‘Cake’

“In a parallel Westminster, my ex-lover Connie Male is grooming herself for power…”

First appearance: Prospect No. 111
London: Nicholas Dale-Harris magazine, June 2005;
edited by David Goodhart;
price: £4·50;
80 pages;
I.S.S.N.: 1359-5024;
cover artist: Richard Bryant.

**‘Cake’** (illustrated [photograph] by Corbis): pp. 56–60.

First anthologised appearance: ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond The Spheres Of Literary And Genre Fiction
Richmond, CA: Omnidawn, 2006 (April) trade-sized paperback (q.v.);
edited by Rusty Morrison & Ken Keegan;
original price: $19·95;
638 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 1-890650-18-8;
introduction by Rikki Ducornet;
cover artist: Michael Parkes.

First collected appearance: London Bone And Other Stories
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016 (June 30th) trade-sized paperback (q.v.);
edited by John Davey;
original price: £9·99;
344 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 978-1-473-21329-6;
cover artist: Paul Catherall;
illustrated by Michael Moorcock.