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The Drabble Project

Rob Meades & David B. Wake

First published 1988
Series Drabble #1
Publisher Beccon Publications
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 110
Price £5.00
ISBN 1870824121

First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies (thus first and only printing). The price is actually given as "100/-" (= £5.00) to match the continual "100" theme. Contents page errors: "Mike Abbott" listed as "Make Abbott" for P27, "Helen Conner" listed as "Helen Connor" for p39. P26 and P27 listed the wrong way round. Other errors: p86 is credited "Mirian" rather than "Miriam" and p32 states "the life OR a bored demi-god" - but given the rarity of these stories I'll leave these detailed in Notes.

Year Reviewer Publication
1988 Jon Wallace (1954 -) Vector 144

Page Title Author(s) Type
6 Introduction (The Drabble Project) Rob Meades Essay
7 Drabble Rules: The One Hundred Word Variant David B. Wake Essay
11 A Letter from Robert Holdstock Robert Holdstock Essay
12 Happiness and Suffering, the Triumph of La Vie Over Death Brian Aldiss Short Story
13 Yesterday's Problem Christopher Wilson Short Fiction
14 Avenging Lepanto - the Long View David Wingrove Short Fiction
15 Fast Rewind Dave Hardy Short Fiction
16 The Turning Point Isaac Asimov Short Fiction
17 Too Late Josephine Saxton Short Fiction
18 IIXXT- Robert L. Forward Short Fiction
19 After the Flying Mutant Killer Gerbils Destroyed London and Squashed the Prime Minister Marcus L. Rowland Short Fiction
20 A Journey to the Last Wonder of the World Garry Kilworth Short Fiction
21 Going to the Dogs Brian Stableford Short Fiction
22 The Very Small Knife E. C. Tubb Short Fiction
23 To Whoever Finds This Note Hole Dug Behind House Please Shovel Earth Back in Patrick Tilley Short Fiction
24 Next Time Larry Niven Short Fiction
25 Rubbish David B. Wake Short Fiction
26 The Bomb Had Been Dropped Mike Abbott Short Fiction
27 As It Really Was E. C. Tubb Short Fiction
28 Faith Helen Conner Short Fiction
29 An Apple from the Teacher W. P. Dodd Short Fiction
30 The Least of my Children Mike Ibeji Short Fiction
31 Why There Are No Angels on This Planet Jane Stableford Short Fiction
32 A Moderately Dull Day in the Life of a Bored Demi-God Sam Lundwall Short Story
33 The Gateless Gate David Elworthy Short Fiction
34 Said One Man Graham McKinnon Short Fiction
35 When They Asked Him What Happens Barrington J. Bayley Short Fiction
36 The Cohen-Dolby Intelligent Noise Filter R. A. Fox Short Fiction
37 The Pruesome Gun Ray Thompson Short Fiction
38 Off the Case Colin Greenland Short Fiction
39 Away from It All Helen Conner Short Fiction
40 A Tale the English Used to Tell K. C. Mann Short Fiction
41 The Innocent Alice Kohler Short Fiction
42 Tea for One Mike Tebby Short Fiction
43 On and on and on and on and... John Grant Short Fiction
44 The Striker Struck Patrick Curzon Short Fiction
45 Once Upon a Time, Long, Long Ago... Nigel Robson Short Fiction
46 The Disemboguement Colin Greenland Short Fiction
47 Ghost Soldier Mike Abbott Short Fiction
48 The Mantra Ray Girvan Short Fiction
49 A French Family of Cats... Phil Rogers Short Fiction
50 The Young Rosie, Convinced by Bees Jonathan Wylie Short Fiction
51 The Last Resort Amy Jones Short Fiction
52 Eyes Shining Light Allman Short Fiction
53 Incubust Terry Pratchett Short Story
54 Rosé Brut Helen Conner Short Fiction
55 A Short Disservice to the Uncertainty Principle Ian Cresswell Short Fiction
56 Cosmic Solitude Mike Tebby Short Fiction
57 Burn Mike Tebby Short Fiction
58 For Her Graham McKinnon Short Fiction
59 To the Onlie Begetter Ray Girvan Short Fiction
60 Gottle of Geer Mike Roberts Short Fiction
61 The Moment of Creation John Gribbin Short Fiction
62 Read Me Gene Wolfe Short Fiction
63 If You Believe in the Future, It Might Come True Christopher Wilson Short Fiction
64 Close Encounter Leo Stableford Short Fiction
65 The Court Martial Nigel Dorrington Short Fiction
66 10 Metres per Second per Second Jaine Weddell Short Fiction
67 Barrier Geoffrey Pitchford Short Fiction
68 Starsong Alex Stewart Short Fiction
69 The Curse of the Unborn Living Dead Harry Harrison Short Fiction
70 They Hunt ... Storm Constantine Short Story
71 The Herd James Steel Short Fiction
72 The Story of the Stellar Saurians John Brunner Short Fiction
73 "'Tirra Lirra', by the River, Sang Sir Lancelot." Duncan Lunan Short Fiction
74 When in Doubt, Plagiarize Dave Langford Short Fiction
75 More Dumb Monsters James Steel Short Fiction
76 When I Grow Up ... Alison Scott Short Fiction
77 Landscape Modification in the Vicinity of Highgate Cemetery Duncan Lunan Short Fiction
78 The Human Condition Janet Jeppson Asimov Short Fiction
79 A Molecular Chip on the Helical Curve Brian Ameringen Short Fiction
80 It Is Always Too Late E. Miriam Kamp Pedersen Short Fiction
81 Concrete Fire Michael Cobley Short Fiction
82 Mousetrap Stephen Gallagher Short Fiction
83 The New Klir Power Source Ray Girvan Short Fiction
84 Pyro David B. Wake Short Fiction
85 Home at Last, in a Cottage by the Sea Mary Gribbin Short Fiction
86 A Modern Joseph E. Miriam Kamp Pedersen Short Fiction
87 The Return of Digby Sponge James Steel Short Fiction
88 Prometheus III Nigel Bannerman Short Fiction
89 Seed Crystals in a Universal Lattice Brian Ameringen Short Fiction
90 Shrapnel David Pearce Short Fiction
91 Fragile Gold Graham McKinnon Short Fiction
92 A Functional Proof of Immortality Edward Bryant Short Fiction
93 Triplets Paul Di Filippo Short Story
94 Parallel Evolution Bob Shaw Short Fiction
95 One of Sandy's Dreams Gwyneth Jones Short Story
96 Plus ça Change Helen Conner Short Fiction
97 Network Nigel McFarlane Short Fiction
98 Inside T. I. Maude Short Fiction
99 In Man's Image Alan Poppitt Short Fiction
100 The Message Tony Rubin Short Fiction
101 Brother Can You Spare a Word Ken Bulmer Short Fiction
102 (Strike the CR Key to Continue) David B. Wake Short Fiction
103 Skiffygram: Fifty Science-Fictional Concepts in 100 Words Charles Platt Short Fiction
104 Full Independent Entitlement Numbering Fifteen, Possessing Absolutely No Textual Associations Whatsoever, Was Only Just Accomplished Mike Ibeji Short Fiction
105 The Impossible Dream Tony Rubin Short Fiction
106 Human Clone and Android Automation Are They Child or Creation? Work Designed with Monstrous Imagination Nigel Cordon Short Fiction
107 First Contact T. I. Maude Short Fiction
108 Aardvark Extremism is Obviously Undesirable Mike Tebby Short Fiction
109 How Odd Michael Abbott Short Fiction
110 Contribution from Himself Phil Drabble Short Fiction