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Ken MacLeod video interview

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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Missed this, but one of my very favourite authors – and indeed one of the UK’s consistently most inventive and intelligent writers – Ken MacLeod has a webcam video interview with IO9‘s Annalee Newitz for Bloggingheads.tv, discussing Ken’s books, his influences, science, the creation of synthetic lifeforms and, naturally enough for Ken, politics:

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Best of the Year: Paul Cornell’s faves

Friday, December 18, 2009

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It’s time for the latest in our annual Best of the Year selections and today’s guest, I am delighted to say, is a well-respected author of science fiction novels, screenplays (including some of the better Doctor Who episodes) and comics, as well as a regular at many a convention, it is, of course, the very [...]

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More Ian Rankin pics

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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Photographer Kenny Mathieson took some great shots of Amanda Palmer when she was delighting fans in our Edinburgh store during the Festival and was kind enough to share some with us; Kenny also swung by to take some more photos last week when Ian Rankin paid us a visit and again he’s been generous enough [...]

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Candian SF writer Peter Watts detained and beaten at US border

Saturday, December 12, 2009

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There’s a growing storm out outrage gathering rapidly around the science fiction community online at news from respected Canadian author Doctor Peter Watts. Crossing over from Canada’s southern neighbour last week Peter was apparently detained then assaulted by US border security before being thrown into jail. On Boing Boing fellow Cannuck and SF writer Cory [...]

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Ian Rankin signing in Edinburgh

Friday, December 11, 2009

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We had the pleasure of hosting bestselling author Ian Rankin in the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet last night, signing copies of his debut graphic novel Dark Entries, which sees John Constantine involved in a demonic reality show (what do you mean, all reality shows are secretly demonic?) for a delighted crowd of readers (click the pics [...]

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Iain Banks at Edinburgh’s Central Library

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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Top science fiction author Iain M Banks will be taking part in the Edinburgh City Reads programme run by the good folks at Edinburgh’s libraries. Iain will be in conversation with writer and journalist Alan Taylor in Central Library on George IV Bridge (the bridge that runs parallel to our Edinburgh store, directly opposite the [...]

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Robert Holdstock passes away

Sunday, November 29, 2009

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(Rob with his other half Sarah, image borrowed from the Holdstock site) I’ve just heard the sad and shocking news that the multiple award-winning author Robert Holdstock has passed away at the age of only 61 following a spell in intensive care after collapsing earlier this month due to an E. Coli infection. Robert is, [...]

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Peter F Hamilton talks

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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One of the UK’s best exponents of huge-scale space opera science fiction, Peter F Hamilton, answers questions sent in by readers as the paperback edition of the second of his massive Void trilogy series, The Temporal Void, hits the shelves. In typical Peter style it is an enormous book and yet still skips by at [...]

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Drop Dead Gorgeous in Belfast this Halloween

Thursday, September 24, 2009

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My colleagues at the Belfast FP (52 -54 Ann Street, phone 028 9043 8744) tell me they are planning a highly appropriate event for Halloween with local writer Wayne Simmons. On the 31st of October Wayne will be in the Belfast FP from 2 to 4pm to sign from his recent novel Drop Dead Gorgeous, [...]

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Scotland’s most Wanted: Mark Millar kicks ass at the Edinburgh Book Festival

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

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Over the holiday weekend I was lucky enough to attend the Edinburgh International Book Festival once again, this time to see top Scottish comics scribe Mark Millar on what I think was his first appearance at this venerable literary bash. I bumped into Mark outside the Writer’s Yurt just before the event was about to [...]

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Neil Gaiman at the Pen World Voices Five

Monday, August 24, 2009

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Tim Ogline has posted up some good coverage of Neil Gaiman’s appearance at the Fifth Annual Pen World Voices Festival on the Wild River Review, talking with World Voices director Caro Llewellyn; its an interesting read and a nice sequel of sorts to Tim’s previous chat with Neil we linked to a couple of years [...]

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Tony’s Terrible Tea-time Torture Show: an interview with Tony Lee

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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Tony Lee has been a writer for over twenty years and has worked in pretty much every medium, but in recent years has chosen to concentrate mainly on comics. In this interview, he talks mostly about his work for 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine, as well as his experience of scripting Doctor Who [...]

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