Tag Archive | "literature"

Comédie du Livre

Monday, March 12, 2012

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This year’s Comédie du Livre book festival in Montpellier, France, is celebrating British literature, with a focus on an area where our writers enjoy a much-deserved global reputation: science fiction and fantasy. Among the Brit SF&F writers attending Montpellier this year are Iain M Banks, Christopher Priest, Dan Simmons, Jonathan Stroud and Christopher Delaney and [...]

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Director’s Commentary – Mary Talbot

Friday, January 13, 2012

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I’m always fascinated to learn more about how works of art come into being, be it comics, books, films or any other medium; I find it often informs my reading of a text more, allowing me to appreciate more elements and aspects of it. One of the pleasures of editing the FP blog is that [...]

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Welcome to Trip City

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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Nick Abadzis sends us news of Trip City, a new “Brooklyn-filtered literary and arts salon” which launched today. From the looks of it TC will be taking in all sorts of media – there’s a more than generous helping of comics material, but there’s also plenty of pop and literary culture aspects to it too, [...]

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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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Mind Meld – international science fiction

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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SF Signal has been running a series of fascinating articles looking at international science fiction beyond the Anglophone world which culminates in this post (which has links to the earlier parts included), which I highly recommend to anyone interested in the genre. As with comics I’ve always been aware of more going on than we [...]

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