There’s another review of Alt Hist #1 on SF Crowsnest by Gareth D Jones – here. He seems to like it.
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Another book haul post
Posted on October 30, 2010 by iansales
I’ve been very good recently – not only have I not added greatly to the To Be Read pile, but I have also pruned my collection of a few hundred paperbacks. Well, they were just sitting there, taking up shelf-space. I was never going to read them again; and some of them are readily available [...]
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20 British sf films
Posted on October 26, 2010 by iansales
I had this really good idea for a post, a sort of companion piece to my British sf Masterworks. Films… Science fiction films… British science fiction films. How about a list of the best twenty-five sf films from the UK? Everyone likes lists. Except… I couldn’t find twenty-five good British sf films – either that [...]
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Mann online
Posted on October 23, 2010 by iansales
I’ve liked and enjoyed Phillip Mann’s fiction for a number of years – I even reviewed two of his books for Vector back in the early 1990s. And I posted photos of my collection of his books on my blog here. Phillip Mann has now got himself a website. Check it out.
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Smelling of roses
Posted on October 22, 2010 by iansales
If DG Compton’s other novels are as good as Ascendancies, I shall continue to track them down and read them. Of course, I’m not saying this from a sample of one. Ascendancies is the sixth book by Compton I’ve read (see here and here for two of them) . But it is the most confounding. [...]
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Shameless plug
Posted on October 22, 2010 by iansales
The first issue of Alt Hist, the Magazine of Historical Fiction and Alternate History, is now available. It contains many excellent stories, including one by – ahem – Yours Truly. And just look at the cool cover: The magazine is available in print at Lulu here and as an ebook at Smashwords here. It will [...]
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One genre to rule them all
Posted on October 20, 2010 by iansales
Apparently there was a discussion at the Cheltenham Literary Festival between John Mullan and China Miéville about the Man Booker, literary fiction and science fiction – as reported by Niall Harrison here and Gav here. I’ve said before that consigning science fiction to the dustbin because much of it is written by semi-literate hacks is [...]
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Women sf writers of the last ten years
Posted on October 15, 2010 by iansales
If you have a week or so free, there’s an excellent discussion worth reading on Torque Control here regarding women sf writers and the Clarke Award. It spilled out of its topic somewhat to cover women sf writers in the UK, and the paucity of them. Which resulted in a lot of comments. Following on [...]
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