The final illustration comes from Katie Small. Here the city is fantastic, as is Kata. there’s no movement, but there’s a sense of reflection and maybe even longing here. This is some people’s favourite, I’m guessing, from the comments on the original Tor post. I love it too.
Read more +The second illustration, again with a comic-book feel, and again with lots of movement. This one by Alicia Vogel. I like Kata here: she’s got the right look to her, and the immensity of the minotaur is great too. Of course, there’s no exact scene in the novel which this […]
Read more +My publishers, Tor, not to long ago ran an illustrators Masterclass at Amherst University. The students were given my book, Unwrapped Sky, as one of their assignments. Here’s the discription the students were given: Rjurik Davidson’s Unwrapped Sky, which will be published by Tor Books in the upcoming year, was a chance for the students to work […]
Read more +When B was here, he recommended we watch Banksy’s film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, a fascinating documentary about a man who has set out to make a documentary about Banksy. It traces the rise of Thierry (Terry as he is called) from street-artist side-kick to artist himself. At first, the street-artists who Terry meets […]
Read more +B arrived for a 48 hour visit. We picked him up in Tampere, walked through the city, sat by the river, talked. But the real enjoyment came the following day when we visited the Zoo. A Finnish zoo is an exotic affair for an Australian: wolverines, bears, wolves, the most magnificent owls, a wondrous little […]
Read more +Sometimes Finland offers glimpses of the most spectacular beauty. On this morning, a ghostly fog had descended over the city, and the lake looked like something from a gothic novel. One almost expected a ship to come creaking over the water, its sails tattered and ruined, its crew mysteriously gone. Then we would know […]
Read more +Lately, my world has been shrinking. First, the move to Finland, which has meant arrival in a land where I don’t speak the language. Of course, everyone – well almost everyone – here speaks English, but that’s countervailed by the notorious Finnish introversion. I find myself in a place far from most of my friends. […]
Read more +I’ve spent most of the last month horizontal on a couch, either reading or watching television on my computer. A month ago, I re-injured – re-bulged? – the C-7 disc at the base of my neck. The effect was to have pain in all the muscles surrounding the right shoulder, and running down the right […]
Read more +They don’t write books like Lefebvre’s anymore. As one of the two or three twentieth century experts on the French Revolution, Lefebvre was entitled to give a definite interpretation of the Revolution. But actually, his certainty of analysis and representation comes from a different era of history writing – the era before the rise of […]
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