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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Clarke Award shortlist
The Arthur C Clarke shortlist tend to bring some controversy and this year is no different. The shortlist: The Red Men Matthew de Abaitua – Snow Books The H-Bomb Girl Stephen Baxter – Faber & Faber The Carhullan Army Sarah … Continue reading
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Gaiman’s Frost
Neil Gaiman’s Odd and the Frost Giants (Amazon) is a fine novella published for the World Book Day and is a delightful little read though perhaps not his best children’s novella. Odd is a strange child, and when his father … Continue reading
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Gaiman gets Frosty with Odd
Neil Gaiman has a link to a downloadable chapter of his book, Odd and the Frost Giants (Amazon). It is illustrated by the excellent Mark Buckingham and concerns the oddness of Odd. He seems like a nice enough character and … Continue reading
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Titus Alone revisited
Olivia Laing, over athe Guardian blog site, has a great piece on the underrated Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake. It tends to be forgotten against Titus Groan and Gormenghast but she argues that its possibly more interesting because it confronts … Continue reading
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Quentin Blake meets Hogarth
Quentin Blake, the children’s illustrator, meets Hogarth Brown, a budding young artist, in this video on the Guardian site.
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Eoin Colfer talks pirates
Pirate fans will probably enjoy the podcast with EoinColfer on the Guardian booksite as he talks about his love of the Treasure Island.
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Jon Scieszka on reading
Notes from the Horn Book, a free online newsletter, has an interesting interview with Jon Scieszka which will resonate with any body who reads and tries to encourage others to do so.
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Maximum Ride, minimum exposure
Crichoux, over at Bookwyrm Chrysalis, has a link to this NY Times article about James Patterson complaining that he wants his children’s books at front of store because they get lost in the children’s section. He wants parents, or at … Continue reading
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Scott Westerfeld creating Tally’s World
Scott Westerfeld is asking for help on Tally’s World, his guide to his Uglies series which was announced on his blog (though it seems to have a slight glitch at the time of writing). He’s trying to get : 1) … Continue reading
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Jeff Vandermeer’s The Situation free
PS Publishing have announced that the entire text of Jeff Vandermeer‘s new novellete, The Situation, is now available for free download before the book itself appears in three weeks’ time via www.pspublishing.co.uk/thesituation. The story is about a surrealist corporate hell. … Continue reading
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