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  Les Edwards & Edward Miller
posted by rwgray on Monday February 11, @08:11AM ( Printer Friendly Version. | Email this article )
News alex@owal.co.uk writes "Les Edwards was the artist guest of honour at Intersection in 1995. His websites have been updated.

http://www.lesedwards.com
http://www.edwardmiller.co.uk "

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Charles Stross novella available online
posted by rwgray on Sunday February 10, @01:15PM ( Printer Friendly Version. | Email this article )
News alex@owal.co.uk writes " Charles Stross, who will be one of the guests of honour at Orbital, has made one of his novellas, "Missile Gap", available online free: http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring2007/fiction-missile-gap-by-charles-stross/ Eastercon 2008 http://www.orbital2008.org/ "

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BIG AUDIO ANTIPOPE - REVIEW RESURRECTED (again)
posted by rwgray on Sunday February 10, @01:13PM ( Printer Friendly Version. | Email this article )
Science Fiction I hadn't realised just how good a writer Robert Rankin was until I heard this wonderful dramatisation in 2003. The Audio Antipope is an eight-CD set, running to a little under ten hours, bravely complete and unabridged. Full cast list included after the review here, restored from the DIVERSEBOOKS archive today. For some reason, you seem to have to go to the "Printer Friendly Version" link just above here to see the rest of this review!

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New SF/F books and updates
posted by rwgray on Sunday February 10, @01:03PM ( Printer Friendly Version. | Email this article )
News Ikthalion Press writes "IKTHALION PRESS http://www.ikthalionpress.com News Release February 2008 Sherman Oaks, California

Presenting the CHILDREN OF THE DRAGON series by T. M. Moore, a chronicle of the Xosan, humanoid vampires from the ancient planet Antellus who were once human but transformed by a dragon's blood. They are adventures of action, espionage, horror, romance, science fact and fantasy, myth and history; set in a universe as real as the reader's own and intermixed with real historical events.

About the author: T. M. Moore is an avid reader and writer of science fantasy adventure and a fan of genre films. She writes in a strong visual and cinematic style that brings the reader into her fictional world but leaves room for the reader's own imagination, ever with the mission to educate as well as entertain."

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SORRY for the downtime
posted by alexmc6 on Sunday December 09, @01:24PM ( Printer Friendly Version. | Email this article )
News Well, all I can say is I am sorry for the down time. I could go through my list of excuses but.... Due to the old machine being switched off prematurely we have lost a few months of articles - these will be slowly added back in over the coming few weeks.

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Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash - Review
posted by alexmc6 on Friday May 04, @07:49AM ( Printer Friendly Version. | Email this article )
Science Fiction Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash - Review Markus reviews Snow Crash, a Cyberpunk classic by Neil Stephenson, and quite likes "the Neuromancer for the 90s" as it was billed (curse the marketeers), despite the underlying plot being a bit 'far-fetched'.

Now now, since when did this stop a good SF story? Great book, compulsive reading, a classic indeed - if you can (still) abide yesteryear's 'latest thing', i.e. Cyberpunk.

Read the full review on Diversebooks - and May the 4th be with you! ;-D

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BSFA Awards 2006 Press Release
posted by Markus on Thursday May 03, @05:34AM ( Printer Friendly Version. | Email this article )
Awards Alex McLintock writes:
The British Science Fiction Awards for 2006 were presented in a ceremony on the evening of Saturday the 7th of April at Contemplation, the 58th National British sciene fiction convention (Eastercon).

The award for Best Novel went to Jon Courtenay Grimwood, for End of the World Blues (Gollancz); the award was presented to Jon by Ian McDonald.

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S P Somtow - Riverrun - Review
posted by alexmc6 on Monday April 30, @05:47AM ( Printer Friendly Version. | Email this article )
Fantasy Riverrun S P Somtow SucharitulMarkus reviews Riverrun, the initial instalment in the Trilogy of the same name by S. P. Somtow (aka Somtow Sucharitkul), and finds it a fascinating escapist Dark Fantasy, starring Vampires, Dragons, and the river that runs through the entire Universe, holding together all worlds – all wrapped up in a King Lear based background scenario.
A great book, aimed at the older Adolescent to Adult market.

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At Play in the Killing Fields - Joseph DeMarco
posted by Markus on Friday April 27, @06:04AM ( Printer Friendly Version. | Email this article )
Science Fiction Barry Allen reviews At Play in the Killing Fields - The False Prophet of Fennimore Place by Joseph DeMarco:

At Play in the Killing Fields is a series of three very different science fiction stories that center around Joe Kaye (See also: The False Prophet of Fennimore Place). Although each story is significantly different they seem to carry similar themes about energy, education and the conservation of our planet's natural resources.
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This book is very imaginative and reminds me of a cross between Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Stream and anything by Philip K. Dick.

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Ken MacLeod - Cosmonaut Keep - Review
posted by alexmc6 on Monday April 23, @08:26AM ( Printer Friendly Version. | Email this article )
Science Fiction Ken MacLeod – Cosmonaut Keep - Review Markus writes on the topic of Cosmonaut Keep, the first book in Ken MacLeod’s "Engines of Light" series:
Given that I recently managed to buy not one, but two copies of this book I thought I'd better give one of them a spin... what I found was an excellent book, which was nominated for a Hugo Award for good reason (no, it couldn't win, not against 'American Gods'!). Recommended – and I'm now after the other two books in the Trilogy. One copy only, though, if I can help it.

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  • Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash - Review
  • S P Somtow - Riverrun - Review
  • At Play in the Killing Fields - Joseph DeMarco
  • Ken MacLeod - Cosmonaut Keep - Review
  • Michael Moorcock - London Bone - Review
  • Melanie McGrath - Hard, Soft and Wet - Review
  • Neal Asher - The Skinner - Review
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