Interview and Giveaway on Adventures in Sci-fi Publishing
There’s a new interview and a giveway over here.
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There’s a new interview and a giveway over here.
Read more +The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume My rating: 4 of 5 stars A body turns up in St Kilda, murdered in a Hansom cab. Leaving aside the quaint social mores of the time, expressed by characters in the book, and in the style and form of the the book itself, this is […]
Read more +So I saw the latest disaster film, Pompeii, which is a kind of combination of Titanic with Gladiator. I can’t say it’s a great movie, though it is a fun one. To a Pompeii-lover like me, there were a few annoying things. Like, at the beginning I think that there is a shot of one […]
Read more +A great little book, I discovered some early feminism in there. From an entire section on it, there is this little quote: Depend upon it, that if Adam was angry at Eve for having eaten the apple and got them driven out of the pleasant garden, his descendants have amply revenged themselves on Eve’s daughters […]
Read more +I’m travelling, so don’t have too much time to blog, but here are two photos to make up for it. They’re from a bandes desinées shop in Paris. I bought a Sherlock Holmes one, which looks very cool. It’s on the top right-hand corner above. There’s an interesting piece on bandes desinées here.
Read more +A few days ago, Foz Meadows wrote a widely circulated piece on why politics belong in science fiction. The background was this: there has been a flare=up of the culture wars in the SF community, sparked by the odious views of Vox Day, a man of virulent racist and homophobic opinions, who apparently helped coordinate […]
Read more +As I’ve been writing the Australian Steampunk novel, a surprising issue has arisen: how does one deal technically with the boundaries between the real history and fantastical additions? It’s trickier than I thought it would be, partly because it’s a historical novel, so there’s going to be a gap in the reader’s knowledge anyway. I […]
Read more +On the piece I wrote for Tor called Finding Unwrapped Sky I wrote this: “None of the characters is particularly likeable and each does questionable things. In fact, I’m surprised when readers express a desire to ‘like’ a character, as if they’re considering them as friends. I’d much prefer to find them to be interesting […]
Read more +I’ve written about the process of writing (and inspiration behind) Unwrapped Sky. You can read it over on Tor UK’s site.
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