Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stories from the World of Tomorrow | 2015 | Michael Chandos | Buy |
| 2 | Aliens - The Truth is Coming | 2016 | Michael Chandos | Buy |
| 3 | More Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties | 2023 | Michael Chandos | Buy |
Michael Chandos’s anthology contributions cover a range of genre territory. Stories from the World of Tomorrow and Aliens - The Truth is Coming represent his science fiction work, while More Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties puts his mystery writing in a 1960s setting where private eyes navigate the counterculture. The gap between the first two anthologies (2015-2016) and the third (2023) shows a writer who returns to short fiction intermittently.
Stories from the World of Tomorrow (2015) draws on classic pulp science fiction aesthetics, and Aliens - The Truth is Coming (2016) takes a more modern approach to alien contact scenarios. More Groovy Gumshoes (2023) is the most distinctive of the three, blending detective fiction with a specific historical period. Readers interested in Chandos’s longer fiction can also look at his standalone short story West Texas Barbecue (2019).