I had an email from the folks at Meet The Author recently. If you haven’t visited this excellent site, it uses sound and video clips of a wide variety of authors introducing their own work in order to give people who don’t get to see authors at a bookstore event in person a chance to see and hear them. I think it is a terrific idea and enjoyed a good browse through some of the authors on there, although I was disappointed to see so few SF-related entries at first. Well, I’ve been told that there are now a good number of entries from one of our finest scribes, the great Brian Aldiss available. I’ve just finished listening to Brian talking about Helliconia and it was a nice little treat – I’ve met a lot of authors in my work but not Brian, so this was the next best thing; just head to the main site and use the search page to find the author you are interested in watching.
Wed, Apr 26, 2006
Books, General