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; or order ebooks from these dealers.
- 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
"Ken Scholes is a force of nature, and his best stories read like they were written by a whirlwind."
— Jack Skillingstead, author of The Whole Mess and Other Stories
"Scholes is a bard for all occasions. His new collection is enchanting, like the unholy lovechild of a mermaid and Bob Dylan. Get ready to meet your new friends: a spaceship-guitar, a sassy cactus, a gay space pirate, and more."
— Emily C. Skaftun, author of Living Forever and Other Terrible Ideas
Ken Scholes is intensely, unrelentingly inventive. His newest collection, Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds, and other Handfuls of Hope, includes stories from his treasured Psalms of Isaak series, tales that offer a slightly dark turn on our modern world, and a sprinkle or two of lighter modern fantasy. Always surprising and beautifully written, this collection is a great escape that will leave readers touched with hope.
— Brenda Cooper, author of When Mothers Dream and Cracking the Sky
More Praise for Ken Scholes:
"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
"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
— Jack Skillingstead, author of The Whole Mess and Other Stories
"Scholes is a bard for all occasions. His new collection is enchanting, like the unholy lovechild of a mermaid and Bob Dylan. Get ready to meet your new friends: a spaceship-guitar, a sassy cactus, a gay space pirate, and more."
— Emily C. Skaftun, author of Living Forever and Other Terrible Ideas
Ken Scholes is intensely, unrelentingly inventive. His newest collection, Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds, and other Handfuls of Hope, includes stories from his treasured Psalms of Isaak series, tales that offer a slightly dark turn on our modern world, and a sprinkle or two of lighter modern fantasy. Always surprising and beautifully written, this collection is a great escape that will leave readers touched with hope.
— Brenda Cooper, author of When Mothers Dream and Cracking the Sky
More Praise for Ken Scholes:
"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
"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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