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The campaign for real fear

12. March 2010

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Maura McHugh has news of a short story competition that should interest all our readers with a creative bent: “What are the horror myths for the 21st century? Sure, we all love our werewolves and vampires, but where are the new monsters for our age? Where are the characters that reflect the diversity in our [...]

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alex’s audio round-up

11. March 2010

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Another Thursday rolls around and as daffodils warily peek out from below the still chilly soil and wonder if it’s worth coming out yet, here’s our own herald of spring tidings, Alex Fitch, with details of the shows he’s involved with for the next week; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details [...]

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Time lapse of designing an SF&F book cover

11. March 2010

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Lauren, working on designing a cover for major SF&F imprint Orbit, has created a time lapse video of her work on a cover for Gail Carriger’s steampunk novel Blameless. I always think time lapse of a work of artistic creation is fascinating, seeing hours (or sometimes more) of work compressed into a couple of virtual [...]

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Neil Gaiman video

10. March 2010

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Neil Gaiman posted up a link via his Twitter to a video of him talking to CBS’ Serena Altschul: Watch CBS News Videos Online

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The Diagram Prize

24. February 2010

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Nothing to do with comics or SF&F but the Diagram Prize is one of the literary awards in the UK I most look forward to for the simple reason its delightfully daft. Each year the Bookseller’s Horace Bent asks readers and fellow booksellers to send in some of the silliest titles for books published in [...]

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Lit Sutra – Brit writers in India

24. February 2010

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Alastair kindly informs us that several British writers – China Mieville, Andy Diggle, Mark Billingham and Denise Mina -are all travelling to India this week. It’s part of the Lit Sutra programme of the British Council, “whose aim is to introduce the best British crime fiction, sf & fantasy, and graphic novel writers to the [...]

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The Early Days of a Better Future? Science Fiction in Glasgow

23. February 2010

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Glasgow’s Aye Write book festival boasts a cracking night for science fiction fans among its many events this year. Ken MacLeod points us to the The Early Days of a Better Future evening (extra brownie points to those of you who get the double reference in that title) on Sunday March 7th at 8pm, which, [...]

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London Book Fair embraces comics, sort of……

13. February 2010

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The London Book Fair takes place 19th – 21st April. This annual trade event has decided that comics and graphic novels are worth some attention as well and tells us so on the specially created Comic & Graphic Novel Pavillion: “Comic books, graphic novels, manga and animé have finally emerged as a serious part of [...]

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Sarah McIntyre wins book prize

10. February 2010

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A delighted and excited sounding Sarah McIntyre tells us that she’s won the Picture Book Award while attending the first ever Children’s Book Festival at Bishop’s Stortford for Morris the Mankiest Monster, which she collaborated with bestselling kid’s author Giles Andreae on.From Sarah’s blog it seems that kids from a number of local schools got [...]

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SFX Weekender – awards and news of Gaiman writing for Who (at last!)

8. February 2010

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The SFX Weekender was held over the weekend (well, duh!) and among the panels and cosplay and discussions and drinking there were, of course, the annual SFX awards. The Geek Syndicate boys were live-Tweeting them as they happened (thanks, Nuge) and SF Awards Watch has handily compiled them all. Neil Gaiman won the Best Novel [...]

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Beaton and Gorey, together at last!

1. February 2010

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If you haven’t already bookmarked Kate Beaton’s site (why not?) then Tom Gauld draws your attention to Kate’s take on book covers by the great Edward Gorey which he’s enjoying. They’re fab, go brighten your day with them. (What Maisie Knew by Henry James via Edward Gorey and now channeled by Kate Beaton)

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Fancy cooking like Moominmamma?

30. January 2010

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Well, from July 2010, you’ll be able to. SelfMadeHero have secured the rights to the Moomins Cookbook: “The Moomins cookbook contains all the secrets to the tasty dishes prepared by the unflappable Moominmamma for the lovely little characters that live in Moominvalley. The recipes are a wonderful introduction to Finnish cuisine, presented by season, and include [...]

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BSFA shortlist

25. January 2010

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The shortlist of nominees for this year’s BSFA Awards – along with the Arthur C Clarke Awards one of the pre-eminent awards for science fiction literature in the UK – have just been announced. The nominees for best novel are China Mieville  – The City and the City, Stephen Baxter – Ark, Adam Roberts – [...]

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Happy Burns Night

25. January 2010

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Its January 25th and that means this evening Burns Night will be celebrated in Scotland and indeed across the world (its not just our comics writers and artists we’ve exported into the global culture!), as we honour our national bard, Robert Burns. Last year the long-running Scottish comic strip The Broons had the Scottish Parliament’s [...]

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Interzone’s linked covers

25. January 2010

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The first Interzone of the new year (issue #226) boasts short fiction from Jason Sanford, Tyler Keevil, Rachel Swirsky and more and also comes with this eye-catching cover by Warwick Fraser-Coombe. Jumped right out at me as soon as I picked up the new issue, fab sci-fi image with an art style somewhere between early [...]

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