Tag Archive | "Books"

“Pencil-necked weasel”

Thursday, May 5, 2011

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I almost missed this until author Jeff VanderMeer pointed me in the direction of this City Pages site, but apparently Neil Gaiman was insulted – pretty much verbally abused actually – by some ridiculous Republican politician in Minnesota who clearly has no manners and no decorum or any ability to conduct himself in public in [...]

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Gweek!

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

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Meet Gweek, a new podcast from one of my favourite regular reads online, BoingBoing, covering computer gaming, science fiction books and comics; go listen!

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Picture Book This – Ideas Everywhere

Saturday, April 30, 2011

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Polly Dunbar published her first book at 16. She’s still sickeningly young. Fortunately she’s also sickeningly talented and makes some wonderful picture books for children. Perhaps her most successful and well known is the gorgeous, funny and beautifully told “Penguin“. Ideas Everywhere is an online picture book, dealing with making a story. Perfectly pitched for [...]

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Lauren Beukes wins the Arthur C Clarke Award

Thursday, April 28, 2011

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Lauren Beukes scooped the most prestigious science fiction literary award in the UK last night, winning this year’s Arthur C Clarke award for Zoo City, published by Angry Robot. I’ve not read it yet, but you have to love a book described as “Jeff Noon crossed with Raymond Chandler”, so one to add to the [...]

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Zombie guide to the library

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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I love this – BoingBoing reports that McPherson College Library has created a tutorial in comics form (with zombies!) as a guide to how to use the library. Brilliant! I could have used this back in my college days, I worked part time in the college library and was constantly amazed how some undergrads could [...]

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But I don’t want to go among mad people…

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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There’s still a few days left to enjoy the free exhibition of Alice in Wonderland books at the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge, Edinburgh (the bridge parallel to Southbridge where the Edinburgh FP can be found). I visited recently (conveniently it is open till 8pm most evenings, so you can even visit [...]

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The Moth presents Neil Gaiman

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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The Moth presents a good video with Neil Gaiman, recorded live at 27 Arts in New York in 2007 as part of PEN’s World Voices Festival (link via Wim):

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Gollancz is 50

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the UK’s most famous major science fiction publishers, Victor Gollancz, which has published some truly brilliant work by some fantastic writers as diverse as Richard Morgan, Alastair Reynolds, Pierre Pevel, Ian McDonald, Ben Aaronovitch, John Bruner, Sheri S Tepper, Joe Abercrombie, Michael Moorcock, Robert Holdstock, Joe [...]

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Big sneak peek at Game of Thrones

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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There’s a sneak preview up of the upcoming and eagerly anticipated television adaptation of George R R Martin’s hugely bestselling Game of Thrones fantasy and for a change it’s no 1 minute wonder of a trailer, it’s pretty a pretty darned substantial look at what we can expect (link via SFX and Mia Cookson):

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Morte d’Arthur trailer

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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Le Morte D’Arthur from SelfMadeHero on Vimeo. SelfMadeHero have a trailer video up for their new graphic novel adaptation of some classic literature. Now we’ve seen SMH adapt some classic books before, with much success, from Robert Louis Stevenson to Bulgakov. This time the term classic takes on a rather deeper meaning as the work [...]

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Jannie Ho talks comics and illustration

Thursday, March 31, 2011

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Jerzy Drozd offers us up another video of an event from the regular Ann Arbor Comics Artists Forum at the Ann Arbor District Library; this time round it is almost half an hour featuring artist Jannie Ho discussing life as an illustrator and storyteller: Jannie Ho Comics/Illustration Presentation from Jerzy Drozd on Vimeo.

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Graphic novels as vintage paperback novels

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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I’m not sure if I may have seen some of these before, some do ring a very vague bell, but even if I have it’s well worth posting up a link again because these are simply brilliant – classic comics re-imagined as vintage paperbacks. They’re really well done, I’m sure I have some old 60s [...]

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Bryan in Edinburgh, some more pics

Monday, March 28, 2011

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(this is Bryan talking to a friend of mine from the Edinburgh SF Book Group, Neil, pics from my Flickr) The Edinburgh Forbidden Planet International was host to the excellent Bryan Talbot on Saturday afternoon, back up for a return visit to sign copies of his brilliant Grandville graphic novels and other works (yes, of [...]

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Diana Wynne Jones passes away

Monday, March 28, 2011

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(Diana with adorable kitty, pic borrowed from and (c) her author-approved fan site) I missed hearing about this at the weekend until a friend in my SF book group mentioned it to me – very sad to report that the wonderful fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones has finally succumbed to her long fight against cancer. [...]

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Drinking with Miss Dutchie

Monday, March 21, 2011

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Top cartoonist Mike Lynch is rather pleased – he’s just done his first ever book cover, for Drinking with Miss Dutchie, a memoir by Ed Breslin about overcoming drink dependency with the help of his labrador. On his blog (which is one you should have bookmarked as he often posts some great cartooning items up) [...]

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