As a previous winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award for Year’s Best Novel, I’ve been very happy to contribute a new story to this upcoming collection, which celebrates Sir Arthur and his centenary in an anthology of new fiction all written in precisely 2001 words, edited by Tom Hunter & Ian Whates. The brief was both difficult and intriguing in equal measure, but the general consensus among contributing writers seems to have been that the restriction, and the obvious need to keep things taunt and on-subject, actually helped. It certainly did with me. My offering is called Ouroboros, and probably owes more to the famous Clarke story The Nine Billion Names of God than it does to E R Eddison’s elaborate heroic fantasy, much though I love both works. I’m also pleased to see that it’s already met its Kickstarter target, but you can keep track of progress (and contribute) here…