The Slab Press

Announcing the Slab Press’s new anthology Laughs in Space! Official Release date August 12th.

Set to be released at Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon For Our Futures, Laughs in Space is a brand-new anthology of humorous science fiction from The Slab Press, featuring many well-known names from the global genre publishing scene, and a few up-and-coming performers and creators from the UK stand-up circuit. In this book, I have sought out stories that combine my two great loves: clever and surprising science-fiction, and brilliant, off-the-beaten-track comedy. I am a woman of eclectic tastes, and so there is a real variety of different kinds of stories in here, and different kinds of funny too, so you are sure to find something to make you smile, whether your funny science-fiction go-to is Red Dwarf, Black Mirror, Pigs in Space, or even Hyperdrive.

Pre-order info will be available next week, and I will be announcing the launch details for Worldcon as soon as I can. In the meantime, go to the pages of these guys on social media and give them all some well-deserved love.

• Introduction – Donna Scott
• The Schadchen of Venus – Lavie Tidhar
• Intergalactic Cultural Exchange – Akis Linardos
• Copywrongs – Emma Levin
• Bev the Hacker Does Time – Cait Gordon
• Querulous Times – Rick Danforth
• Professor and Frankie’s Last Big Heist – Lindsay Comer
• Rise of the Spiderbots – Alex McNall
• The Trouble With Vacations – Robert Bagnall
• De’Swine’s Second Question – David Gullen
• Sundog 4 – Alice Dryden
• Bootleg Baba’s Beautiful Claws – Marisca Pichette
• So You Want to Kill Hitler: A Student’s Primer – Lindz McLeod
• Shelf Life – Richard Dadd
• The Chicken Plucker (Have You Seen the Price of Eggs Lately) – Iris Taylor
• Dai’s Ex-Machina – Dafydd Rhys Hopcyn-Kitchener
• Random Selection – Paul Eccentric
• The Complicated World of the Spider – L.N. Hunter
• The Umami Invasion – Gary Couzens
• The Lots of Us – Phillip Irving
• The Rampage of Rampant Redwood at the Ginger Girls Gala – Ian Watson
• Statement From the Prime Minister Regarding the Time Travellers – Andrew Wallace
• Failed Experiments in Eugenics – Fiona Moore
• Everything is Relative – Simon Hall
• Killing Time – Ida Keogh
• About the Authors