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Eibonvale Press, 2009. Second edition, 2015. The author's first short story collection. 40 stories. 546 pages. "The tales in Experiments at 3 Billion A.M. are masterpieces of subtlety and suggestion, electric with emotional power, brimming with inventiveness, enigmatic, inconclusive and delicately drawn, touching, without being sentimental, evocative and often deeply unsettling and shocking. This then is that rare achievement, great writing and great story telling." - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction "It is difficult to pigeonhole the stories genres as Zelenyj is able to draw from a very extensive palette, enabling his prose to create a wide variety of colours and moods; this is some of the best slipstream fiction I have read for a while. [. . .] Unconstrained by genre or convention he lets his imagination roam across an impressive variety of environments - from horror, science fiction and poignant stories of everyday sadness, but always with an innate sense of wonder and a deep humanity running like a gossamer thread throughout. He mixes his genres with the hand of an expert producing some really emotive pieces, sometimes melancholy, sometimes hopeful but always interesting." – Charles Packer, Sci-Fi Online "Zelenyj is an incredibly talented if totally-unknown-to-me writer who works the full spectrum of speculative fiction with ease and the ability to blur out any genre lines you may care to draw. Science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream and relentless re-combination, Zelenyj does it all with a narrative clarity that makes for fast, enjoyable reading. Expect great writing, a lot of it." - The Agony Column "Gripping and enjoyable, a good collection of tales to keep on your bedside table." - British Fantasy Society Contents: ● Foreword, by David Rix ● The Potato Thief Beneath Indifferent Stars ● Blue Love Maria ● Black Flies Inside ● Footsteps to Blacken the Drifts ● The Stealing Sky ● The Mighty Ones Listen to the Night ● Let the Firefly Men Remind You ● Just Right Under Moonlight ● Teenage Pirates and the Ghosting of Texas ● The Loneliness of Strangefire Dancers ● Onwards! To Memphis! ● The Prison Hulk ● Gladiators in the Sepulchre of Abominations ● Night Symphonies ● The Burning Sadness of Crash-Landed Sleepers ● Tara of the Wine Cats ● In the City Where Dreams Wander the Sidewalks ● I Humbly Accept This War Stick ● Lost in the Penguin Tunnel ● The Lilac Perfumes Between the Stars ● Dreams of the Rocket-Boy ● Love, Death, and Monsters at the Drive-In ● Letters From the Laboratory ● The Snow Robins Fly Between Heaven and Hell ● The Silly Significance of Running With Soda Fire ● Waiting For the New Reign of the Fire Ants ● Pining for the Lost Love of the Moon Creatures ● The Empty Hands of Alvin Calvin Rourke ● Salty Magic Balloon Trips for the Moon to Judge ● The Runners Among the Stars ● Captain of a Ship of Flowers ● Pigeons or Ashes, and the Final Gift of Jimmy Colley ● The Animals have Seized the Diamond Sea Kingdom ● The Grey Tammy and the Living ● Christina the Bloomed ● I Am the Stink Candle ● Grandmother Mars and the Relentless Call to Arms ● Where the War Bird Leads ● Another Light Called 1-47 ● Poppy, the Girl of my Dreams, and the Alien Invasion I can Detect Like Radar through my Braces