Tag Archive | "Orbit"

Soulless – The Manga

Thursday, April 5, 2012

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At San Diego Comic Con in 2010, it was announced that the Gail Carriger novel Soulless would be turned into a manga, with Rem, who previously has worked on Tokyopop’s Vampire Kisses, looking after the artistic duties. The book was published in chapters on the online manga magazine Yen+plus and now it’s being collected by [...]

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Director’s Commentary: the art of writing fantasy

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

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Today we have a nice treat for science fiction and fantasy fans with only our second guest Director’s Commentary post on a prose work, I’m delighted to welcome a highly regarded fantasy writer I’ve known and whose work I’ve enjoyed for years, Juliet E McKenna: I do words, not pictures. I cannot draw anything but [...]

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British Fantasy Award Winners

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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Locus Online has details of the winners of this year’s British Fantasy Awards from the British Fantasy Society, held at the weekend’s FantasyCon, and among those being honoured this year I am delighted to see that one of the books which scored highly with the blog team and many of our guests during our annual [...]

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Time lapse of designing an SF&F book cover

Thursday, March 11, 2010

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Lauren, working on designing a cover for major SF&F imprint Orbit, has created a time lapse video of her work on a cover for Gail Carriger’s steampunk novel Blameless. I always think time lapse of a work of artistic creation is fascinating, seeing hours (or sometimes more) of work compressed into a couple of virtual [...]

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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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Carey and Gross on Tom Waters’ podcast

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Mike Carey and Peter Gross discuss their highly acclaimed new series for DC, The Unwritten, on Tom Waters’ Big Words I Know By Heart podcast. Unwritten is coming out from DC at the moment in monthly form while the first collected edition, Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity, is due to be published in January [...]

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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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What a writer did before he was a writer

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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One of my favourite (and consistently most inventive) contemporary science fiction writers Charlie Stross has finished posting up a 25, 000 word piece of autobiography about how he came to be the science fiction scribe he is today, How I Got There in the End: “I was writing fiction (and articles for Computer Shopper) as [...]

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