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Vagabond Gets New Site!

2011-10-18T05:38:00.001-07:00

Vagabond Unlimited, finally has its own site again! Visit it at: http://www.vagabond-unlimited.co.uk.

V&G Now Out In Print Edition!

2011-09-29T02:45:00.000-07:00

Amazon.co.uk: The Vast and Gruesome Clutch of Our Law. RRP: £4.99.

Vast and Gruesome

2011-09-23T00:59:00.001-07:00

Hi all - I have had a fourth attempt at publishing a book The Vast and Gruesome Clutch of Our Law, which is now available at: www.amazon.com. Please buy this book. It is good.

Synopsis:

The world is in the grip of a large catastrophe. Edward lives in a small community which has barely survived the long cruel winter. But when a stranger called Dean arrives in town hope returns and he seems to have a magical effect on them. But Dean is being tracked by a large foreign military power and the town is in big trouble for giving him shelter.

Reviews:

"The book is intriguing. I found it overwhelming. I found myself unwilling to let the book go until I had finished it. I would definitely pick up the sequel if I were to come across it."

"I was genuinely interested in where this tale was heading and there are some fine ideas in here."

"Its post-apocalypse setting and ambience stimulated an affectionate nostalgia" – Reviews from the book (2005).

“It had me absolutely enthralled from the moment I picked it up.” - C Toohill (2010)

Get the Book!

2011-08-01T03:09:00.000-07:00

The ebook The Vast and Gruesome Clutch of Our Law is available at all the major ebook store. Here's a list:

KINDLE: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vast-Gruesome-Clutch-Our-ebook/dp/B0045Y1OHU/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1312193455&sr=1-1

IPAD/IPHONE: http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/isbn9780954969134

BARNES AND NOBLE: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-vast-and-gruesome-clutch-of-our-law-bcbamber/1027647082?ean=2940011120114&itm=1&usri=the%2bvast%2band%2bgruesome%2bclutch%2bof%2bour%2blaw

DIESEL BOOKS: http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/item/SW00000024230/C.-Bamber-B.-The-Vast-and-Gruesome-Clutch-of-Our-Law/1.html

KOBO: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/The-Vast-And-Gruesome-Clutch/book-p-khOID6UE67Dg8WBegynw/page1.html

SONY READER: http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/b-c-bamber/the-vast-and-gruesome-clutch-of-our-law/_/R-400000000000000297349

Enjoy!

Future Towns Magazine

2011-07-23T02:04:00.000-07:00

I always intended to develop a magazine about disaster technology, sustainability, architecture and engineering and hazard research. This week I began the long process of building up a portfolio of really good, interesting articles for Future Towns Magazine. I am looking for journalists with a passion for green issues, or disaster management, so please take a look and contact me from the contacts page of the online journal: http://www.futuretowns.com. Thanks.

The Green 'M': The Battle for Freedom and Justice in Psychiatry.

2011-06-18T05:52:00.001-07:00

Vagabond Unlimited has a new e-book to view, concerning the rights and freedoms of mentally ill people. It covers the arguments to improve treatment and introduce new rights to the process of detention for treatment. Here are the details:

The Green ‘M’: The Battle for Freedom and Justice in Psychiatry by B.C.Bamber.

The psychiatric profession is running out of credibility. Patients have no right to defend themselves against forced treatment and detention without trial. The UN has declared these practices illegal. This book explores the alternatives, the arguments, the science, and the politics of madness.

Longer description:

Psychiatry is on the run. Their dopamine theory of Schizophrenia isn’t proven, and yet patients are forced to take medication based on this theory. Patients are interned and have less rights than criminals. Patients are routinely forced to take medication that they say no to. When they say no, they are pinned down and injected with dangerous and infective drugs, over and over again until they are broken and unable to fight any longer. The UN has declared these practices illegal. The government isn’t interested and neither is the public or the psychiatric profession itself. This book takes this fight for freedom and justice for mentally ill people a step further and attempts to argue that the law doesn't need to be so strict nor the medicine so hard to take.

Please also visit: http://www.mentalsagainstpsychiatry.blogspot.com/ for more information.

The Bridport Reject Collective: Six Cruel and Unusual Short Stories.

2011-06-15T08:20:00.000-07:00

A new piece which has been put together using all the short stories that I've had published elsewhere, or entered into the Bridport Prize, plus one new story, has been published on http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/66575. It is on sale for $2.00, so no excuses (you know who you are)! It is available on all e-reader formats including Kindle, you can read it online as a HTML or as a word file (there maybe a delay of a couple of days for some readers due to Smashwords premium distribution approval process).

No doubt The Bridport Prize people will be slightly pissed off that I am piggy backing on their notority. And no doubt people might find my title a little bitter, as if I felt I should have won this prize hands down or something. No. I know that the Bridport Prize is a very tough competition - probably the toughest and this has been the only competition I have ever entered as a writer. I have a great deal of respect for this competition and I would consider it to be the only competition really worth entering for short stories etc. So it is in deference to the quality of the prize and its winners, that I named my short story collection after it.

Here's a rundown of what's in the book:

THE RIOTERS CANDLE.

This short story is a completely new one, inspired by the Tunisian man Mohammed Bouazizi, who set himself alight and set the whole world alight at the same time. In this tale a prisoner is brought to a cell block used for torturing and detaining high profile prisoners of a generic Arab regime. He is a simple rioter, rather than a revolutionary, a politician or a human rights campaigner. He’s only there because the other prisons were full, but his effect is much, much bigger than his counterparts in the neighbouring cells could ever have imagined.

DARK DAY.

A mysterious darkness arrives on a housing estate in Northampton and experts are drafted in to discover its origins and secrets. The Police and the army send in their officers to investigate, only to find that they don’t return. The darkness seems to swallow up human beings as effectively as it does the light. Hidden deep inside is a tragedy which will confound the government and leave a lasting legacy. This story was entered into the The Bridport Prize Short Story competition 2009, then published on www.vagabond-unlimited.co.uk and Kalkion.com later that same year (Dark Day - Kalkion.com edition).

SAY GOODBYE TO MACY.

A lonely salesman is haunted by a dream of a troubled young girl in a children’s home, when he realises his dream has become a reality. This short was also entered into The Bridport Prize Short Story competition in 2010.

LENNY’S DREAMS: THE LAST DAYS OF THE BEETLE.

Lenny lives alone after the end of his marriage. Depressed and lost in his own world, he becomes fascinated by the minutia of the insect life around him. This short was first published on www.horromasters.com in 2004.

CAITLIN INVISIBLE.

Caitlin is a ten year old girl who has got into the habit of getting up in the middle of the night to stand silently and still in the partially finished extension on her house and stares out the window for a few minutes and then returns to bed. Soon it becomes apparent why she is doing this, when she witnesses an event that no other person sees, nor understands. This was published as an ebook on www.vagabond-unlimited.co.uk in 2007 and in Escape Velocity edited by Geoff Nelder and Rob Blevins in 2011.

DEVIL’S RISE.

While abseiling off an escarpment called Devil’s Rise, a man finds himself lost in country lanes, having been separated from his family. When he stops at a farmhouse, he discovers a terrible crime. But as he goes to call the Police, he begins to realise that he maybe in the frame himself. This story was entered into the The Bridport Prize Short Story competition in 2007.

Hope you pick it up. And remember you don't need an expensive e-reader. All you need is a computer and a printer, or if you're up for reading on-screen, then you can read it online. I would of course discourage people printing off stuff you can read on screen. I made up my mind years ago that I would only print stuff off, if I really needed to and I found it took about a month to adjust to reading on-screen. Now I prefer it, and as a bonus I only buy paper about two or three times a year. Seriously consider training your brain and I guess your eyes to adjust and it works nicely. My eyes are as good as they ever were as well. No damage there to worry about.

Escape Velocity Anthology.

2011-05-22T09:43:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! I have just had Caitlin Invisable published again, this time in the short sci-fi story anthology edited by Geoff Nelder and Robert Blevins. It is available as an ebook here or as a hard copy here. Either way it is a great read.

Book News

2010-10-12T04:30:00.000-07:00

Yet again I am venturing out with a new EBook release of The Vast and Gruesome Clutch of Our Law (I don't learn do I?) But this time its free (brace yourself for 'he can't even give it away!). You can download it here: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/24230, or on Kindle here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0045Y1OHU. I hope you thoroughly enjoy it! Also the Glos Echo covered it, which was nice.

Website is Being Changed

2010-07-19T09:13:00.001-07:00

If you would like more information about me and my work, please visit: http://www.mediamight.co.uk. Thanks - B.C.Bamber.