Announcing THE MAN WHO LOVED THE SEA by Alan Brennert

2nd Nov 2025

PS Publishing recently announced a book with which I (Bill) expect to be inordinately pleased. There are only 100 copies of the signed, limited edition, and we have locked in but a fraction of those for our customers.

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Alan Brennert’s one of the finest writers that not enough people are familiar with. I’ve been reading him for more than thirty years, and never been disappointed by his work, including the novel Time and Chance, and previous collections Her Pilgrim Soul and Ma Qui and Other Phantoms. In his new collection, The Man Who Loved the Sea, you’ll find stories both classic and previously uncollected.

About the Book:

From Old Hawai'i to the Vietnam War to pre-Aztec Mexico, this collection of Alan Brennert’s finest stories is a terrific mix of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, as varied as Brennert’s own career. From the poignant, deeply emotive tale of a woman who fancies herself “Queen of the Magic Kingdom” to the horrific afterlife an American soldier encounters in “Ma Qui”…from the quantum phantoms that haunt a young musical prodigy in “Echoes” to a future in which an innocent man is tormented by society’s last serial killer in “The White City…these thirteen tales touch the heart—and sometimes chill the soul.

Contents:

  • Introduction by Alan Brennert
  • Ma Qui
  • Puowaina
  • Queen of the Magic Kingdom
  • Sea Change
  • Echoes
  • Cradle
  • The Man Who Loved the Sea
  • Fantasies
  • Skin Deep
  • The White City
  • Healer
  • Steel
  • Her Pilgrim Soul
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