Li’l Factory

My thanks to David Polfeldt at Li’l Factory for generously sending me copies of the first four books from his new publishing imprint. Li’l Factory is based in Sweden but publishes in English, and describes its mission thus: Li’l Factory is focused on publishing odd stories that find no other home. The authors may be young and looking for their first breakthrough, or they may be veterans sitting on material that is rejected by trad publishers. Li’l Factory aims to make a string of beautiful books that reach breakeven and gives the author a boost to continue their work. All the books published so far are science fiction, the first three of these—Burns by David Polfeldt, Brain Fruit by Stephen Oram, and Mimeograph by Eira A. Ekre—being short stories presented as standalone works. The fourth book—Into the Great by Elliot Blake—is novel length. At the time of writing I’ve only read the first three so it wouldn’t be fair to attempt a review of the quartet, but I can tell you that Burns…