BETTER DREAMS, FALLEN SEEDS AND OTHER HANDFULS OF HOPE
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KEN SCHOLES
Return for a Fourth Time to Ken Scholes's Imagination Forest!
An unemployed clown takes a road trip to Roswell and finds an unexpected friend. An aging, alcoholic starship captain/reality HV star at the end of his career comes up wanting in his fearless moral inventory and falls into a better dream. An asteroid belt mining prospector in the Frontier System goes seeking a wife and lands himself in an android caper.
Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds and Other Handfuls of Hope celebrates 25 years of Scholes’s eclectic short fiction, logged from deep in his Imagination Forest and oozing with his humanity. Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds features stories as recent as last year and stretches all the way back to the beginning of his career in 2000, marking a quarter century in print as an author. Settle in to find a better dream of your own and maybe a little hope to slip into your pocket against a rainy day.
Also available by Ken Scholes
- August, 2025 978-1-958880-32-6
- trade paperback, 5.5 x 8.5
- Preorder copies below; ebook and additional print copy orders forthcoming from other venues.
- Artwork by Paul Swenson
Return for a Fourth Time to Ken Scholes's Imagination Forest!
An unemployed clown takes a road trip to Roswell and finds an unexpected friend. An aging, alcoholic starship captain/reality HV star at the end of his career comes up wanting in his fearless moral inventory and falls into a better dream. An asteroid belt mining prospector in the Frontier System goes seeking a wife and lands himself in an android caper.
Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds and Other Handfuls of Hope celebrates 25 years of Scholes’s eclectic short fiction, logged from deep in his Imagination Forest and oozing with his humanity. Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds features stories as recent as last year and stretches all the way back to the beginning of his career in 2000, marking a quarter century in print as an author. Settle in to find a better dream of your own and maybe a little hope to slip into your pocket against a rainy day.
Also available by Ken Scholes
Praise for Ken Scholes
"Scholes revels in the offbeat and surreal, marrying otherworldliness with very real human fears and concerns, and his stories are all the richer for it."
— Publishers Weekly
"Ken Scholes mixes wildly beautiful imagery with the sharply visceral; the profoundly mythic with the profanely human."
— Tina Connolly, author of Ironskin
"Ken Scholes knows how to suck us up into a story, chew us up, and spit us out smiling."
— Ray Vukcevich, author of Boarding Instructions
"Ken’s writing has the brilliance of short story masters like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison, and a voice fresh with the needs of the extraordinary times we are living in."
— Brenda Cooper, author of Reading the Wind
"No earlier than 2004, the beginning of Ken Scholes' professional career, you'd never mistake him for a journeyman. Even literary 'exercises' written for workshops, or 'challenges' written for the hell of it, are far more than idle inventions."
— Locus
"A truly original voice. Ken Scholes has the goods."
—Josh Rountree, author of The Legend of Charlie Fish
"A keen eye for action and a keen ear for the sounds of the human heart."
—Harry Turtledove, author of The Man with the Iron Heart
"Scholes revels in the offbeat and surreal, marrying otherworldliness with very real human fears and concerns, and his stories are all the richer for it."
— Publishers Weekly
"Ken Scholes mixes wildly beautiful imagery with the sharply visceral; the profoundly mythic with the profanely human."
— Tina Connolly, author of Ironskin
"Ken Scholes knows how to suck us up into a story, chew us up, and spit us out smiling."
— Ray Vukcevich, author of Boarding Instructions
"Ken’s writing has the brilliance of short story masters like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison, and a voice fresh with the needs of the extraordinary times we are living in."
— Brenda Cooper, author of Reading the Wind
"No earlier than 2004, the beginning of Ken Scholes' professional career, you'd never mistake him for a journeyman. Even literary 'exercises' written for workshops, or 'challenges' written for the hell of it, are far more than idle inventions."
— Locus
"A truly original voice. Ken Scholes has the goods."
—Josh Rountree, author of The Legend of Charlie Fish
"A keen eye for action and a keen ear for the sounds of the human heart."
—Harry Turtledove, author of The Man with the Iron Heart
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