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Pratchett talks about Aching

Just a short note. Aida Emariam in the Guardian has an interview with Terry Pratchett. He talks about I Shall Wear Midnight and the right to die. In a  way I’m happy that this is the last in the Aching … Continue reading

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Two faces of Artemis Fowl

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

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

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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Restoring the World – Ken Macleod’s The Restoration Game

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

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

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

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

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

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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