Nicholas Brakespear

Tales from the Burning Sea Nicholas Brakespear

A short anthology of mystery and horror; a window onto a post-apocalyptic world like no other: A thousand years have passed since the fall of Earth, and mankind sails a sea of Solar fire. In a great city sculpted from the slag of scorched planets, workmen take their lunch high above the streets, hanging from cables and praying they don't drop their tools on the unsuspecting pedestrians below. Meanwhile, a young woman finds herself quite literally swept up by the dark side of city politics, and farmers tending fields of vat-grown flesh face the frequent appearance of dead bodies in their crops. And out at sea, far from civilisation, an expedition discovers an ancient tomb-ship, a monument to the dead, set on its endless voyage centuries earlier..