The Terminal Press

06/27/2024

Dr Nathan fumbled for the key to the safe that kept the liquor protected from the urchins in the print room. It was time to hoist a toast to Stephen E. Andrews, YouTuber known as The Outlaw Bookseller, for his most recent mention of Unauthorised Departures, the latest fiction collection from us, the Hoodlum Publishers. Thanks, Steve... and yes, we noticed the copies of Deep Ends on your bookshelf.

In a feature length epic, Steve reacts to your comments highlighting your recent reads posted below his 'Biblio Ennui' video. Working from the vast book data...

06/01/2024

London Airport... wonder if they were thinking of Blake?

06/01/2024

Dr Nathan poured himself a glass of Scottish engineering and clicked onto Youtube to catch up with the latest vids by the erudite and very knowledgeable Stephen E. Andrews... he was particularly happy to re-watch Stephen's take on the Deep Ends anthologies over the years. Not that into Ballard? Never fear, Mr Andrews covers all the bases of science fiction. And does it very well. The Hoodlum Terminal Press does a hat tip to the Outlaw Bookseller. Thanks! (can we take our masks off now?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0gDPIK6oaY&t=428s

Outlaw Bookseller Stephen E Andrews delivers an informal overview of DEEP ENDS, the superb annual JG Ballard Anthology with material from Paul Di Filippo, M...

05/24/2024

04/22/2024

Past the point of no return...

04/20/2024

I think I'm the last person to finally get a hard copy of Unauthorised Departures, and I'm very happy with the print job... as well as the high level of quality short stories within. Thanks again to all the brilliant contributors!

04/19/2024

Today marks the 15th anniversary of JG Ballard's final trip on the Oblivion Express. Can't deny his ideas have had an effect on the way I view things, and it was interesting to be in a profession JG viewed with deep suspicion while still recognizing its power to confuse reality and fiction. His unique writing style, vibrant imagination, and dark humour were a happy bonus in his invariably inverted world. Thanks, man!

03/23/2024

OK, let's see what happens when the rubber hits the road...

03/19/2024

And here's our table of contents... an amazing assortment of stories!

03/18/2024

Dr Nathan took a sip and reflected upon the unusual events that had taken place to collect and produce a 270-page anthology of incredibly diverse short stories from outstanding writers... in basically four months. Was it the threats? Blackmail? Generosity of the authors? He took another sip.

03/05/2024

Just a friendly reminder... Reports From The Deep End goes on sale today in North America... it's a pretty amazing collection!

01/22/2024

Dr Nathan poured himself another glass of Scots engineering. His plans for an anthology of short fiction in 2024 were rolling along, with stories already submitted by Maxim Jakubowski, James Goddard, Hunter Liguore, Rhys Hughes, David Quantick, Paul A. Green, Ana Teresa Pereira, Tom Frick, and Eugen Bacon. And stories promised from Andrew Frost, Steven E. Andrews, D. Harlan Wilson, David Paddy, Paul H. Williams, and Elana Gomel. Now, if those idiots in the cover design dept. could only get their act together!

12/15/2023

Dr Nathan paused in his annual ritual of burning Xmas cards from creditors... what's this, plans for another book? Indeedy yes, a collection of fiction -- any fiction -- for a tome tentatively entitled "Unauthorized Departures" and which already has two very interesting short stories submitted by the ever-inventive Rhys Hughes. So, whattaya got? All genres, all forms considered. Here's a couple possible book covers, just to get you going...

12/08/2023

Dr Nathan sighed and put the accountant's report to one side. If some suck...., ahh, clients didn't show up soon, he'd be forced to drink blended scotch in 2024. In desperation he turned to Powell River's only adman, Richard Pearson...

11/16/2023

Video on the Reports From The Deep End book signing event at Forbidden Planet bookstore in London...

Steve attends the Fordbidden Planet London signing session for 'Reports From The Deep End', the new J G Ballard memorial anthology published by Titan Books f...

10/17/2023

Dr Nathan suddenly had a rare idea: since McGrath was going to be in London for the first two weeks of November, why not remind you that he would be more than happy to sign any copy of Deep Ends for you. As would many of the longstanding DE contributors, many of whom will be at the "Reports From The Deep End" group book signing on 11 November at Forbidden Planet. Printing and delivery will take 10 or so working days. Thanks!

06/30/2023

Dr Nathan gave a lopsided smile. It was a novelette. The kind of novelette that hits you like a hot kiss at the end of a wet fist. It's one of LR's best hard-nosed, noir efforts and comes in at 94 pages in a pocket-sized edition. Pricing details soon!

06/21/2023

Dr Nathan grimaced a tad... printing prices have climbed substantially in the last year. He sharpened his pencil and checked the spreadsheets. Yes, if he cut the Terminal budget for 16-year-old scotch down to 12 year stuff he could pass the savings on and after the second glass, he'd be happy anyway.

06/08/2023

Dr Nathan reviewed the technical reports again... Sadly, the back covers created by Paul H. Williams just didn't have enough resolution to reproduce properly. Happily, artist James Marsh came to the rescue, not only supplying alternative art, but redoing The Terminal Press logo as well! Sorry, Paul... thanks, James. This will also slightly delay our publication date as the new covers have to be uploaded and processed all over again. Top image is the softcover; bottom image is the hardcover.

06/04/2023

Dr Nathan checked over the final listing of DE23's contents. Not a bad haul after 10 editions... especially with David Pringle's last Chronology chapters... 90 pages! Next longest contributions: Paul H. Williams' "Castle Bravo" and McGrath's James Marsh interview... at a paltry 22 pages each. And there is another contribution, unnamed, which will be a little bonus story for anyone foolish enough to buy this book later in June.

06/04/2023

Dr Nathan thought... what the heck... in 2019 Deep Ends had different back covers for the hard and soft versions... why not try that trick again for the final edition? The Terminal layout minions were only too happy to oblige. Top image for hardcover, bottom image for softcover. Fun times for completists! Both back cover images by Paul H. Williams.

06/02/2023

Dr Nathan raised a dram of Lagavulin 16 and toasted the brilliant James Marsh for his generosity in supplying the final edition of Deep Ends with 'Wet Dream' -- a simply amazing piece of cover art. Thanks, James... and thanks to all the wonderful Ballardians for making this long-term project possible!

05/31/2023

Dr Nathan gave a slight sigh... here it was, the last contribution to Deep Ends 2023, and the last layout he'll announce, save the thrill of showing off this year's amazing book cover. But what an amazing contribution it is! Deep from the dangerous mind of Paul H. Williams is a fantastic photo album he claims he found in a Shepperton thrift shop and over which he spent months researching and annotating. If so, what a find! Thanks, Paul, for sharing this discovery... and thanks for all you've contributed to the Deep Ends franchise.

05/31/2023

Dr Nathan did a quick rolodex flip... The Hardlab...hmmm... isn't that just an artsy photo front for the ever-amusing Bernard Sigaud? Yes, it is... but what could be more Ballardian than a portfolio of femmes non-fatale? OK, some are pretty cool. Sashaying to you in Deep Ends 2023... thanks, Bernard! Sorry... thanks, The Hardlab!

05/29/2023

Dr Nathan couldn't suppress a grin... Mike Bonsall, the man with bytes in his blood, has created not only a Lego version of Ballard's novels, but added in a contest in which you have to guess which book is being illustrated from the blocky little bits of Lego... Fun for the entire non-nuclear family! Thanks, Mike, for this and all your prior computerized contributions!

05/13/2023

Dr Nathan recalled an old Cheech & Chong skit when the layout minions submitted this "who woulda thought?" story from the inventive and not here mind of Dennis E. Bolen... really, it's bad enough being lost on a snow encrusted BC mountain without this unforeseen event happening. Thanks again, Dennis, for this and your other contributions to Deep Ends!

05/09/2023

Dr Nathan chuckled to himself... a short, but snappy story brimming with Ballardian tropes in a mid-century blend of the rich, the dangerous, and the confused, all revealed in Brother Paul's classic hallucinatory style. And yes, this is Mr Green's 10th contribution to the Terminal cause. Thanks, Bro!

05/08/2023

Dr Nathan checked his third world war watch... yup, still ticking. Time to check in on the adventures of a sax-playing street busker in Ukraine, somewhere near Chernobyl... as imagined within the dark humour of Lawrence Russell. Be. Bop. A-loola. Yet another piece of the puzzle that is Deep Ends 2023... thanks, Lawrence!

04/19/2023

Dr Nathan checked his empire of the sundial... wow, 14 years come and gone since JGB wandered back into nothingness. What better day, he thought, to announce the completion of the layout for David Pringle's final instalment of his Brobdingnagian chronology of JGB's life. Weighing in at 89 pages and around 100,000 words, David's last look is a masterpiece of detail and revelation. As we've come to expect. All of us at The Terminal Press -- from the guy with keys to the liquor cabinet to our army of minions -- congratulate you on your amazing body of work! Sorry, only available in DE23!

03/29/2023

Dr Nathan wondered if he had suddenly lost the ability to read. Nope, those were words, but what were they saying? It was like a dictionary had been scrambled in a surrealist/cutup high-powered blender. Uncreative has never been so ironic, thanks to the endless trickery of our Man in France, Bernard Sigaud, and this...whatever this is...thanks!...
(Soon be be seen and not believed in DE23)