Ashley, Allen
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK author who began publishing fiction of genre interest with the horror tale, "Dead to the World" as by Allen A Lucas in Fantasy Tales for Winter 1982, and who published frequently in the 1990s; much of this material is assembled in Somnambulists (coll 2004). A short novel, The Planet Suite (1996 chap), is characteristically built around loose permutations – less rigorous than Oulipo, but certainly sufficiently evident to register the novel in terms of the agon, in this case a generation of outcomes based on "The Planets" by Gustav Holst. A similar concern governs his anthology, The Elastic Book of Numbers (anth 2005), each of whose stories is shaped by a central number of its author's choice. He was long associated with The Third Alternative for his column "The Dodo Has Landed", appearing from #18 in 1999 to the final issue in Summer 2005. [JC]
Allen Ashley
born
works
- The Planet Suite (Ely, Cambridgeshire: TTA Press, 1996) [chap: pb/Dave Mooring]
- Somnambulists (Norwich, Norfolk: Elastic Press, 2004) [coll: pb/]
- Urban Fantastic (Kings Lynn, Norfolk: Crowswing Books, 2006) [coll: pb/]
- Once and Future Cities (London: Eibonvale Press, 2009) [coll: hb/]
works as editor
- The Elastic Book of Numbers (Norwich, Norfolk: Elastic Press, 2005) [anth: pb/Dean Harkness]
- Subtle Edens: An Anthology of Slipstream Fiction (Norwich, Norfolk: Elastic Press, 2008) [anth: pb/]
- Catastrophia (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2010) [anth: hb/Les Edwards as Edward Miller]
- Where Are We Going? (London: Eibonvale Press, 2012) [anth: hb/]
- Astrologica: Stories of the Zodiac (Birmingham, England: Alchemy Press, 2013) [anth: pb/]
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