British scifi/horror/ fantasy?

[wam]

Let's see... comic novels (Jasper Fforde, Robert Rankin), some of Ken McLeod (spelling?) the odd China Mieville (King Rat, Kraken), Ian McLeod (spelling again? one of these uses MacLeod) ... Graham Joyce (including the William Heaney book in the UK). Probably a lot more if I think about it.

 

[Randy M.]

There was a sequel - The Domino Men set many years later with only two characters from the first book. Not heard anything of him since.

It's sitting on my shelf. More recently I was nosing around the Solaris website and saw this,
http://solaris-editors-blog.blogspot.com/2014/11/introducing-cannonbridge-by-jonathan.html


Randy M.

 

[tinkerdan]

Ken MacLeod if you want the Scottish SF author

Ken McLeod.

Ken McLeod if you want the Yorkshire born / Canadian Translator.

 

[tobl]

somehow i seem to have forgot about mike carey.

 

[BAYLOR]

Shrine by James Herbert

 

[BigBadBob141]

For British horror I would recommend the short story collections of the late great R. Chetwyn-Hayes.
He wrote some very good stuff, my favourite story is "The Wailing Waif Of Battersea"!

 

[The Ace]

Susan Cooper's superb YA series, 'The Dark is Rising,' ('Over Sea, Under Stone,'. -Cornwall 'The Dark is Rising,' - Buckinghamshire. 'Greenwich,' - Cornwall, 'The Grey King,' and, 'Silver on the Tree,' - both Wales, but the latter includes a scene in the Lost Land of Welsh mythology). Ignore the dreadful film - Cooper felt suicidal after its release, but the backlash from three generations of infuriated readers brought her back from the brink.

Toby Frost is too modest, while not set in Britain, but on the various worlds of the British Space Empire and its enemies, his, 'Space Captain Smith,' novels are well worth a look (I'm re-reading them while the library's closed over Christmas).

 

[Toby Frost]

Good work sir! Support your local library and, er, me!

I remember "Over Sea, Under Stone" and "The Weirdstone of Bresigamen" as being really good. Perhaps there are more YA fantasies than books for adults set specifically in the UK? I remember a story set in an inner city in either the North of England or in Scotland about a unicorn, which was very surreal. It might have been by Alan Garner as well. (EDIT - it was called Elidor, and was set in Manchester, and was by Alan Garner.)

And there was a book for smaller children called Emma Tupper's Diary, which I loved, about a girl who lived beside a loch, and found (surprise) a monster in it. I've no idea whether it's any good now, though.

 

[farntfar]

Alan Garner's best, and certainly the most disturbing (IMO), was The Owl Service.

 

[The Judge]

Fantasy
-- Advent by James Treadwell, set largely in Cornwall
-- The Silver Bough by Lisa Tuttle, Scotland

SF
-- Sirius by Olaf Stapledon, Wales mostly (possibly outside your "contemporary" time frame, as written in the 1940s)
-- Kethani -- Eric Brown, Yorkshire

 

[Cascade]

Perhaps more 'speculative fiction' rather than Fantasy or Sci Fi, the work of Alisdair Gray particularly A History Maker and Poor Things are decidedly British and highly recommended (by me)

 

[hitmouse]

Lanark Alasdair Grey
Vurt Jeff Noon. Manchester
Aberystwyth Mon Amour and sequels Malcolm Pryce. Aber
The Eyre Affair and sequels Jasper Fforde. Swindon, Pendyne, and various British literary settings

 

[Venusian Broon]

+1 on both Vurt and the journey through a surreal Glasgow in Lanark, Hitmouse

Makes me want to definitely check out the others on your list!