You should read Milo & I - not because it's fantasy, not because its slipstream, but simply because it is a wonderful, wonderful book. Indeed, it's one of my top two or three of 2003.
Smooth, professional, and always entertaining, a writer with a good ear for dialogue and a devious mind for plot. Highly recommended.
Attractively packaged with a full colour cover the freshest purveyor of weird crime singularly redefines the genre with twelve entertainingly bizarre stories that stand charged with originality. Welcome to a world where an assassination is broadcast on live TV, where a detective's sidekick is thirteen-months old, where chess has been solved, and where gambling for a pound of flesh takes on new meaning. Welcome to Mann's world.
Antony Mann was the 1999 winner of the UK Crime Writers' Association Short Story Dagger Award, and also has been short listed for 2003. His fiction has also twice received Honourable Mentions in Ellen Datlow/Terry Windling's Year's Best Fantasy & Horror series.