Brian Selznick, whose The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Amazon) won the Caldecott Medal earlier this month, is that wonderful of beings: the slightly off-centre obsessed geek and it shows in his great novel. Hugo - an orphan, thief and clockmaker - lives in the train station in Paris in anonymity when he meets a mysterious [...]
Just when I thought it might be safe, J K Rowling in an interview with Time magazine has not entirely ruled out book eight in the Harry Potter world but it will be at least ten years before she thinks about it properly. In the meantime, there is an adult novel and a “political fairy [...]
The Guardian’s bookclub interviewed Philip Pullman last night and have podcast the result today. He talks about Milton, morality, plot and language.
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If you have not read Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest trilogy then shame on you. Its a passionate plea for environmental awareness and also a good read (though I’m still in love with the Years of Rice and Salt). BLDG blog have a great interview with him about the books and the environment here.
I ran an [...]
Simon Morden holds degrees in geology and planetary geophysics but that didn’t stop him from writing fiction. His first novel was Heart (2002), a contemporary fantasy with Arthurian undertones. His latest book, The Lost Art (2007), is an sf novel with strong fantasy undertones which I rated highly as a really good, thoughtful read when [...]
Linda Buckley-Archer spoke to the Guardian regarding her timeslip books in which two children get sent back to 1753 and an eighteenth century thief sent to the 21st century.
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Terry Brooks has just published Elves of Cintra, the latest in the Genesis of Shannara books. I caught up with him at Fantasycon and he was kind enough to answer a few questions.
With the new series you are binding together the Word and the Void and the Shannara series. How’s that working out for you [...]
Jeff Vandermeer’s blog has this link to an interview with him on Dark Roasted Blend. Amongst the great art which features on Vandermeer’s covers is some good, thought provoking text which centres on the notion of individual taste in genre, something which we either take for granted or ignore. Well worth a read.
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GRR Martin, Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham have written the fantastic Hunter’s Run, developed from an original novella. Daniel Abraham, whose UK debut The Long Price (Book one: Shadow and Betrayal) is out next month kindly answered some questions on the novel and his involvement.
What made you join up with Gardner Dozois and GRR Martin [...]
The Heinlein Archives have gone online now. From the website:
“The Heinlein Archives presents digital copies of the entire collections of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein in downloadable form for research and academic purposes. Heinlein’s OPUS manuscripts is the first complete collection presented. These manuscript files include Heinlein’s files of all his published works with his [...]