Elastic Press was a British

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specialising in single-author short story collections. It was run by Andrew Hook between November 2002 and November 2008 and was based in

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. In 2005 and 2009 Elastic received

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for Best Small Press. They also won the

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Best Anthology award in 2005, 2006, and 2007. In 2008, their title ''Other Voices'' by Andrew Humphrey won an East Anglian Book award. In 2009, their title ''The Turing Test'' by Chris Beckett won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, beating many Booker-nominated authors to do so. In 2017 NewCon Press published an anthology ''Elasticity - The Best of Elastic Press''
Books - Elasticity edited by Andrew Hook as an A5 paperback and a numbered limited edition hardback signed by the editor.

Books Published by Elastic Press

*''Six Silly Stories'' by Geoffrey Maloney *''Subtle Edens: An Anthology of Slipstream Fiction'' edited by Allen Ashley *''The Turing Test'' by

Chris Beckett Chris Beckett (born 1955) is a British social worker, university lecturer, and science fiction author. He has written several textbooks, dozens of short stories, and six novels. Background Beckett was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford ...

*''The Last Reef'' by Gareth L Powell *''Binding Energy'' by Daniel Marcus *''Another Santana Morning'' by Mike Dolan *''Other Voices'' by Andrew Humphrey *''The Cusp of Something'' by Jai Clare *''That's Entertainment'' by Robert Neilson *''Going Back'' by Tony Richards *''So Far, So Near'' by Mat Coward *''Photocopies of Heaven'' by Maurice Suckling *''Extended Play'' edited by Gary Couzens *''Unbecoming'' by Mike O'Driscoll *''The Ephemera'' by Neil Williamson *''The Last Days of Johnny North'' by David Swann *''The English Soil Society'' by Tim Nickels *''Trailer Park Fairy Tales'' by Matt Dinniman *''The Life To Come'' by Tim Lees *''The Elastic Book of Numbers, an anthology'' edited by Allen Ashley *''Visits To The Flea Circus'' by Nick Jackson *''Angel Road'' by

Steven Savile Steven Savile (born 12 October 1969) is a British fantasy, horror and thriller writer and editor living in Sweden. His published work includes novels and numerous short stories in magazines and anthologies. Career Steven Savile started out ...

*''Somnambulists'' by Allen Ashley *''The Sound of White Ants'' by Brian Howell *''Jung's People'' by Kay Green *''The Alsiso Project, anthology'' edited by Andrew Hook *''Milo and I'' by Antony Mann *''Sleepwalkers'' by

Marion Arnott Marion Arnott is a Scottish mystery, science fiction and fantasy writer. Arnott also works as an English and history secondary school teacher at St Andrew's Academy in Paisley, Renfrewshire. She won the Crime Writers' Association Short Dagger A ...

*''Second Contact'' by Gary Couzens *''Open The Box'' by Andrew Humphrey *''The Virtual Menagerie'' by Andrew Hook

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Review of The Sound of White Ants by Brian Howell
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