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Simon Sellars
@simonsellars.bsky.social
Writer (Applied Ballardianism, Code Beast)
Editor (Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with JG Ballard)
Publisher (Wanton Sun)

www.simonsellars.com
www.wantonsun.com

I hunt digital ghosts
Join us for the online launch of
ANOTHER WORLD ISN’T POSSIBLE, Brendan C. Byrne’s scathing collection of short stories.

Sat 31 May | 4-5pm NEW YORK TIME | 9-10pm U.K. TIME
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Allow Brendan & our very special guests to tell you all about horror in the present tense!
HORROR IN THE PRESENT TENSE: the online launch of ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE
Join us for the online launch of ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE, Brendan C. Byrne's startling collection of apocalyptic short stories. Saturday 31 May 4-5pm NEW YORK TIME | 9-10pm U.K. TIME Brendan an...
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May 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Happy publication day!

ANOTHER WORLD ISN’T POSSIBLE by @brendancbyrne.bsky.social is now available

The stories of Brendan C. Byrne are spinning vortices of uncertainty: the past can’t exist, the present is a slow burn, the future is a vision from hell

Get it here:
wantonsun.com/another-world
May 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE
19 Stories in 19 Days
@brendancbyrne.bsky.social

"Abandoned algorithms spawned in cloistered, fetid pools.

They could compose minimalist atonal scores, write concrete poetry, détourn throbbing pop-ups.

They could play Go."

Sound: Mel Chilianis
May 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE
19 Stories in 19 Days
Brendan C. Byrne

SOUND ON

"She’d taken what was left of her admirer, gnawed & sucked dry, but found she’d been unable to dig. What was already interned there was too precious to her."

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Audio: Machinic Demiurge
May 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Our horror flick HER THRESHOLD is screening @ Shooshfest 2025: a fest for films with no dialogue!

It’s adapted from Brendan C. Byrne’s story of that name, so if you’re in Sydney 15 May, head to the Paddo RSL & thrill to the premiere of our morbid tale

shooshfest.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
COVER REVEAL
Coming May 2025

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Design by Matthew Revert

In Brendan C. Byrne’s stories, the past doesn’t exist, the present is a slow burn, & the future is a vision from hell. With apocalyptic lucidity, he summons a timeline you never agreed to live in—yet somehow do.
April 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
In Sydney makin’ corporate horror films for Wanton Sun with these two local legends: Andres Vaccari and Sophie Suez
March 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I have no idea which social media platform I fit into these days, but over on Substack I’ve been posting fiction new (from this year) and old (as far back as 1996). Join me there for long form stuff if you like (though its algorithm is as weird as any other)

>> sleepybrain.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ANOTHER WORLD ISN’T POSSIBLE
Stories by @brendancbyrne.bsky.social

May ’25
wantonsun.com/another-world

“Just when it feels like the bloated corpse of genre fiction has wheezed its final breath, here comes Brendan C Byrne, with his brutal, poignant shorts”

—Tim Maughan, author Infinite Detail
March 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Reposted by Simon Sellars
The world’s on fire, but we’re still out there diligently making books. And you gotta love that, right?

Check out our forthcoming titles: 8 in all, more on the way.

Full details: www.wantonsun.com/forthcoming

Sign up to our newsletter for pre-orders, giveaways & more: www.wantonsun.com/newsletter
March 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The world’s on fire, but we’re still out there diligently making books. And you gotta love that, right?

Check out our forthcoming titles: 8 in all, more on the way.

Full details: www.wantonsun.com/forthcoming

Sign up to our newsletter for pre-orders, giveaways & more: www.wantonsun.com/newsletter
March 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Turn up the volume

ANOTHER WORLD ISN’T POSSIBLE
Stories by Brendan C. Byrne

Wanton Sun | May 2025
wantonsun.com/another-world

“Stories for our precipitous daily existence.”
—Jack Womack

“Ruthlessly hip. Transreal surreal. Worth your time.”
—Rudy Rucker
March 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
We launched today Sol Oculto (Hidden Sun), a new fiction series published through Wanton Sun.

Through Sol Oculto, we will publish premiere English translations of works by dynamic Latin American writers.

SF, horror, New Weird: Sol Oculto has got the lot.

More info: wantonsun.com/sol-oculto-b...
Sol Oculto: The Best in Latin American new Weird, Horror & Science Fiction - Wanton Sun: Fear of a Bleak Planet
Welcome to Sol Oculto (Hidden Sun), a new fiction series published through Wanton Sun. Through Sol Oculto, we will publish premiere English translations of works by dynamic Latin American writers. We ...
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March 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Made it.
November 24, 2024 at 3:45 AM