Ben Aaronovitch was born and raised in London and all his work has reflected his abiding fascination and love for what he modestly likes to refer to as the ‘Capital of the World’.
In his youth he wrote for Doctor Who (his ‘Remembrance of the Daleks‘ is regarded as a classic by many) Casualty and the late lamented space soap Jupiter Moon – a show so low budget that you were only allowed seven of the regular cast in any given episode! Read the rest of this entry »
The multi-award winning author of The Light Ages, House of Storms, The Great Wheel and a host of short stories and novellas, Ian R. Macleod has become one of the most distinctive and exciting voices in British science fiction – a fact born out by his most recent novel Song of Time (PS Publishing) winning the 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award… Read the rest of this entry »
Chris Schuler has dropped us a line to tell us about the launch of his brand new blog, Notes in the Margin – “A new blog concentrating on books, publishing news, and literary anecdotes.”
Ellen Datlow has posted the table of contents and the fantastic cover art for her upcoming anthology Lovecraft Unbound, over on her livejournal page.
The book is to be published by M Press in October and features a fantastic line up of authors – including Michael Chabon, Joyce Carole Oates and our own rising star Lavie Tidhar. His story is entitled One Day, Soon and was previously mentioned by the author in this interview that appeared on the Apex Book Company web site last October.
Aliette de Bodard is a Computer Engineer who moonlights as a speculative fiction writer in her spare time. She graduated in 2007 from Ecole Polytechnique, one of France’s top engineering schools, and went on to find a job which involved two of her loves, mathematics and programming computers.
She was already writing science fiction and fantasy short stories during her studies, though it took her a few years to get them published. She won Second Place in Writers of the Future in 2006.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in places such as Interzone, Black Static, and Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. She currently lives in Paris… Read the rest of this entry »
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Stephen Volk is the creator/writer of the multi award-winning ITV drama series Afterlife starring Lesley Sharp and Andrew Lincoln, and the notorious, almost legendary, BBCTV ‘Halloween hoax’ drama Ghostwatch.
An established screenwriter in Britain and the USA, his credits include Ken Russell’s Gothic, a retelling of the Mary Shelley/Frankenstein story; The Guardian, directed by William Friedkin, and Octane.He also won a BAFTA for his short film script The Deadness of Dad starring Rhys Ifans. Read the rest of this entry »
The February 09 issue of Apex Magazine leads with a brand new Lavie Tidhar story entitled Dark Planet. Follow this link to read it free online. Also in this issue is the latest of Lavie’s entertaining essays in his Confessions of a Book Junkie series – be sure to check out the back issues for more of these if you missed them first time around.
Strange Meeting, Chris Schuler‘s fascinating article about his trip to Kalingrad is available to read online over at The New Statesman web site.
That indispensable and very excellent genre site Suvudu has put Five Questions to Peter V. Brett, author of The Painted Man, published here in the UK by Voyager and soon to be released in the US by Del Rey under the title The Warded Man. This superb fantasy has now sold into ten territories and negotiations are afoot for further sales. Book two in the series, The Desert Spear is due out later this year.
‘An absolute masterpiece… for me, the novel was literally “unputdownable,” and certainly deserves to be the next Big Thing in dark fantasy.’ — Horrorscope (Australia) on The Painted Man.
E J (Emma) Swift is a writer and novelist of science-fiction and fantasy.
Her debut novel OSIRIS will be published by Night Shade Books in summer 2012, and is the first in a trilogy, The Osiris Project.
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Brandon Sanderson is the author of six novels. His debut novel a stand-alone fantasy, Elantris, was published by Tor in 2005 and was followed by the highly acclaimed Mistborn Trilogy, comprising The Final Empire (2006), The Well of Ascension (2007) and The Hero of Ages (2008). He has also written two YA novels for Scholastic with further titles in the pipeline.
Following the death of fantasy author Robert Jordan in 2007, Brandon was chosen to complete the twelfth and final title in Jordan’s huge and epic sequence The Wheel of Time. Entitled A Memory of Light, this book is currently scheduled for publication by Tor some time in late 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
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Elizabeth Moon was born March 7, 1945, and grew up in McAllen, Texas, graduating from McAllen High School in 1963. She has a B.A. in History from Rice University (1968) and another in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin (1975) with graduate work in Biology at the University of Texas, San Antonio.
She served in the USMC from 1968 to 1971, first at MCB Quantico and then at HQMC. She married Richard Moon, a Rice classmate and Army officer, in 1969; they moved to the small central Texas town where they still live in 1979. They have one son, born in 1983. Read the rest of this entry »
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TANYA HUFF is one of today’s most popular fantasy/sf authors. Following three years in the Canadian Naval Reserve, a year studying forestry, a winter hanging around Universal Studios backlot, studies for a degree in radio and television arts and some time selling sunglasses off a pushcart after budget cuts led to a staff reduction at the CBC, she turned to writing in the mid-80s, and now resides in rural Ontario, a few hours from Toronto. Read the rest of this entry »
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It has taken twenty-five years of hard work for Charlaine Harris to become an overnight success. She has written all sorts from poetry and plays to novels in many genres – mysteries, crime, romance – but it is her supernatural stories that have turned her into a true global superstar. The hugely popular Sookie Stackhouse series about a “telepathic Louisiana barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures” has been published in Japan, Greece, Germany, Thailand, Spain, France, and Russia as well as here and, of course in the US and this list of territories continues to expand. Read the rest of this entry »
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Raised on a steady diet of fantasy novels, comic books, and ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, Peter V. Brett (“Peat” to his friends) has been writing fantasy stories for as long as he can remember. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Art History from the University at Buffalo in 1995, and then spent over a decade in pharmaceutical publishing before returning to his bliss. His début novel, The Painted Man (AKA The Warded Man in the US) was published in the UK (HarperCollins Voyager) in September 2008 to fantastic critical acclaim and was named one of Amazon.co.uk’s 10 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels of 2008, and has been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy, and the series has (so far) sold to Germany, France, Greece, Japan, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Spain, and Portugal. Read the rest of this entry »