Monthly Archives: July 2010

Two faces of Artemis Fowl

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Iain

Artemis Fowl is happy. Very happy. Unnervingly so. His latest scheme is to reverse global warming and save the world. He’s being heroic. Its unnerving. He keeps taking and counting in multiples of five as well. Holly Short notices the … Continue reading →

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Jeepers, Blyton’s jolly japes to be updated

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Iain

Alison Flood in the Guardian has a piece on the reworking of the language in the Famous Five books which Hodder, their current publisher, are publishing in August. They will still publish the originals but the contemporary range will modernise … Continue reading →

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A reader responds to Bath and Mayne

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Iain

The news that the children’s author, KP Bath, had been sentenced for the possession of child pornography has (rightly) sparked a debate on children’s mailing lists.  It has reminded me of William Mayne whose writing career was ended by his … Continue reading →

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The neverending death of fiction

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Iain

Lee Siegel has been stirring the minor storm in a tea cup which raised its head above the parapet again in genre recently: is fiction dead?   (It was enough for the Observer to get excited about.) In an article entitled … Continue reading →

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Going through the wash – Charles Stross’s Fuller Memorandum

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Iain

It has been a while since I followed Charles Stross‘s Laundry Novels but I recently read The Fuller Memorandum which has made me want to re-read the Jennifer Morgue and Atrocity Archives. It is a slightly less madcap romp through … Continue reading →

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