Paul Cornell’s Short Story From FF2 Free Online!

In support of Fast Forward 2,we’ve put the entirely of the opening story from the anthology online at the new Pyr Sample Chapters page. (If you are viewing this inside the frame of the Pyr site, you might right click to avoid opening a window in a window).

“Catherine Drewe” by two-time Hugo nominee Paul Cornell is a tale of a Bond-like character in an alternate history where the Great Game never ended and the British Empire – along with the other world powers – extends its reach throughout the solar system.

Paul says of the character:

“I like to think I’m writing in the tradition of Ian Fleming’s Bond novels (not the movies) but I’m trying to stay away from pastiche, and instead hope to explore the same debates about masculinity and Britishness he did, while perhaps coming to different conclusions.”