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Paul Cornell has written Doctor Who for the BBC, Batman & Robin for DC, and Wolverine for Marvel. He has won the BSFA Award for his short fiction, the Eagle Award for his comics, and shares a Writer's Guild Award for television. He is one of only two people to be Hugo Award nominated for all three media.
A Better Way to Die is his first ever short story collection, providing a comprehensive overview of his work. Featured here are both his contributions to George RR Martin's Wildcards series and all the Jonathan Hamilton stories, including "One of Our Bastards is Missing", shortlisted for the Hugo Award in 2010, and "A Better Way to Die", winner of a BSFA Award in 2011.
Cover art by Ben Baldwin
1. Introduction by John Scalzi
2. The Deer Stalker
3. Michael Laurits is: DROWNING
4. Global Collider Generation: an Idyll
5. Secret Identity
6. The Occurrence at Slocombe Priory
7. The Sensible Folly
8. More (Wild Cards)
9. The Elephant in the Room (Wild Cards)
10. A New Arrival at the House of Love
11. The Ghosts of Christmas
12. Tom
13. Ramesses on the Frontier
14. Zeta Reticuli
15. Catherine Drewe
16. One of our Bastards is Missing
17. The Copenhagen Interpretation
18. A Better Way to Die
About the author
Paul Cornell has written some of Doctor Who's best-loved episodes for the BBC, as well as the novel Doctor Who: Nemesis of the Daleks with Dan Abnett. He has also written on a number of comic book series for Marvel and DC, including X-men and Batman and Robin. He has been Hugo Award-nominated for his work in TV, comics and prose, and won the BSFA award for his short fiction.
