What Lies Beyond answers two questions: What's beyond the functional, mechanistic, and materialistic conceptions of life and consciousness? And why does that matter today? From an overview of paranormal and mystical experiences - in the context of the prevailing mechanistic, materialist view of mind and life - to exploring why the mystery of consciousness remains ‘hard’ and the reasons for doubting that this mystery will be resolved in mechanistic terms, this book aims to encourage open enquiry. For the reader who feels a bit lost, alienated, or disturbed by today’s aggressive scientism and technology worship, these pages offer alternative, more open approaches that reject neither science nor technology but rather insist upon a more humanistic outlook that’s sensitive to the vast but often hidden range of human experience.

Now in a single collection by editor Katrina Archer, get all of the short climate fiction published by Little Blue Marble in 2017. M. Darusha Wehm shows us our blue marble as viewed from Mars. Anatoly Belilovsky meditates on family and love in a drowned future Ireland. Alex Shvartsman controls the weather. Robert Dawson evokes the nostalgia of a child for gas-powered cars. Holly Schofield's highlights wildlife in distress with an allegory of clowns. Liam Hogan takes the slacker's doctrine to its logical extreme. Matt Colborn's toaster fixes the planet. William Delman gives us quiet persistence in the face of disaster. And Ariel Bolton investigates the plight of refugees from the North Pole. Get inspired to change our climate for the better with stories from these distinctive voices of speculative fiction.

Strange Tales of Fantasy and Future.A city of the lost... a future of deserts and desperate remembrance... a universe of dreams... a Martian resurrection... a man pursued by the Aztec god of death....Disappear into labyrinths of space and time with this new collection of fifteen stories by author Matt Colborn. These genre-crossing tales span the fantastic universe, surveying the ecstasies and devastations of the soul."These stories are superb - every one humane, clever and beautifully written.... if you like original, offbeat, strange but deeply humane work - these are for you....To get a flavour of his work think of Robert Holdstock or Algernon Blackwood."From the Foreword by Elizabeth Counihan.Fifteen Stories plus a foreword and notes.

3186, a thousand light-years away: two factions of exiled humans co-operate on a desperate mission to a dangerous new world. Because Nyuki is the home of the humbles, and the previous contact ended in disaster. On the eve of the mission, a new, deadly threat emerges, threatening human and humble alike. The Zungui have returned from the depths of space and are poised for total colonisation. "Our protagonists face a battle against time and the elements.... Emerald to Ice contains that traditional sense of wonder whilst engaging with some very modern concerns." -From the foreword by Liz Williams. "Matt's ability to conjure a fantastic landscape and people it with interesting but strange people is unparalleled." -Paul Brazier.

21 thrilling stories of fantasy and future. An expanded and illustrated edition of the classic collection. ...A city of the lost...a future of deserts and desperate remembrance...a universe of dreams...a Martian resurrection...a man pursued by the Aztec god of death.... Disappear into labyrinths of space and time with this updated, expanded and illustrated collection of twenty-one stories. These genre-crossing tales span the fantastic universe, surveying the ecstasies and devastations of the soul. Praise for Matt Colborn: "These stories are superb-every one humane, clever and beautifully written. " From the foreword by Elizabeth Counihan. "Matt's ability to conjure a fantastic landscape and people it with interesting but strange people is unparalleled." -Paul Brazier.