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Hugh Cook |
Hugh [Walter Gilbert] Cook was born in Essex, England, in 1956. Educated in New Zealand, he now lives in Japan and teaches English. Hobby: hiking in the mountains.  hughcook@hughcook.comBOOKS London: Robert Hale, 1980 (0-7091-8707-6) and Palmerston North, New Zealand: the Dunmore Press, 1980 (0-908564-48-1)
THE SHIFT THE SHIFT - a deadly weapon in the wrong hands, an amazing novel in anyone’s hands. The human hunger for sex and power remain the same after the first thermonuclear war, but everything else has changed in the world of THE SHIFT. Earth’s Big Man, Iridian Troy, has formed an unholy alliance with the Spang, an alien race that now rules the planet due to their perfect control of the Shift, a device that can relocate both space and time, with results that are not beneficial. The only person to stand up against Iridian Troy and the evil fluorescent-orange Spang is a conscience-ridden Handel aficionado and, incidentally, Troy’s righthand man - Gabriel Arkhangel. His attempt to make all things right, free the Earth from the Spang, and survive the Big Man’s daughter’s quest for information on the female orgasm turns his hair from black to blond and propels us to a cataclysmic finale. 12 February 1987 (0-224-02389-6) Vintage Books (Random House) June 1987 (0-394-74739-9) CHRONICLES OF AN AGE OF DARKNESS Although the ten volumes in this series form part of a vast fantasy epic, each is a complete and spectacular tale in its own right. The paperbacks listed here are copies of the Corgi editions Colin Smythe Ltd bought from Transworld. As they are now only available from this company, in order to avoid confusion, they have been allocated new International Standard Book Numbers.
The Wizards and the
Warriors (1) SHORT STORIES ‘Consenting
Adults’ In Fantasy and Science Fiction (ISSN 1095-8258) Vol. 95, number 6, December 1998, pp. 99-113. Science fiction time travel story. ‘Outing’ In Sierra Heaven Issue 4½, 1998, pp. 30-33. Science fiction story. ‘Night on Bear Mountain’ In Challenging Destiny (ISSN 1206-6656) Issue 5, January 1999, pp. 94-114. Science fiction virtual reality story. ‘An Alien in Japan’ In Sackcloth and Ashes (ISSN 1462-2211), Issue 3, March 1999, pp. 55-63. Science fiction story. ‘Howie Glenst and the Woman made from Glass’ In Albedo One (ISSN 0791-8534), Issue 18, 1999, pp. 4-6. Science fiction virtual reality story. ‘The Succubus’ In Talebones (ISSN 1084-7197) Issue 15, Spring 1999, pp. 14-27 ‘The Earth is Flat’ In Challenging Destiny (ISSN 1206-6656) Issue 5, April 1999, pp. 81-93. ‘Her Mint-Green Breath’ In Talebones (ISSN 1084-7197) Issue 16, Summer 1999, pp. 4-15. ‘Invasion of the Chickens’ In Challenging Destiny (ISSN 1206-6656) Issue 7, August 1999, pp. 37-48. ‘Remembering Nagasaki’ In Zeist Issue 8, Autumn 1999, pp. 26-32. ‘Mountaineering Complex’ In Barbaric Yawp Volume 3, Number 3, September 1999, pp. 18-20. ‘Machine Readable’ In The Dream Zone (ISSN 1464-6609) Issue 4, October 1999, pp. 17-23. In 1998 Hugh Cook's as-yet-un-published novella ‘Snow is White’ received an Honorable mention in the UPC Prize competition organised by the Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. BACK |
