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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
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."

www.wantonsun.com/another-world

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
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
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