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Interviews: Lisa Hanawalt and Lauren Beukes on the Bat Segundo Show

13. June 2013

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One of my favourite literary and arts podcasts, the Bat Segundo Show, is back on the air, and among the latest crop of audio enjoyment there are a couple of particular interest to us, one with Lisa Hanawalt discussing her debut work from Drawn & Quarterly, My Dirty Dumb Eyes, and another with Arthur C [...]

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Upcoming: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Modeller hits 30

13. June 2013

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Since its launch a few years ago Sci-Fi and Fantasy Modeller has been pretty popular with our regulars. From professionally produced model kits to scratch-build creations, entirely hand made from the ground up, it’s been indispensable for the geek modellers, covering subjects from classic horror to Star Wars. But as well as being a popular [...]

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Film: new Hobbit trailer

12. June 2013

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There are some new pictures and a short teaser trailer up for the next part of Peter Jackson’s take on Tolkien’s The Hobbit – The Desolation of Smaug, and they include a glimpse of a rather familiar looking Elf…

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Comics: making comics for the visually impaired

11. June 2013

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This is a fascinating article on Humans Invent, detailing Philipp Meyer, currently studying Interaction Design at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, and his attempts to create a form of comic, Life, that could be enjoyed by readers with visual impairment or total blindness. It’s a fascinating idea – obviously for books blind people can use [...]

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Iain Banks, gone to join the Culture

9. June 2013

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It’s Sunday evening, I’ve just learned that one of the UK’s most innovative and hugely bestselling novelists, Iain Banks, had succumbed to the cancer he only announced he was diagnosed with recently. The news of Iain’s illness at only 59 was a real shock to many of us in the literary world; friends and readers [...]

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New children’s laureate Malorie Blackman

8. June 2013

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Malorie Blackman is the new children’s laureate, a two-year post to promote and celebrate children’s books given to the best writers and illustrators, and a post that’s seen many illustrious names already - Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Rosen, Anthony Browne and Julia Donaldson. (Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian) She’s an [...]

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Books: Do you get the gist of that?

6. June 2013

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Michael Marshal Smith‘s latest book is rather unusual and very amazing. The Gist from Subterranean Press (a very fine small specialist science fiction, fantasy and horror publisher) is pretty unusual – just check out the description: “The conscious extraction of meaning from a procession of words is not, after all, the only way of interacting with [...]

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Comics and SF at the London Literature Festival

22. May 2013

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James reports that The London Literature Festival has a nice selection of items for comics and fantastic genre fans. For Comic Readers, ‘Drawing the Story’ will be taking place on Saturday the 26th of May at 2pm, as part of the London Lit Festival, in the Southbank Centre. Mary Talbot, Glyn Dillon and Stephen Collins will [...]

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Comics & Books: Gweek talks to Duane Swierczynski

8. May 2013

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Over on the always excellent BoingBoing, Mark Frauenfelder talks to novelist and comics scribe Duane Swierczynski on Gweek about both his prose and graphic storytelling (I’ve really been enjoying his take on Judge Dredd for the new US series from IDW), upcoming work and past inspirations:

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Books: The Clarke Award, a report by our wandering man of letters, James Bacon

7. May 2013

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In the middle of last week the most prestigious awards ceremony celebrating one of our hugely rich strands of literary heritage, British science fiction, took place, mixing discussion of real science, speculation by scientists of The Shape of Things To Come and the crossover between fiction and real science, as well as the awards themselves. [...]

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