Book Porn – Shepard & Shiner

Posted on September 28, 2009 by iansales

Lucius Shepard and Lewis Shiner are among the finest writers of fantasy (and the occasional science fiction) currently being published. Shepard has won a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award, two World Fantasy Awards, a Sturgeon Award, a Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (France), a Kurd Laßwitz Award (Germany), five International Horror Guild Awards, a Rhysling (poetry), [...]

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Catastrophia ToC announced

Posted on September 28, 2009 by iansales

Editor Allen Ashley has announced the full table of contents of his forthcoming anthology, Catastrophia. The stories, by alphabetical order of author are: ‘Hapless Humanity’ by Brian Aldiss ‘The Phoney War’ by Nina Allan ‘Nanoamerica’ by David John Baker ‘Steven’s Boat’ by Billie Bundschuh ‘Happy Ending’ by Simon Clark ‘Something for Nothing’ by Joe Essid [...]

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Anatomy of a Story: The Amber Room

Posted on September 24, 2009 by iansales

It occurred to me some people might find it interesting to learn how I came up with the ideas for my stories, how I approached those ideas, and what I was trying to achieve with the stories which resulted. First up is ‘The Amber Room’, which was published in Pantechnicon #9 in March 2009. If [...]

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Thicker Than Water

Posted on September 20, 2009 by iansales

My story ‘Thicker Than Water’ was published in Jupiter magazine’s January 2009 issue. Unlike ‘The Amber Room’ (see here), it received a couple of reviews and was described as an “exciting story” (SFRevu) and “a good story with much promise, atmospheric and exciting” (SF Crowsnest). SF Site was less complimentary – “I was not really [...]

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Reading Challenge #9 – Lord Valentine’s Castle, Robert Silverberg

Posted on September 18, 2009 by iansales

I can’t say I’m a huge Silverberg fan. I’ve read many of his books and short stories, and I’ve enjoyed them. But I’ve never made an effort to seek out those of his works I’ve not read – as I have done with some other writers. To be fair, Silverberg is one of the stalwarts [...]

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The Amber Room

Posted on September 14, 2009 by iansales

My story ‘The Amber Room’ was published in March this year by Pantechnicon magazine. But there appear to be problems with the magazine’s web site, so I’m putting a copy of the story here on my blog. Click on the link below to download the story in PDF format. The Amber Room

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Rounding up the Readings & Watchings

Posted on September 7, 2009 by iansales

I seem to have been a bit busy lately, which is why I’ve not posted here recently as often as I have done in the past. Here, anyway, is another catch-up post on what I’ve read and what I’ve watched. Books The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (1985), I bought in Abu Dhabi, so I’ve had [...]

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Top 10 Displacement Activities

Posted on September 6, 2009 by iansales

Ten things you find yourself doing when you should be working on a short story or novel: 1. browsing the Internet2. reading3. watching telly4. playing a computer game5. alphabetising your book-shelves6. re-tagging your MP3 collection7. daydreaming about the short story or novel you’re going to write8. thinking up a top ten list of something9. housework10. [...]

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DVD Review online

Posted on September 2, 2009 by iansales

Only one DVD review by me at videovista.net this month – it’s for A Kind of Loving, a 1982 television adaptation of Stan Barstow’s 1960 novel of the same name. See here.

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