The Best of Chaz Brenchley contains more than thirty stories from the author’s fictional archive. Together, they encompass a range of themes, subjects and settings, including: a drinking establishment frequented by the pilots who navigate the intricacies of n-space; a hazardous—and haunted—stretch of rocks off the British coastline known as the Silences; a post-World War I Europe still awash in grief and an abiding sense of loss; a terminal known as the Tower of Souls, from which earthbound humans can take flight; British colonialism both in 19th century Cairo and on Mars; and much, much more.

The stories center on universal human concerns: guilt, loneliness, unfulfilled longings, and the inevitable threat of encroaching mortality.