Archive for April, 2008
Guardian on Swiftly
Sunday, April 13th, 2008Eric Brown briefly on Swiftly: Roberts is king of the thought-experiment, and this novel begins with a grand conceit. It's 1848, and Britain and France are at war - aided respectively by the Lilliputians and the Brobdingnagians from Gulliver's Travels. Abraham Bates, opposed to his country's enslavement of the little people, has turned traitor. Seconded […]
Celebration
Friday, April 11th, 2008In the post yesterday, my contributor's copy of Ian Whates's splendid bsfa anthology of original fiction, Celebration (My contribution is called 'The Man of the Strong Arm'): Nice cover, isn't it? I'm halfway through the stories and there's some beauties in there. You could buy a copy, you know. You could.
Slimey old Salt
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Dr Simon Park has been feeding my books to his slime mould: