Monthly Archives: June 2010

Restoring the World – Ken Macleod’s The Restoration Game

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Iain

I’ve just finished Ken Macleod‘s The Restoration Game (Orbit, £18.99) and I’m still slightly agog. Lucy Stone is asked by an unknown agency to go back to Krassnia, a small Russian republic in the Caucasus. Her mother, Anna, created the … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers on Mervyn Peake

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Iain

The Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy has issued a call for papers for their conference on Mervyn Peake next year. It certianly a conference that I’ll be trying to attend, even if I don’t contribute a paper.

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Gaiman’s checks in Jack Benny

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Iain

Just listening the repeat of John Lloyd’s Museum of Curiosities with Sarah Millican and Neil Gaiman. Gaiman has just checked in The Jack Benny Show (archives appear to here)  into  the museum as a way of showing the power of … Continue reading →

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Filtered perceptions of now – Jeff Vandermeer’s Finch

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Iain

I’ve only managed to read one book this week and that is Jeff Vandermeer‘s Finch published in the UK by Corvus Books. Before you go further, this review does contain spoilers. Just a friendly warning. Alongside New Crobuzon, Ambergris is … Continue reading →

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Pratchett’s Earth is going to get Long

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Iain

The Independent has news of Terry Pratchett’s Long Earth books are going to be published as a collaboration with Stephen Baxter. Written shortly after the completion of Equal Rites, the sf series posits a universe where Earth is one of … Continue reading →

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Weeknotes: Where the Wild Things Are, Neil Gaiman

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Iain

I’ve finally started re-reading and re-writing my book with a little more earnest this week. I’ve was merrily putting it off and then just knuckled down and began. There is a definite art in trying not to melt through the … Continue reading →

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Weeknotes: Seeing Alice flashforward

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Iain

It has mainly been a visual sort of week. I saw the FlashForward finale which I’m sure was thought of as “in which we seriously screw the pooch”. What might have been an interesting high concept series musing on multiple … Continue reading →

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