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Welcome to the new online
version of The Bumper Book of Lies by Chris Bell. The Bumper Book of
Lies: a collection of 20 short stories. Off-beat literature from
international fiction
magazines such as The Third Alternative; Not One Of Us;
Grotesque; The Edge; If you would like a printable, PDF file of any of the stories you have seen on this site, email me with the title of the story in the subject line and I will send it to you by return, free of charge: chrisb[at]xtra[dot]co[dot]nz. Read the Foreword.
The following
stories were first accepted for publication: ‘On Formosa Street’ in
Takahe (New Zealand), Medusa’s Hairdo (USA) and Story
Cellar (England); ‘The Madagascar’ in Zygote (Canada); ‘In The
Last Light of the Triple Sun’ in The Zone (England); ‘Bob’s Date’,
‘Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman’ and ‘Desert Ballet’ in
Sivullinen (Finland); ‘A Glum Bureaucracy’ in Axiom (Wales);
‘The Leg Man’ in Grotesque (Ireland); “Skins Out!” in Sierra
Heaven, Threads (England) and as ‘The Dream Virus’ in
TransVersions (Canada); ‘Multi Bob’ in Zygote (Canada);
‘Flake’ in Chronicles of Disorder (England); ‘The Cruel Countess’ in
The Third Alternative (England), The Heidelberg Review
(Germany) and The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror—10th Annual Edition
(USA); ‘Detox Mansion’ in Auslander (England) and in the Farseer
e-zine; ‘What’s In A Name’ in Auslander (England); ‘The Boom on
Mizar-5’ in Not One of Us (USA); ‘The Locum, Yellow Rose’ in The
Edge (England) and an edited version in Not One of Us (USA); ‘This
Shining World’ in The Sunday Samoan (Samoa). The following stories have
yet to appear in print: ‘Dream Me An Island’; ‘Wide Awake and Half Asleep’; and
‘Postcards from Nashville, Tennessee’.
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Medusa’s Hairdo; TransVersions;
Premonitions; Sierra Heaven; and the Farseer e-zine.
Acclaimed in the pages of Zene; Asimov’s Science Fiction;
Infidels & Popstars; and Dragon’s Breath by critics such
as Rhys Hughes, Gary Couzens and Paul di Filippo, the collection features a
story chosen for Ellen Datlow’s annual US anthology The Year’s Best Fantasy
& Horror (1996), published by St Martin’s Griffin Press (New York) in
July 1997 — in which it appeared alongside stories by Nobel Prize for Literature
winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez and bestselling author Tanith Lee. 