... one of the most exciting and original [anthologies] I’ve read in years...

... The collection offers a host of absorbing, entertaining and thought provoking stories...

... an exceptional anthology. Ten of the nineteen stories are astonishing; eight are simply impressive...

Andy Hedgecock, Interzone #231

...It is possibly a testament to the interesting mixture of authors that the themes explored in the collection themselves are diverse: loss, obsession, desire, solitude and redemption, among others...

...I found myself agreeing wholly with Harding’s desire to discuss and share many of the tales in this book with anyone who was willing to listen...

...I found in its pages new ways to hear, see, and experience music, and a new appreciation for why it is such a powerful art form...

From Meredith Wiggins, The Future Fire Reviews

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...a good collection of tales, ranging from the eminently readable to the excellent. Recommended...

From Ian Sales, Full Review

I love an anthology. I really love an anthology that I can read in a day without getting bored or being overcome by the desire to throw the book across the room. Music for Another World ticks those boxes...

Angela Slatter, Full review

...containing a consistently high standard of writing....

The unifying theme of music has resulted in a delightfully wide range of styles and genres (slipstream, ghost stories, alternate history, fantasy and science fiction to name but a few), settings (ranging from deep space through gritty suburban streets to the Christian heaven) and emotional effects.

I mention emotion because of the soul-deep link between music and emotion. One of the strengths of this anthology is that it explores this link, and so does it without descending into sentimentality: although a number of the stories have a certain whimsy, they generally manage to be charming without becoming cloying...

When it comes to musical, as opposed to literary, genres there's all sorts of styles, including classical, rock, punk and jazz, plus a few less easy to classify and yet to be invented musical genres too.

From Jaine Fenn. Author of the novels Principles of Angels, Consort Of Heaven, Guardians Of Paradise (Gollanzc)

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...To my mind the most successful tales were Richard J Goldstein’s Dybbuk Blues, concerning a charmed cornet and the fates of its players, Susan Lanigan’s The Accompanist, where the spirits of Robert and Clara Schumann inhabit the bodies of a teacher and pupil in a Music College, L L Hannett’s Breathing Life Into The Dead, about err…. breathing life into the dead and Gavin Inglis’s Fugue, where a driver crashes on a lonely road and hears a choir singing. Special mentions too to Jim Steel’s The Shostakovich Ensemble, a discography of a rock group from a Stalinist Britain, and Neil Williamson’s Arrhythmia, a kind of 1984 with added songs...

Jack Deighton, A Son Of The Rock Full review