Robert Shearman

Synopsis

Tiny Deaths is a genre-blurring, gravity-defying debut collection from the acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Rob Shearman. Using the full armoury of speculative and science fiction, not to mention the stranger constructions of psychology, to shine light on a raft of our most personal and metaphysical assumptions, to unwind the emotional complexes of seemingly ordinary relationships, and to portray characters discovering themselves all over again. Alien intelligence, universal foresight, imaginary children, and conversations with Hitler’s daschund all conspire to offer an hilarious and continually surprising journey through the most realistic of concerns.

Reviews

Praise for Rob Shearman

Shearman offers us haunting, nightmare alternatives to our world, worlds that are utterly recognisable as ours, thanks to the way he always picks out the comically mundane among the impossible and the fantastical. The dream-like logic of them - the simple acceptance of this as the status quo, rather than some mood-sapping attempt at explanation - makes each story cling to you; forces you to make sense of it and somehow inhabit it.
– Steven Moffat

A brilliant collection of page-turning twists, an extraordinary comic understanding, even Jesus with jokes.
– Martin Jarvis

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Details
ISBN 978 190558314
Publisher Comma Press
Genre Short Fiction
Extent 224pp