Collected Works is a collection of short stories edited by Nick Wallace. Released in 2006, it ties into the Bernice Summerfield series and tells of members of a species known as the Quire visiting the Collection while Braxiatel is missing.
Stories within[]
- Work in Progress by Nick Wallace
- The Tears of Laughter by David N. Smith
- Tribal Reservations by Philip Purser-Hallard
- Outside the Wall by Sin Deniz
- Key by Jonathan Blum
- The Inconstant Gallery by James Swallow
- Quire as Folk by Philip Purser-Hallard
- Cabinets of Curiosities by Mags L. Halliday - shows the mysterious "Amber Room" being discovered
- Anightintheninthage by Lance Parkin
- Grey's Anatomy by Simon A. Forward
- The Tree that Was by Steven Kitson
- Forging a Bond by Philip Purser-Hallard
- The Two-Level Effect by Eddie Robson
- Let There Be Stars by Mark Michalowski
- Sleeptalking by John Fletcher
- Intermissions by Philip Purser-Hallard
- False Security by Nick Walters
- The Painting on the Stair by Simon Bucher-Jones
- The Cost for a Collection by Ian Mond
- Lock by Kate Orman
- The Injured Party by Philip Purser-Hallard
- Mother's Ruin by Dale Smith
- Future Relations by Nick Wallace and Philip Purser-Hallard
Publisher's summary[]
"It might be your name on the deeds, but you don't belong here any more. This is our home, our collection."
The Braxiatel Collection. It's a museum, art gallery, and academic institute. A home for renowned archaeologists, runaway art thieves, and galactic waifs and strays. It's been a private playground and the battlefield in the fight against tyranny. And now things are changing again.
With the Collection's founder missing, it's up to those left behind to make this place their own.
Amidst the chaos of visitors from the far future, dark secrets, old friends and new enemies, Bernice Summerfield must do whatever's necessary to keep the doors open and her family safe.
Yet through it all, there's one truth she cannot escape.
Braxiatel is gone. And nature abhors a vacuum.
Sources[]
- Goodreads