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Red Claw Archive
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Red Claw
Posted on July 12, 2011 | 7 CommentsRevenge and Taxonomy on an Alien Planet -
Moodboard for Hell Ship
Posted on July 1, 2011 | 6 CommentsHELL SHIP: PUBLISHED TODAY IN THE US OF A! Regular readers of this blog will know that occasionally I produce ‘moodboards’ of my various novels. Here’s Debatable Space. Here’s Red... -
Red Claw Stuff
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No CommentsI’ve just been told of an exciting book tournament being held by BSCreview…It’s a knockout competition between rival books and the last book standing will, presumably, win fair maiden. Hey... -
Sensual SF
Posted on January 5, 2010 | No CommentsI think SF should be sensual…if you want to know why, have a peek here. -
Red Claw: The Moodboard
Posted on January 4, 2010 | No CommentsHere are some images which inspired Red Claw. Red Claw is the story of science and nature on an alien planet, featuring a motley crew of obsessional scientists who are... -
Best of 2009?
Posted on December 11, 2009 | No CommentsOver at SF Crowsnest, they’ve compiled their list of the top 100 SFF novels of 2009….I’m glad to see Red Claw is in there, at number 17…. -
On the Predator Pack
Posted on December 8, 2009 | 1 CommentI’ve been blogging on the Orbit site about evil, and it came as something as a shock to me to realise quite how dark is my own soul. In real... -
On Space Art
Posted on November 20, 2009 | No CommentsI just had a very nice email from a ‘space artist’ called Brian Smallwood, who has just read and loved Red Claw. Check out these amazing images on his website,... -
Forbidden Planet
Posted on November 12, 2009 | No CommentsI had a delightful morning in Forbidden Planet earlier this week, signing copies of Red Claw. (They’ve sold quite a few, but there are still plenty left!) This shop really... -
No Waste of Time
Posted on November 5, 2009 | 2 CommentsI’ve been meaning to write a blog about the A Space of Waste? debate I attended at Greenwich Observatory, as part of the Sci-Fi London event. It was a terrific... -
Red Claw Day
Posted on September 30, 2009 | 7 CommentsIt’s one day to the official publication date of Red Claw in the UK…it’s a nice, but strange feeling when a book is almost but not quite out. I wrote... -
On the Wonder of Nature
Posted on September 9, 2009 | No CommentsLast night I watched the first episode in a 3 part series about naturalists. Yeah, I know that sounds as exciting as watching paint dry. But in fact, it was... -
Red Claw: Pub dates
Posted on September 3, 2009 | No CommentsI once had an email from my agent with the header ‘Pub dates’ and I thought I was being invited on a pub crawl…in fact, this is publisher code for... -
On Dave Brendon’s Fantasy and Sci-Fi Weblog
Posted on April 12, 2009 | 1 CommentDave Brendon is a South African blogger who cunningly managed to win the Orbit ‘free copy of Debatable Space’ competition a while back. Dave asked me to give an interview for... -
That Ariel Magic
Posted on March 31, 2009 | 2 CommentsStar blogger Ariel, aka Darren Turpin the marketing wizard at Orbit, has now given this website a revamp…check out The Books section and see what happens when you click those... -
On Red Claw
Posted on March 29, 2009 | 1 CommentRed Claw, my follow up to Debatable Space, is now on its way to a bookshop near you….well actually, not till later this year (October I believe). But there’s an... -
On Rewrite Heaven
Posted on February 1, 2009 | 1 CommentI realise with chagrin and alarm that it’s been positively ages since I wrote my last blog…the period since Christmas has been a non-stop whirl. Apart from pursuing what I... -
On the Beauty of Nature
Posted on October 18, 2008 | No CommentsI’ve been neglecting the Astronomy Picture of the Day (see blogroll to your right) of late, but over the last few days I’ve been catching up. Here’s water on Enceladus! (Perhaps.)... -
On Eating Elephants, and Ketos
Posted on February 29, 2008 | No CommentsA while ago, I quoted Karen Miller’s wonderful Book Swede Quote of the Week about the eating of elephants – her way of describing the process of how to write...