Month: July 2014

LonCon Appearances

If you’d like to come see me at LonCon, you can find me below. Decontextualising Steampunk Friday 15:00 – 16:30, Capital Suite 2 (ExCeL) Is steampunk historically specific, or could any genre story benefit from a few more cogs and zeppelins? What are the pros and cons of exporting the steampunk aesthetic to stories set […]

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Review on Public Books

There’s a new piece on Unwrapped Sky by Public Books, written by Sarah Balkin. It’s a serious intellectual piece, and that thrills me no end. Balkin writes: The novel is at pains to distinguish a politics of impersonality from a politics in which the ends justify the means. Davidson’s own means are a fantastic city […]

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Finncon 2014

My first Finncon finished last night – such a great convention. Just before the con, the newspaper Keskisumalainen did an interview with me, which was nice. The organisers of the con were wonderfully generous, the guests – Elizabeth Bear, Hannu Rajaniemi (author of the terrific far-future science fiction novel Quantum Thief,), Cheryl Morgan, Scott Lynch […]

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Some New Reviews of Unwrapped Sky

There have been a bunch more reviews of Unwrapped Sky. Typically, I haven’t kept on top of them all here, but here are a few: Jeff Sparrow did one for Readings, which is here. Here’s some of what he says: Yes, Unwrapped Sky deploys the familiar tropes of heroic fantasy: monsters and sorcery and godlike […]

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Finncon 2014

You can catch me at Finncon this weekend, where I’ll have a reading and mini-launch of Unwrapped Sky. You can also come join me for coffee at my Kaffeeklatch. On Saturday, July 12 10:30 Book Launch / Reading 208, 10:30 – 12:0 13:00 Likeable characters in SF L304, 13:00 – 14:0 14:00 Kaffeeklatsch – Rjurik […]

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