Robot Replicants Are Go!

Rather later than expected, Big Finish Productions have announced the details of their forthcoming SF anthology, A Life Worth Living, in their Bernice Summerfield range. The collection includes my short story, "Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants". Hurrah.

This is another shared-universe project, which is to say the short stories, and the anthology as a whole, are part of an ongoing series based around characters created by other authors -- in this case, Professor Bernice Summerfield, 27th-century archaeologist, adventurer and diarist, sometimes described as "Indiana Jones meets Bridget Jones". Benny was created by Paul Cornell for Virgin's New Adventures series way back in 1992, and has since branched out into her own series, published first by Virgin and more recently by Big Finish. She's a character with a lot of fans, including me, and it's been a privilege to write for her.

The collection as a whole focuses on Benny's academic life, but my story also deals with her relationship with her ex-husband and current lover, Jason Kane (created by Dave Stone for the New Adventures in, erm, 1996 I think). It's about love, life, literary criticism and human/alien porn, among other things. (Oh, and it's a comedy).

I'm particularly pleased because it's my first professional paid-for piece to be published by anyone other than Mad Norwegian Press. Mad Norwegian are marvellous, of course, but it's comforting to find out that more than one group of people believe your work is publishable.

A Life Worth Living is out sometime this month, supposedly, and you can buy it (if you want to, of course) from Big Finish via the link above. It doesn't seem to have reached the Amazon listings yet, but I'll update this blog if and when it does.