Archive | August, 2005

Against Gravity

10. August 2005

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Another Glasgow-based author, fresh from Worldcon, has been in touch – Gary Gibson, who has been suffering some problems with review copies of his latest – and eagerly anticipated by many of us who caught last year’s Angel Stations – book, Against Gravity, getting out before the convention. The esteemed Cheryl at Emerald City has posted [...]

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Holy Archives, Batman!

9. August 2005

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We just had word of a very special, while-stocks-last deal on three of DC’s very tasty Archive Edition volumes. If you’re not familiar with these, they are, like the Marvel Masterworks, gorgeous hardback collections of classic comics material, much of it from the Golden and Silver Ages. Much of the material in these volumes hasn’t [...]

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Urie signs

9. August 2005

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Some nice pictures courtesy of Neil and my colleagues in FPI Manchester (thanks, guys) who hosted the lovely Urie, creator of the intriguing, delightful and often disturbing Little Apple Dolls on Friday. Fans arrived at the Manchester store, with one girl travelling from Sheffield just to meet Urie. By all accounts everyone had a wonderful [...]

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Worldcon success

9. August 2005

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My colleague Kevin and his crew in the Glasgow FPI tell me that the FPI tables in the dealer room at Worldcon did very well with many attendees enjoying browsing and purchasing our many and splendid wares, from Daleks to books and graphic novels – thanks to those who dropped by the tables. Stand-outs for us [...]

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Susurrate

8. August 2005

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Some friends have been busy of late setting up a brand-new review site, Susurrate, which will cover SF, Fantasy and Graphic Novels, with a number of contributors, including some of the regulars from the award-winning Alien Online crew. George and Matthew tell me the first batch of reviews are up already, including Dark Horse’s Book of [...]

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Hugo boss

8. August 2005

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The nail-biting is over for another year as the (all British novelists, thank you very much) Hugo nominees finally find out who has won one of the most prestigious awards in the genre. Last night by the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow the awards were announced at Interaction the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention. [...]

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Worldcon

5. August 2005

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Yes, this weekend sees the start of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (we can hear one lot of artists practising what sounds like a didgeridoo in a venue near the Edinburgh FPI) but through in the West Coast of Bonnie Scotland an equally important cultural event is now underway as Worldcon gathers pace in Glasgow. If [...]

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Barefoot

5. August 2005

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Tomorrow, the 6th of August, will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the first dropping of an atomic bomb. It’s a day when what had been science fiction became terrifyingly real and thousands of people in the Japanese city of Hiroshima vanished from the Earth. The world woke up to a new nightmare which would influence [...]

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Literary fun

4. August 2005

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Author Jeff VanderMeer drops a line to the FPI Blogging Batcave to tell us he’s started a little literary competition on his blog. Those of you who have read City of Saints and Madmen will not be surprised to discover it is a little, well, different… Each year a fun literary competition is run, called the [...]

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Ex Machina

3. August 2005

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New Line has optioned Tony Harris and Brian K. Vaughan’s Ex Machina series for a possible film. While a huge number of books and comic series get optioned regularly this does not always translate into an actual movie being made (couple of years down the line and we’re still waiting for production on Richard Morgan’s [...]

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World Fantasy Awards

1. August 2005

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The nominees for the World Fantasy Awards have been listed on a variety of SF sites over the weekend. In the novels section the authors shortlisted include a couple we’ve been banging on about this year on the FPI blogs and catalogues, Susanna Clarke and China Miéville, which is great to see (we told you [...]

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Wonka

1. August 2005

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The wonderfully over-the-top Tim Burton adaptation of Roald Dahl’s dark children’s classic novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory hit the UK at the weekend (and it is a delight for Burton and Dahl fans alike I reckon), leaping straight to the number one spot at the box office. Naturally we have some lovely little treasures [...]

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