Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder

Dust jacket by Nick Stathopoulos

Fear and wonder, a powerful combination.

Terry Dowling is one of the best kept secrets in modern science fiction, fantasy and horror, a storyteller that Grand Master Jack Vance in his introduction calls, “A very talented writer, one I admire and respect.”

Now, for the first time, Amberjack: Tales of Fear & Wonder gives us the best of Terry’s recent uncollected work in a single wonderful volume. From invasion by the truly alien in “The Lagan Fishers”, “Truth Window” and “Flashmen” to the gut-wrenching horror of “Toother” and “The Suits at Auderlene”, from the day-after-tomorrow, hardline SF of “He Tried to Catch the Light” to the epic sweep and swashbuckling adventure of “The Library”, this is imaginative storytelling as it should be: provocative, unsettling, beautifully crafted, full of invention and genuine surprise and, yes, a definite touch of the dark side.

Table of Contents

• Introduction by Jack Vance
• Preface
• Amberjack
• The Lagan Fishers
• Glencoe
• The Fooly
• Now, Then, Everywhen
• The Magikkers
• The Lure of Legendary Ladies
• He Tried to Catch the Light
• Bermudas
• Flashmen
• The Blue Marlin Whore
• Toother
• China in His Day
• The View in Nancy’s Window
• Mr. Fate & Mr. Danger
• Jarkman at the Othergates
• Ithaca
• Some Roses for the Bonestell Man
• Gantry Jack
• The Suits at Auderlene
• At the Sign of the Moon
• Truth Window: A Tale of the Bedlam Rose
• Down in the Limbo Gardens
• The Library
• Déjà-vu

Limited to 750 signed numbered hardcover copies and sold out at the publisher