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World's Collider: A Shared-World Anthology by [Steven Savile, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Trent Zelazny, James Moran, Aaron Rosenberg, Jonathan Green, Kelly Hale, Richard Wright, Jonathan Templar, Richard Salter]

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The Collision is the worst disaster in human history. So far…

In the near future, an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider causes an enormous explosion, known as the Collision. The blast flattens a huge chunk of central Europe and punches a massive hole in the Earth’s surface. Over the next decade, unspeakable horrors pour from the rift: vicious creatures with a taste for human flesh, a terrible scream that drives all who hear it insane, a phantom entity that feeds on fear and paranoia, and a nightmare train from the pits of hell, to name but a few. This onslaught of terror causes the collapse of civilization and threatens to wipe humanity from the planet.

World’s Collider is a unique concept in short fiction, where all eighteen original stories are part of a common narrative, recounting the disaster and its aftermath. A true novel by many voices, including Steven Savile, James Moran, Aaron Rosenberg, Trent Zelazny, Jonathan Green, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Kelly Hale, Richard Wright and a host of new talent.

Fifty million people died in the Collision. They were the lucky ones…

"Each component cranks up the tension and the disparate tales combine in mosaic-fashion to deliver a truly gripping narrative." - Ian Whates, author of The Noise Within

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8 December 2013
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008J9X2P4
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Nightscape Press; 1st edition (8 December 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1088 KB
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Richard Salter has been writing and editing for over 25 years. He is the editor of a Doctor Who anthology (Short Trips: Transmissions), a post-apocalyptic mosaic novel (World's Collider), and co-editor of the charity anthology Fantasy For Good, featuring stories by Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, Piers Anthony, and many others. All proceeds go to The Colon Cancer Alliance.
His debut novel, The Patchwork House, is a haunted house chiller mixed with time travel, and was published by Nightscape Press. 2017 saw the release of his first thriller, co-written with Steven Savile. Shining Ones is book five of the Ogmios Directive series. He also edited a reissue of the bestselling Ogmios novel Silver, also by Savile, and it's long-awaited sequel, Gold. His short fiction appears in various anthologies including Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction, Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix the Anthology, Sharkpunk, Horror for Good and This is How You Die (Machine of Death 2).
By day he works as a project manager for a telecom software vendor, and he lives with his wife, two sons, a dog and a cat in the suburbs of Toronto, Canada.
Find out more at http://www.richardsalter.com
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HarleyGirl

Unexpectedly brilliant!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 July 2012

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This book was quite a surprise to me, I have to say. For a start, I am not a big fan of short stories, I like to really get stuck into a tale and short stories are a bit like having one bite of something really delicious and that's it, meal over. So I approached this book expecting it to be a sort of "cut and come again" type thing...read one story and set it aside until the next time I had ten minutes to spare.

Boy was I surprised! Through an amazing act of collaboration, these many and varied writers have combined their skills and created a cohesive whole out of all the parts. These "short stories" are not self contained writings but rather form chapters of a longer story, a story that had me clicking the page turn button well into the small hours. How all these people, living all over the world, have managed to write something that holds together as a gripping story that will have you wanting more and more, and yet maintained their own style as story tellers is beyond me. It's just absolutely brilliant.

Each writer picks up threads from the ones before and weaves them into his own story, each creating unique characters and horrors, but then allowing the next person to pick up the unfolding awfulness of what happens after the Large Hadron Collider is destroyed. It's seamless and yet you can hear each individual writer's voice as they tell their part.

If you like science fiction or horror, or both, then you will love this book. It's complex, clever and I want more, please!

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Francis Hagan

Dark, Horrific, and Compellingly Beautiful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 August 2012

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I came to this from a recommendation of a friend of mine and I was a little cautious about buying it as I don't often find myself reading anthologies. I only finished it today and am glad I did purchase it. The basic premise in which a world shattering event plunges our civilisation into chaos reminded me very much of the Word War Zombie novel which in a loose sense is perhaps an anthology, albeit by a single author. As with all anthologies, the very number and scope of the stories can vary in quality and depth but here as I delved deeper and deeper into the novel I was drawn in to the horror and the sheer detail of what was happening.

There are over-arching stories which serve to unify the novel and these work around and through the stand alone stories very well. I would say that two things stood out in the anthology as whole: the 'event' itself and its consequences which gripped me from the outset and the little individual stories of people toiling against an unimaginable reality. 'World's Collider' brings an impressive array of authors together and the result is a series of stories which constantly surprise you in the range from Gothic horror to urban survivalist episodes to even fashion labels. It would be unfair of me to single out or rank the better stories as I think all work well together to immerse a reader into a single horrifying reality.

This novel builds up like a mosaic or a palimpsest and its sheer size and breadth really impressed me. If you are at all interested in horror or apocalyptic literature, then do yourself a favour and buy this. If nothing else it will introduce you to several authors to watch out for in the future!

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Mike N

A good concept, well worth a read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2012

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This book is neither a novel nor a collection of short stories, and this is both its strength and its weakness.

It is a collection of chapters, contributing to a common story line, written by different authors. Some stories give more to the whole than others. All are well written and engaging, but I think what it needed (at least to get 5 stars from me) was somebody with a big whip making sure the different chapters didn't stray too far from the path.

Of course I have no idea whether the path was mapped out in advance, or whether it simply evolved with each chapter. If the latter then it would explain why certain concepts and ideas make a brief appearance, never to be heard from or mentioned again.

The concept is a decent one: The LHC undergoes some sort of "meltdown" (for want of a better word) and opens up a rift between worlds. From what I can make out there are at least 2 of "our world" (i.e. earth) as one character flees to a parallel world (then another is mentioned later, so perhaps 3), plus at least one dimension that contains a lot of nasties. I was never quite sure whether this was supposed to be a gateway to infinite worlds or not, but it's not so important. There are a couple of characters that tie the whole thing together, and the concept certainly works.

So, overall? I really enjoyed it. To get the extra star a little more cohesion would be needed for me (i.e. either the "whip-controller" or a "plot-in-advance" approach - whichever was lacking this time) to avoid the dead ends and minor continuity errors between the chapters.

Margaret Ravel

a must read for sf fans

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 September 2012

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I am reading this at the moment - great stories by different authors but all linked. What a great idea. Can't put it down and will be sorry when finished. I recommend to all SF readers especially lovers of short stories. Hope another shared world anthology will be published soon

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Smurry

Excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 May 2017

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An eclectic mix of detailed viewpoints of a single event, which gels into a single, well crafted, if a little disturbing seamless story. Fantastic Scifi.

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