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It’s a grey, miserable day – have a picture of Sarah McIntyre’s new book….

20. November 2009

Just because it’s a lovely, happy image on a rather miserably grey day with rain sheeting down here – Sarah McIntyre’s next children’s book, written by Gillian Rogerson: When King Cupcake is kidnapped by hungry aliens, it’s up to his feisty daughter, Princess Spaghetti, to save him from becoming their dinner. She blasts off into space [...]

The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart

20. November 2009

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Orbit has this little teaser video for what I can only describe as one of the most unusual fantasy novels I’ve read in recent years, Jesse Bullington’s The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, which they’ve just released this month. I’d never come across anything by Bullington before but there are times when you pick [...]

Boilerplate – a mechanical marvel that never really existed….

19. November 2009

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Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett Abrams Image Boilerplate is a fascinating concept – a mockumentary coffee table book dealing with the heroic exploits of Boilerplate – a Victorian Era mechanical man. He crops up everywhere from his creation in 1893 until his disappearance in 1918; possibly making it to the South Pole way [...]

Moorcock Who?

15. November 2009

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Oh yes, on the Multiverse forum, Michael Moorcock reports the following: “Looks like it’s official. I’ll be doing a new Dr Who novel (not a tie-in) for appearance, I understand, by next Christmas. Still have to have talks etc. with producers and publishers but we should be signing shortly. Should be fun.” I don’t know about you [...]

The New Vampire’s Handbook – now we’re definitely looking at Christmas.

13. November 2009

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The New Vampire’s Handbook by Joe Garden, Anita Serwacki, Janet Ginsburg, Chris Pauls, and Scott Sherman Square Peg A sure sign that Christmas is coming – novelty adult stocking filler books begin to dominate the shelves of your local book megastore. Which explains the existence of The New Vampire’s Handbook. It’s one of those books that come just [...]

Dragonology – is it Christmas already?

4. November 2009

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Drakes Comprehensive Compendium Of Dragonology Templar Publishing I was sent this book to review after reviewing Shaun Tan’s Tales From Outer Suburbia. It was a bit of a surprise, as it’s hardly comics related. But, if Templar are kind enough to send me the book, the least I can do is have a look. And to be honest, [...]

Getting Cultured – Banksie heading for the big screen?

4. November 2009

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There’s been a fair bit of talk on various science fiction and movie sites about the possibility that one of bestselling author Iain M Banks‘ Culture tales could be headed for a movie adaptation. I’ve double checked with Iain and he’s confirmed that a deal has indeed been struck for the short story A Gift [...]

Fleece Station, Banal Pigs and Manky Monster news….

31. October 2009

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And if you understand that title, well done, you’ve been reading the FPI blog for a long time – maybe we need long service badges? First up: The latest Panel Borders podcast concludes a month long series of shows on “collectives and anthologies” with Dickon Harris chatting to the Banal Pig pairing of Steve Tillotson [...]

Carey and Gross on Tom Waters’ podcast

27. October 2009

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Mike Carey and Peter Gross discuss their highly acclaimed new series for DC, The Unwritten, on Tom Waters’ Big Words I Know By Heart podcast. Unwritten is coming out from DC at the moment in monthly form while the first collected edition, Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity, is due to be published in January [...]

More Amanda

27. October 2009

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Kenny Mathieson who was kind enough to share some of his excellent photos he took when the dynamic Amanda Palmer performed for fans and signed copies of Who Killed Amanda Palmer in our Edinburgh branch during the Festival tells me that he has some of his photos from the Fringe and WOMAD currently exhibiting in [...]

Sofanauts discuss Asimovs

26. October 2009

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The Starship Sofa crew are joined by guests including one of my favourite writers, Jeff ‘who put the talking squid in my coffee?’ VanderMeer, for a special discussing the famed science fiction mag Asimov’s, discussing problems and possibilities – notably in the digital realm, something all forms of publication have to consider seriously now – [...]

DFC Books – a little more information….

24. October 2009

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News is leaking out slowly over the DFC Books announced last week. (I’m not going back over our DFC coverage – start here and have a look for yourselves.) Covers to the first three books of the DFC library are above. They’re being released as Euro-album sized hardbacks starting in 2010 with Good Dog, [...]

Paul Cornell interviewed

19. October 2009

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Comics scribe and novelist Paul Cornell is interviewed by fellow comics and SF&F writer Keith R.A. DeCandido on the Chronic Rift podcast; the link to play the show is on the right of the CR site’s post. (thanks to Matt B for the heads-up). In related news Paul can also be found on the Marvel [...]

Cast your vote for the annual SFX Awards

18. October 2009

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Voting is now open in the annual awards from Blighty’s top selling science fiction mag SFX. Actually they opened a number of days ago and I clean forgot to post a link up to it, but as they voting is open until 5th December there’s still plenty of time to consider who you will cast [...]

DFC back … sort of.

17. October 2009

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Announcement over at the Booktrade.info site about the forthcoming range of DFC books to be released by David Fickling books in 2010. For those new to this DFC thing or for those of us with short memories; The DFC was a weekly subscription only comic from David Fickling that was much loved around these parts (Here’s [...]

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It’s a grey, miserable day – have a picture of Sarah McIntyre’s new book….

The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart

Boilerplate – a mechanical marvel that never really existed….

Moorcock Who?

The New Vampire’s Handbook – now we’re definitely looking at Christmas.

Dragonology – is it Christmas already?

Getting Cultured – Banksie heading for the big screen?

Fleece Station, Banal Pigs and Manky Monster news….

Carey and Gross on Tom Waters’ podcast

More Amanda

Sofanauts discuss Asimovs

DFC Books – a little more information….

Paul Cornell interviewed

Cast your vote for the annual SFX Awards

DFC back … sort of.

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