Peter Crowther
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Peter Crowther is a British journalist, short story writer, novelist, editor, publisher and anthologist. He is the founder (with Simon Conway) of PS Publishing
PS Publishing
PS Publishing is a Hornsea based publisher founded in 1999 by Peter Crowther. They specialise in novella length fiction from the fantasy, science fiction and horror genres. It has quickly become established as one of Britain's premier small presses...

. He edits a series of themed anthologies of science fiction short stories published by DAW books
DAW Books
DAW Books is an American science fiction and fantasy publisher, founded by Donald A. Wollheim following his departure from Ace Books in 1971. The company therefore claims to be "the first publishing company ever devoted exclusively to science fiction and fantasy." The first DAW Book published was...

. He is also the editor of Postscripts
Postscripts
Postscripts is a quarterly Britishmagazine of science fiction, fantasy, horror and crime fiction, first published in June 2004.Each issue is published in two editions: a regular newsstand-type edition and a signed, numbered, 150-copy hardcover edition. Beginning with Postscripts #14, it is a...

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Standalone novels

  • Escardy Gap (1996) (with James Lovegrove)
  • Fugue on a G-String (1998)
  • Gandalph Cohen and the Land at the End of the Working Day (1999)
  • The Hand That Feeds (1999)
  • After Happily Ever (2000)

Forever Twilight

  • Darkness, Darkness (Forever Twilight: Book One) (2002)
  • Windows of the Soul (Forever Twilight: Book Two) (2009)

Collections of Crowther's short stories

  • The Longest Single Note and Other Strange Compositions (1999)
  • Lonesome Roads (1999)
  • Cold Comforts (2001) (CDRom)
  • Songs of Leaving (2004)
  • The Spaces Between the Lines (2007)
  • The Land at the End of the Working Day (2008)

Short stories

  • Blue Christmas (1991)
  • Constant Companion (1992)
  • The Visitor (1992)
  • Fallen Angel (1993)
  • Morning Terrors (1994)
  • All We Know of Heaven (1995)
  • Bindlestiff (1995)
  • A Breeze from a Distant Shore (1995)
  • Conundrums to Guess (1995)
  • Home Comforts (1995)
  • The Invasion (1995)
  • Too Short a Death (1995)
  • The Bachelor (1996)
  • The Fairy Trap (1996)
  • Halfway House (1996)
  • Surface Tension (1996)
  • A Worse Place than Hell (1996)
  • The Killing of Davis-Davis (1997)
  • The Last Vampire (1997)
  • Palindromic (1997)
  • Safe Arrival (1997)
  • Three Plays a Quarter (1997)
  • Tomorrow Eyes (1997)
  • The Unbetrayable Reply (1997)
  • Elmer (1998)
  • Front-Page McGuffin and the Greatest Story Never Told (1998)
  • Some Burial Place, Vast and Dry (1998)
  • Cat On an Old School Roof (1999)
  • The Hand that Feeds (1999) (with James Lovegrove)
  • Late Night Pick-up (1999)
  • Old Delicious Burdens (1999)
  • Setting Free the Daughters of Earth (1999)
  • Shatsi (1999)
  • Dream a Little Dream for Me... (2000)
  • Songs of Leaving (2000)
  • Bernard Boyce Bennington And the American Dream (2001)

Anthologies edited by Crowther

  • Narrow Houses (1992)
  • Touch Wood (1993)
  • Blue Motel (1994)
  • Heaven Sent (1995)
  • Tombs (1996)
  • Dante's Disciples (1997)
  • Destination Unknown
    Destination Unknown
    Destination Unknown may refer to:*Destination Unknown , a 1954 novel by Agatha Christie*Destination Unknown , a 2001 Mest album*Destination Unknown , a 2005 Ron Sexsmith album...

    (1997)
  • Tales in Time (1997)
  • Tales in Space (1998)
  • Moon Shots (1999)
  • Foursight (1999)
  • Taps and Sighs (1999)
  • Futures
    Futures
    -Finance:*Futures contract, a tradable financial contract*Futures exchange, a financial market where futures contracts are traded*Futures , an American finance magazine-Music:*Futures , a 2004 release by Jimmy Eat World...

    (2000)
  • Mars Probes
    Mars Probes
    Mars Probes is a science fiction anthology of mostly all-new short stories edited by Peter Crowther, the third in his themed science fiction anthology series for DAW Books. The one story that is the exception to appearing here for the first time is a reprint of a Ray Bradbury story from 1968. The...

    (2002)
  • Infinities (2002)
  • Cities (2003)
  • Constellations
    Constellations (book)
    Constellations is a science fiction anthology of all-new short stories edited by Peter Crowther, the fourth in his themed science fiction anthology series for DAW Books. The stories are all intended to be inspired by the theme of constellations. The book was published in 2005...

    (2005)
  • Forbidden Planets
    Forbidden Planets (Crowther book)
    Forbidden Planets is a science fiction anthology of all-new short stories edited by Peter Crowther, the fifth in his themed science fiction anthology series for DAW Books.. The stories are all intended to be inspired by the 1955 movie, Forbidden Planet...

    (2006)
  • We Think, Therefore We Are
    We Think, Therefore We Are (Crowther book)
    We Think, Therefore We Are is a science fiction anthology of new short stories edited by Peter Crowther, the sixth in his themed science fiction anthology series for DAW Books. The main topic of the fifteen stories in the book is artificial intelligence...

    (2009)

Literary awards

  • British Fantasy Society
    British Fantasy Society
    The British Fantasy Society began in 1971 as the British Weird Fantasy Society, an offshoot of the British Science Fiction Association. The society is dedicated to promoting the best in the fantasy, science fiction and horror genres....

     : Best Collection winner (2000) : Lonesome Roads

Cultural references

  • Peter Crowther is mentioned in Alan Hollinghurst
    Alan Hollinghurst
    Alan Hollinghurst is a British novelist, and winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.-Biography:Hollinghurst was born on 26 May 1954 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the only child of James Hollinghurst, a bank manager, and his wife, Elizabeth...

    's 2005 novel The Line of Beauty
    The Line of Beauty
    The Line of Beauty is a 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst.-Plot introduction:Set in Britain in the early to mid-1980s, the story surrounds the post-Oxford life of the young gay protagonist, Nick Guest....

    , in the very first lines.

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