An anthology of authentic and realistic hard science fiction
Due 2012
I decided last month that 2012′s reading challenge would be world fiction, and particularly fiction from countries whose literature I had not read before. I asked for, and received, a number of suggested titles. Some I already had on my wants list; one or two I even have on the TBR pile. Using those suggestions, [...]
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In 2011, I had six stories published, and published one of my own on this blog. That makes it a slightly better year than 2010. The stories were: – ‘Barker’ in BFS Journal: New Horizons, January 2011 – ‘Disambiguation‘ on the Alt Hist website, May 2011 – ‘The Contributors‘ on It Doesn’t Have To Be [...]
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It’s nearly the end of 2011, so imagine a 2012 that might have looked a bit like this… Homes Planes Mars
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This year is almost over, but what will the new year bring? I already have more than a dozen titles from 2012 on my wish list. They are (in alphabetical order by surname of author): Stonemouth, Iain Banks Dark Eden, Chris Beckett alt.human, Keith Brooke Black Opera, Mary Gentle The Thousand Emperors, Gary Gibson – [...]
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Well, okay, it’s a bad pun for a title. But look here. It’s a very complimentary review by the Pornokitsch cabal of ‘A Light in the Darkness’, my story in Alt Hist 3. It’s fascinating seeing what others pull out of your stories – whether you consciously put it in there or not. Having said [...]
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I was going to leave this until January, but everyone else is doing them now. And, let’s face it, there’s only a handful of days left until the end of the year and they’ll be filled with various consumerist festivities. So… Books As of 15 December, I had read 156 books in 2011, which I [...]
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This plopped into my inbox this morning: Vivisepulture edited by Andy Remic & Wayne Simmons Welcome to our anthology, a collection of weird and bizarre tales of twisted imagination by Neal Asher, Tony Ballantyne, Eric Brown, Richard Ford, Ian Graham, Lee Harris, Colin Harvey, Vincent Holland-Keen, James Lovegrove, Gary McMahon, Stan Nicholls, Andy Remic, Jordan [...]
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I have decided on my challenge for 2012. It will be world fiction. Each month, I will read a book written by an author who is a native of a country whose literature I’ve not read before. Unfortunately, these will have to be books published in English. While I might be able to puzzle my [...]
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Every now and again, a news story pops up about cameras in public – or even private – places. The latest is Aldwych Tube Station, which has been opened to the public as a museum. The owners of the museum have banned the use of DSLRs inside. They claim this is due to the cameras’ [...]
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