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Available as mobi, epub, or pdf. 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. 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. With an introduction by John Scalzi, the eBook edition provides a comprehensive collection of the author's short fiction, featuring two bonus stories not available in the hardcopy editions, and two that do not appear in the paperback. 1. Introduction by John Scalzi 2. Sunflower Pump * Bonus story 3. The Greys * Bonus story 4. The Deer Stalker 5. Horror Story * Bonus story 6. Michael Laurits is: DROWNING 7. Global Collider Generation: an Idyll 8. Secret Identity 9. The Occurrence at Slocombe Priory 10. A Map of Lychford * Bonus story 11. The Sensible Folly 12. More (Wild Cards) 13. The Elephant in the Room (Wild Cards) 14. A New Arrival at the House of Love 15. The Ghosts of Christmas 16. Tom 17. Ramesses on the Frontier 18. Zeta Reticuli 19. Catherine Drewe 20. One of our Bastards is Missing 21. The Copenhagen Interpretation 22. A Better Way to Die