Price €11.95 Shipping in Europe €1.50 Aeon Press, ISBN 0-9534784-1-6, 176 pages. A new collection by two Irish authors "brimming with attitude". Whether it's a Dublin hospital during Ragnarok or the Tree of Life in a back bedroom, their stories take place in that shimmering territory where Dublin (and even Limerick) touch the Infinite. "The stories are variously offbeat, strange, disturbing and touching by turn, where the fantastic and the mundane slide across each other as in the works of the great Flann O'Brien (Myles na Gopaleen) and James Joyce, but also tinged with elements of Borges and Gaiman. " - Vector The Alien On-Line: "The combination of Quinlan’s hallucinatory weirdness and Ryan’s poignant empathy works very well indeed" Tangent On-line on Nigel Quinlan's "Another Thing Coming": a dryly humorous story that reminded me of E.R. crossed with Xena. While a climactic battle between good and evil rages outside, Molly D'Arcy and the rest of the staff of an urban hospital must deal with the bizarre casualties: giants, trolls, warriors, and innocent bystanders. At last, thanks to Molly's deadpan pragmatism and their own fatigue, Fiachra Na gCapaill and Cormac Mac Neill, the "mortal enemies and blood brothers" who are fighting, resolve to end their feud and incidentally offer Molly a job. Quinlan wisely tells the story from Molly's point of view, and her pragmatic acceptance of bizarre events and single-minded focus on getting through the day keeps the story focused.

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