Welcome

"These are charming, wonderful, horrifying, funny and, most of all, well-crafted stories."
- Matt Ward, Skive Magazine

" 'The Last Photon' is a jewel. A meditation on distant gods, distant stars - expertly narrated."
- FictionDaily.org

" 'The Crystal' is a story of loss and betrayal with that ethereal, otherworldly quality other stories strive after but fail to reach."
- Peter Tennant, UNHINGED

This is the home page of Brian Biswas, writer of science fiction and fantasy and an occasional horror piece. This site contains a selection of his published works of fiction, including flash fiction, short stories, and novel excerpts. Also included is a complete bibliography of his published work and a blog of musings near and far.



News

"A Matter of Principle" has been accepted by the on-line journal Bewildering Stories. It is scheduled to be published in 2012.

"Love in a High-Tech Age" has been accepted by the journal Aoife's Kiss. It is scheduled to be published June 2012.

"Julie's Murderer" was published last July in the on-line journal Bewildering Stories.

"This Old Man" was published last June in the journal Skive.

"Skipping Stones" was published last June in the on-line journal Daily Love.

"The Last Photon" was published last February in the on-line journal Cafe Irreal.


Latest From The Blog

Great Works

(February 21, 2012)

You read a book. You have no idea what it is about, but you simply can't put it down. When you finish, you immediately re-read it. When you are done you are still at a loss, but you know that you have just read a great book.

I have felt this way numerous times over the course of my reading life, most notably with:

  • The Obscene Bird of Night, by Jose Donoso
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Marcia Marquez
  • The Castle, by Franz Kafka
  • Outer Dark, by Cormac McCarthy

    What is common about these works? They are beautifully written. They create their own world. The draw you in. Yet this is true of many books I wouldn't put in this category.

    There is one other trait they have in common: in each of the above works the book's meaning seems just out of reach. They tantalize, if you will.

    And they compel you to re-read them, perhaps in a search for that illusory meaning. Words indelibly etched in memory. Setting the mind on fire.

    It is almost as if they exist in another dimension. One has the feeling that when our world is vaporized these works will still exist.