Though I haven’t seen it, I believe that the first chapter of my novel, The Stars Askew, is printed at the end of Unwrapped Sky. The title comes from a Victor Serge poem. Here’s the stanza which serves as an epigraph at the start of the book. If we roused the peoples and made the […]
Read more +Want to read a few reviews of Unwrapped Sky? Here are a few. Check them out: Bookplank Newtown Book Review Bookworm Blues Grimdark Reader Wall Street Journal
Read more +There have been good reviews of Unwrapped Sky and bad ones. Ones which decried its over-seriousness, ones which feted its richness. Those who felt it moved too slowly, others that it was a gripping meditation on means and ends. Locus magazine put it on its recommended reading list for 2014. But only one person has […]
Read more +I’ve done an interview with the kind folks at Civilian Reader here.
Read more +It has popped up again, that infuriating discussion whereby genre writers have to defend themselves against the literati. It seems to happen everytime a famous so-called ‘literary’ writer tries their hand at genre. The latest is Ishiguro’s turn to fantasy, The Buried Giant. Across the Anglophone world, one senses the collective puzzlement of reviewers, used […]
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