that stretch across the universe; men who set sail on domestic oceans; the opinions and hopes of the sun; sentient geometries; games with gravity and planets; metafiction and wordplay; rec...
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    13,71 €

  • Bone Idle in the Charnel House
    Rhys Hughes
    For more than two decades, Welsh writer Rhys Hughes has been entertaining and befuddling readers with his distinctive mix of terror, humor, fantasy, and absurdity. Although influenced by such writers as Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, his work is utterly unique in its melding of weirdness and comic grotesquerie. In this substantial collection of new and reprinted stories,...
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    20,11 €

  • The Lunar Tickle
    Rhys Hughes
    Thornton Excelsior is a man but he’s not an individual, he’s a multitude, an ensemble of avatars of himself that can exist in any place at any time. His mission is to do all possible things and most impossible ones. Give him a feather and he will tickle the moon until it laughs; give him a laugh and he will sell it in the market for a story; give him a story and he will give yo...
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    15,33 €

  • Bottled Love Story
    Rhys Hughes
    Love can’t be bottled but it might arrive in a bottle... Love is a game like chess but with smiles, winks, laughs and kisses for pieces... Love is a problem. Is there a solution?Cult author Rhys Hughes answers this question and resolves all the paradoxes in his new novelette. Join the woman who has no need for romance and the sailor from another age as they simultaneously attem...
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    7,28 €

  • Twisthorn Bellow
    Rhys Hughes
    It may come as no surprise that France wants to take over the world again. But this time they plan to go much further and gain control of the spiritual dimensions too, making French the official language of the Afterlife!Twisthorn Bellow is a freshly baked golem who has fallen into a vat of nitro-glycerine, turning him into a living stick of dynamite. As well as battling agains...
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    19,33 €

  • Journeys Beyond Advice
    Rhys Hughes
    A collection of weird tales, monstrous fantasies and ghostly novelettes, some of them inspired by H. P. Lovecraft but cross-pollinated with Jorge Luis Borges and William Hope Hodgson. Nearly all the stories are about doomed souls who set out on journeys for which they will find reasons to regret. Includes the acclaimed novella ’The World Beyond the Stairwell’.''’The World Beyon...
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    23,02 €

  • Rhysop’s Fables
    Rhys Hughes
    Tired of being given good advice in fables and parables by wise men, sages and gurus? Why not try Rhysop’s Fables instead, a set of 207 unhelpful and irresponsible fables? There are no messages here telling you how best to live your life. That kind of thing is entirely up to you! The philosophy of Rhysop’s Fables is that there are no answers to life because life is not a questi...
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    15,61 €

  • The Sticky Situations of Zwicky Fingers
    Rhys Hughes
    Zwicky Fingers is a giant fruit bat detective who lives in the past, present and future simultaneously. He is often consulted by the police force when there are paradoxical, lateral or impossible crimes to be solved. His sticky situations are ten tricky cases, one for each finger of two hands; but hands belonging to whom? That’s just one of the mysteries you may or may not enco...
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    8,76 €

  • Flash in the Pantheon
    Rhys Hughes
    A collection of 123 flash fictions by a writer who has made his reputation as a devoted champion of the short story form. None of the stories in this book are longer than 999 words; most are under 500 words; some are less than 100. The very short story is a noble literary tradition and includes such renowned names as Kafka, Chekhov, O Henry, Frederic Brown, Daniil Kharms and Br...
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    16,22 €

  • The Gloomy Seahorse
    Rhys Hughes
    A book of poetry by cult author Rhys Hughes with more than seventy poems selected from the past twenty years of his writing career and divided into four approximate categories: absurdism, mystical, science fiction and lovey-dovey, followed by an afterword. ...
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    5,56 €

  • More Than a Feline
    Rhys Hughes
    An illustrated volume of cat stories and poems by cult author Rhys Hughes written over the past two decades and collected together for the very first time.Do you want to know what happened when Pushkin came to Shovekin; or how the sausage dog Bangers the Mash helped every cat in the world; or which grey cat drank fifty cups of tea one after the other?If so, you need to read Mor...
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    9,91 €

  • The Just Not So Stories
    Rhys Hughes
    They said it just wasn’t so. But it was!Thirty stories exploring the bizarre and curiously absurd world of cult writer Rhys Hughes.Irony-Whimsy-ParadoxAliens-Mad Scientists-MonstersLiving BicyclesTrumpeters in Outer SpaceWordplayRobots in LingerieThat’s the least of it...Herein you will discover phenomena new not only to science but also to the imagination!Roll up! Roll up!But ...
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    15,26 €

  • Tallest Stories (Paperback)
    Rhys Hughes
    'If every tale told in a tavern is a tall story, then what happens when the entire universe becomes a tavern? It means that every story ever told is tall and therefore untrue, and this includes the true tales. They are all lies. But a lie is a concept only possible because it can be contrasted with truth: without its opposite concept it makes no sense at all. This implies one o...
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    16,64 €

  • Tallest Stories
    Rhys Hughes
    'If every tale told in a tavern is a tall story, then what happens when the entire universe becomes a tavern? It means that every story ever told is tall and therefore untrue, and this includes the true tales. They are all lies. But a lie is a concept only possible because it can be contrasted with truth: without its opposite concept it makes no sense at all. This implies one o...
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    35,17 €

  • The Truth Spinner
    Rhys Hughes
    Castor Jenkins is a Welshman who tells stories that may (or may not) be true...but no matter how fantastic, who can prove they never happened? In the tradition of Lord Dunsany’s ʺThe Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkensʺ and Arthur C. Clarke’s ʺTales of the White Hart,ʺ here is a collection of club stories full of wonder and marvels, as only Rhys Hughes could have told them! 3 ...
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    16,28 €

  • Mister Gum
    Rhys Hughes
    Rhys Hughes plumbs the depths of perversity and satire in the shockingly brilliant novel Mister Gum, which follows the adventures of the world’s most notorious creative writing tutor and his friends. On his way he discovers haunted hymens, Fellatio Nelson and Canon Alberic’s Photo Album. ’A desperately needed antidote to nerd-friendly space fiction and inklingoid fantasy.’ - Th...
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    19,31 €

  • NOWHERE NEAR MILKWOOD
    Rhys Hughes
    Milkwood is not a nice place to be. With the passing of generations, it has curdled. At night it casts a buttery light on the moon. Fortunately, all the action in this book occurs elsewhere. It mostly happens in a warped version of the music industry or in an impossible tavern or in a future where everything is illegal. It sometimes even happens outside the narrative. But never...
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    19,65 €