Tag Archive | "Books"

Blast from the past – the 1979 Hugo awards

Monday, January 11, 2010

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Cheryl Morgan posts this fragment from an old BBC documentary Time out of Mind with footage from the 1979 Hugo Awards, given out at the ‘79 World Science Fiction Convention, which that year was held in Brighton. Ah, the 70s, when 70s fashions were just fashion (albeit often dreadful!) and not retro-fashion for self conscious [...]

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Best of the year – Martin Eden’s picks

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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Today’s Best of the Year guest blogger arrives nattily clad in shimmering, bespoke spandex splendour, creator of some cracking comics with gender and sexuality challenging characters such as the recent Spandex (which received many plaudits, not least from our own Richard, see here), Martin Eden: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed [...]

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E-readers, comics and art books

Monday, January 4, 2010

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Drawn (via John Freeman’s Twitter) has this interesting video from publisher Bonnier on possible forms of E-readers and their implications for comics and art books: Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

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Best of the Year – Richard Cowdry’s picks

Monday, January 4, 2010

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The latest guest post in our annual Best of the Year comes from a well known creator on the UK scene (I think I first became aware of his work with the interesting Bedsit Journal anthologies) and our current cartoonist in virtual residence here on the blog with the weekly Somersault strip (archived here), Richard [...]

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Best of the year: Jason Cobley’s selection

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

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Today’s Best of the Year guest is a very well known face on the Brit indy comics scene and no stranger to the blog, Jason Cobley. Jason warns us that “I never seem to be very good at remembering whether things came out this year, last year, or whether I’m still catching up with 1974, [...]

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Best of the year: Mike Carey’s faves

Sunday, December 27, 2009

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Today’s guest for the Best of the Year has to be one of the most prolific scribes in the business right now, a writer who mixes scripting major mainstream characters like the X-Men, Hellblazer and Fantastic Four with his own highly acclaimed series like Lucifer and Unwritten and somehow has also found time to pen [...]

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Best of the year: Mark Kardwell

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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For today’s Best of the Year spot I’m pleased to introduce fellow blogger-about-town and also gentleman librarian (quite possibly the only librarian who keeps a fully stocked utility belt under his chunky knit cardigan), Mark Kardwell, with his faves from 2009: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve [...]

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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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Best of the Year: Rob Jackson

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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Continuing the annual December tradition of our Best of the Year posts, today we have respected UK indy comics creator Rob Jackson sharing some of his favourites from 2009 with us. FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? Rob: ‘Night [...]

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Best of the Year 2009 – Gerry Alanguilan

Monday, December 14, 2009

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Yes, once again December has not only crept up on us but is now busy hurtling past us (really, where does the time go?) leading inevitably to Christmas and the end of the year and of course that means its time to commence our traditional Best of the Year features, where we ask a variety [...]

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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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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, without [...]

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

Friday, November 20, 2009

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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 [...]

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The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart

Friday, November 20, 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 [...]

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