title: The Surranachronist Manifesto and Other Stories
author: Dr. Andrew Paul Garvin
description: At sixteen, Andrew published prose poetry with the Surrealist 'Brumes Blondes' in Amsterdam. He studied under the celebrated novelists Sir Malcolm Bradbury (who co-founded the first Creative Writing course in Britain) and Ms Rose Tremain. Andrew has published fiction introduced by Sir Malcolm Bradbury and has taught Creative Writing and Literature at the University of East Anglia. Currently, he has finished a novel entitled 'The Revolt of Photographs' and is lecturing in Creative Writing at the Open University. Eleni Seliniadou was constrained to avoid literary studies during the military dictatorship in Greece. She studied for a PhD under the well-known critics Professors Lorna Sage and Vic Sage. She has written two full-length studies of the fiction of Angela Carter and Christina Stead, warmly praised by the celebrated critics Professor Patricia Waugh and Professor Marina Warner. Currently, she is finishing a novel entitled 'Beings forever at a safe distance' and is writing short fiction while completing Postdoctoral Research at Manchester University.
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  Matthew Garvin was a young, heavy-boned man who had not yet filled out to his
  mature frame. His grip on his automatic shotgun was not too sure. But he had
  been picking his way through the New York City streets for two days, skirting
  the litter and other obstructions left by the plague, and the shotgun made him
  feel a great deal more comfortable--for all that he still half-expected a New
  York City policeman to step out from behind vie of the slewed, abandoned cars,
  or from one of the barricaded doorways, and arrest him for violating the
  Sullivan Act.  
    
  His picture of the world's condition was fragmentary. Most of it was gleaned
  from remembered snatches of the increasingly sporadic news over the TV. And he
  had heard those only while lying in delirium, on a cot beside the room where
  his dying father kept death watch over the other members of his family. He had
  not truly come back to alertness until well after his father was dea