Commercial Break: TIME OUT

A new novella, from Subterranean Press

I’m delighted to announce to the availability of a new novella, called Time Out.

Rather than tell you about it myself, I’ll use the excellent jacket blurb written by the beyond-estimable David Schow…

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You wake up and the world is different.

Not in the disaster movie sense, but much more painful and purposeful—almost sinister.

In the tradition of Lonely Road, Gone, The Disappearance and I Am Legend comes Michael Marshall Smith’s Time Out, a brand new novella of displacement and unease.

Imagine waking up, as normal, but today the world is different: There aren’t any people in it.

“Somewhere between 1am and 6am, everybody had disappeared.”

How do you behave? What do you do? How do you change?

That disagreement you had with your wife yesterday doesn’t freight so heavily now that the whole slate has been wiped…does it?

Should it?

Michael Marshall Smith wins awards for this sort of thing.

Are you prepared to cope with real emptiness?

Maybe the entire world hasn’t changed.

Maybe you have.

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Your Questions Answered

Having announced this on Twitter the other day and received probing enquires about it, I shall tell you the following ahead of time:

1. Time Out is a novella of about twenty four thousand words, thus not a full novel.

2. It costs $45, which is indeed not cheap. That’s because it’s a Signed Limited Edition hardcover from a small press, the lifeblood of the genre fiction world in good times and bad. An eBook edition is available for $4.99.

3. The book is available direct from Subterranean Press, who are in the US. That means, sadly, that mailing costs to the rest of the world ain’t cheap — a fact which is beyond both my and the publisher’s control. Hopefully copies will start to crop up on Amazon in other territories.

4. A review of the novella from Publishers’ Weekly is below. You can’t press the red button in the image. The book is available here.

Thank you for reading this — and if you do purchase the book, I hope you enjoy it.

Let me know!

Purchase here.