Better Way to Die

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