Tag Archive | "Ken MacLeod"

Hope Beyond Hype – Ken MacLeod & Edward Ross’s stem cell comic

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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I’ve known for a while that one of my favourite science fiction writers, Ken MacLeod, was working alongside the excellent Edward Ross (who created the fascinating Filmish comics on film theory I reviewed previously) on a science education project using comics. Ken drops us a line to let us know that the fruits of their [...]

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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Moore, Trudeau, Bell, Banks and more

Friday, July 30, 2010

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August is all but upon us and in the city of Edinburgh that means the world’s largest arts festival is about to take off. The population of the city almost double between tourists, festival goers and performers on every corner and during two weeks of that month long circus of every conceivable kind of artform [...]

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

Tuesday, February 23, 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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Ken MacLeod interviewed

Friday, July 17, 2009

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On the SF Crowsnest Ewan Angus talks to one of my very favourite writers of contemporary science fiction, Ken MacLeod, about his latest novel, the fascinating Night Sessions, which combines an SF take on the post 9-11 world and War on Terror with the classic Edinburgh detective novel and a look at religious fundamentalism (no, [...]

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Mutant Scum! Writer’s Bloc in Edinburgh this week

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Top SF writer Ken MacLeod drops us a line to let us know Edinburgh’s Writer’s Bloc spoken word performance group, which includes a number of very fine SF writers among its numbers, will be meeting this week; from the description: “Writers’ Bloc is proud to present a night of literary mayhem featuring original fiction that [...]

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