Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories

Lynda Clark is the author of Beyond Kidding, a darklyhumorous novel published by Fairlight Books in 2019, and Dreaming in Quantumand Other Stories, her debut short story collection published in May 2021.Beyond Kidding is in development for a feature withFilm4, while Dreaming in Quantum contains the highly acclaimed ‘Ghillie'sMum’, which won the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Europe and Canadaand appeared on numerous shortlists including the BBC Short Story award. Lynda has a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing and iscurrently a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh, whereshe is also Programme Director of the Narrative Futures masters at theEdinburgh Futures Institute. In her spare time, Lynda enjoys walking onthe beach with her husband and dog Badger, playing video games, and reading andwriting Interactive Fiction. She has recently written a novel about a woman whocan talk to household appliances, and is working on a gothic ghost comedy and amemoir about voice, vocal disorders and technology.

'In these high-concept horrors, even the strangest perversions of science and biology can feel sadly familiar, hinting at the fantasies we tell ourselves to explain, or run away from, the darkest moments of our lives' -Nick Mulgrew, author of A Hibiscus Coast'Lynda Clark's stories are thought-provoking, very funny, sometimes poignant, and always entertaining, with a whole Buffyverse-worth of plotlines and nice, fat, satisfying endings' -Jo Lloyd, winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2019'This consummate collection turns the normal strange and the strange normal: it is sublime weird writing, by turns compelling, arresting, amusing and unnerving' -Will Forrester, English PEN'Clark's playful narratives take us to the edges of what it is to be human' -Alison Kelly, TLS