There’s a new review of Unwrapped Sky over at Andromeda Spaceways. My favourite bit: Davidson’s immersion is in the pungent, everyday workings of his world: he writes from within it, reminiscing almost, like a citizen of Caeli-Amur returned home from earthly cities far removed, now to act as the reader’s guide. Unwrapped Sky is at […]
Read more +If you’re in Melbourne on 18 September, please come along. Rjurik Davidson Book Launch Join Editor of Overland Jeff Sparrow as he chats and launches Unwrapped Sky by author Rjurik Davidson. This book questions the role of fantasy and of politics. Is there a difference? What is the relationship? Thursday 18 September, 6.30pm Readings Carlton […]
Read more +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 […]
Read more +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 […]
Read more +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 […]
Read more +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 […]
Read more +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 […]
Read more +There’s a new review over at Acerbic Writing. The newest addition to the Science-Fantasy subgenre, New Weird, is Rjurik Davidson. His novel, Unwrapped Sky, is one of those rare stories that manages to blur the lines between technology and magic, characterization and plot, and what is truly black or white. There’s beautiful imagination tucked in […]
Read more +There’s a new interview with me up at Rising Shadow. Here’s a snippet. We’re all flawed, even if we don’t always admit it. We also all face ambiguous choices all the time. In one simple example, we buy goods made in third-world countries all the time. The workers who make these good often work in […]
Read more +Over at Tor.com, I wrote a piece called ‘On Fantasy and Violence‘, in which I talk about Game of Thrones a bit too.
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