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I spent a bit of time talking to a bookseller today about how hard it is to sell short stories. He reckoned that he could name all the people who could be counted on to come into his store and buy a short story collection. It is a very short list of names. I imagine therefore that this is closely related to the reason why an author who sells as well as Sean Williams does ends up having his short fiction published by a small press. Light Bodies Falling is published by Altair Australia Books (AAB) and I'm guessing does not have a very large print run. That is a pity because more people should see just how good Sean is at the shorter form. But the virtues of short stories and authors who do better at that form is an old argument and apart from the dedicated few who might pick up this book anyway, I'm not sure it will gain any more traction this time around either. So if you do like short stories, go pick up a copy - it isn't Sean's best short work but still pretty damn good and worth supporting AAB in their efforts to get it out there.