There’s a reference today on the Futurismic web site to my short story Flotsam, in an article about shipping containers being turned into makeshift housing. It’s a fascinating article, which you can read by following this link.

Flotsam appeared in issue 3 of online magazine Concept Sci-Fi.  In it, I imagined container ships hastily refitted as floating refugee camps. I wasn’t the first to come up with the idea of using containers to provide living space, but it’s gratifying to be mentioned in the same breath as Ken MacLeod, Neal Stephenson, and William Gibson.

Click here to download Concept Sci-Fi #3 as a free pdf.

This week’s story is a sequel to the full-length story Flotsam, which appeared in my short story collection and was recently featured in issue 3 of the Concept Sci-fi ezine.

JETSAM
By Gareth L Powell

Toby Milan thought he’d drowned. When Odette and Safak pulled him from the sea, his lungs were full of water and he was unconscious and bleeding from a knife wound to the thigh. They pulled him into Safak’s old twin engine Grumman sea plane and flew him to Barcelona, where he spent the next three days on a hotel bed in the Gothic Quarter, his leg wrapped in bandages.

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The November issue of Concept Sci-Fi is now available to download as a free pdf file. The issue includes my short story Flotsam, set in Amsterdam and the Mediterranean. Flotsam originally appeared in my short story collection, The Last Reef, and is a sequel of sorts to the book’s title story.

While on the Concept Sci-Fi site, you can also check out the interview I did for them a couple of months ago: http://www.conceptscifi.com/igpowell.htm

The British Science Fiction Association seeks nominations from its members for its annual awards. As my short story collection was published in 2008, three of the stories in it are eligible for the Short Fiction category, as their appearance in the book marked their first time in print:

• Flotsam
• Hot Rain
• Arches

If you’re a member of the BSFA and you enjoyed the book, you might consider nominating one of the stories. If you haven’t read it yet, you can buy it as a printed copy on Amazon or as an ebook via Fictionwise.

(Those of you who enjoyed the book’s title story The Last Reef when it appeared in Interzone, may be interested to learn that Flotsam and Hot Rain are both sequels to that story.)

My short story Flotsam will be published in the November issue of Concept Sci-Fi. It originally appeared in my short story collection The Last Reef (Elastic Press 2008) and is a sequel of sorts to the collection’s title story.