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Archive for August, 2011
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The Age of America
Posted on August 22, 2011 | No CommentsLast week I suggested we were living in the Age of X – at a time when the X-Men are the dominant heroes of our culture, and X-Men movies are... -
G is for Golem
Posted on August 22, 2011 | No CommentsI recently asked, What is it with vampires? In other words, why don’t horror and fantasy writers make more use of all the other weird mythological monsters that exist in... -
The Age of X
Posted on August 15, 2011 | No CommentsMike Carey recently and very kindly sent me a copy of his X-Men series, The Age of X; I did a swapsies and sent him a copy of Hell Ship.... -
Hell Ship Speaks
Posted on August 15, 2011 | No CommentsA huge envelope arrived through my door this week, and inside were Sharrock, Jak and Sai-ias – the three protagonists of my novel Hell Ship. This was the audio... -
A Glimpse of Dystopia
Posted on August 15, 2011 | No CommentsThe riots are over for now. Some people have lost their businesses; four people have died; and those of us who were lucky enough not to be directly involved are... -
Fantastic Fiction: SF Rebranded
Posted on August 8, 2011 | 8 CommentsA little while back I read a fascinating series of articles on SF Signal (Part One here, Part Two here) about the Death of Science Fiction – which, like the... -
Conan: Coming Soon
Posted on August 8, 2011 | No CommentsI truly can’t wait for the spectacle and silliness of the new Conan the Barbarian Movie…I love Robert E. Howard’s stories and understated stories, and always loved the Arnie version.... -
SFF Song of the Week: Eric Brown
Posted on August 8, 2011 | No CommentsI met Eric Brown at my first Eastercon; he’s a charming guy, and is universally admired as one of the finest and most imaginative writers in SF, equally adept in... -
A-Z of the Palmerverses
Posted on August 7, 2011 | No CommentsI’ve just been proof-reading ARTEMIS, which is my fifth novel for Orbit Books, and is published later this year. And I had a bit of a ‘wow’ moment. Wow! Four... -
SFF Song of the Week: My Top 10
Posted on August 7, 2011 | No CommentsFor some time now I’ve been running a feature on my website called SFF Song of the Week. Like a bar which sells books and also serves chocolate, this has... -
Book Signing Weekend
Posted on August 1, 2011 | No CommentsYesterday I spent the afternoon signing books at Forbidden Planet…as jobs go, this was a bit like being forced to eat chocolate in a chocolate factory. This is the Shaftesbury Avenue...