Ether Frolics was short-listed for the 16^th annual
Danuta Gleed Literary Award, recognizing the best début
English-language collection of short fiction by a Canadian author.

January 2015: Ether Frolics was reviewed in the quarterly journal of the Science Fiction Research Association:
"The collection as a whole balances humor and play with the intrusion of the darker elements of the human psyche and of civilization. Marlowe’s subtle use of steampunk elements and the text’s historical and textual allusiveness make reading the tales an engaging game in which this reader, at least, felt as if he were being positioned as one of the Etheric Explorers themselves..."-Chris Pak

I was invited to contribute a story to The Affair magazine in Bangalore, India - the short story "The Grinsfield Penitent" appeared in their July 2014 issue.

"Marlowe offers a neatly controlled yet artfully wild and original sense of the bizarre and otherworldly. A unique collection that deserves readers." - Danuta Gleed Literary Award Jury

~~ Available now as an e-book from Kobo ~~

"Despite being devilishly clever, there’s more to Marlowe’s debut collection than humour and wordplay... Marlowe’s sense of place is dynamic and fresh, for all that his writing is set in the past... what Marlowe has written is a creation well worth the read, revealing a major Canadian talent."
- Chadwick Ginther, The Winnipeg Review

"This collection of nine short stories is a true jaw-dropping jewel of a book..."
- Aly Grauer, Doctor Fantastique's Show of Wonders

"Marlowe's stories are detailed, quirky, with a good sense of humour, but not without some dark, deft touches of horror..."
- Craig Pinhey, Telegraph-Journal

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Something Wicked magazine's first anthology volume, edited by Joe Vaz and Vianne Venter, includes my two short stories "Alpha & Omega" and "Cotton Avicenna B iv". It was launched in South Africa at Cape Town's Open Book festival, September 22, 2012. Available from:

Amazon US: PB / e-book
Barnes & Noble: PB
Buy.com USA: PB
Amazon UK: PB / e-book
Chapters Canada: PB
Book Depository (free shipping worldwide): PB
Weightless Books: PDF/E-pub
...and lots of other retailers.