Archive for May, 2010
Pandora SF und Fantasy 04
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Dropped through my letter-box yesterday: a contributors copy of the latest Pandora. It includes an article by me on Philip K Dick called 'Der obszohne Klecks auf Ihrem Engramm". The content's page follows that article title with 'von Adam Roberts', which presumably means I've joined the German artistocracy. Excellent! Cool John Howe cover, though, what? [...]
Keith Brooke, The Unlikely World of Faraway Frankie
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010My contributor copies for this title arrived from Ian Whates' Newcon Press last week (I wrote the short introduction). It's an excellent novel too; certainly one of the very best things this talented author has yet done. If you know what's good for you, you'll want to buy a copy, although the title's amazon page [...]
SFX
Monday, May 10th, 2010The latest, which is to say the 196th issue of SFX (out now, in May; so obviously the cover says the issue is 'July 2010') contains a lot of interesting things. But there's also an interview with me, mostly given over to me talking twitter, plus this slightly muppet-faced photo of me sitting on the [...]
Monday 10 May Piccadilly Waterstones 5:30pm
Sunday, May 9th, 2010Come along! The SFX Summer of SF Reading Stephen Hunt Adam Roberts, Dan Abnett Graham McNeill, China Mieville Michael Cobley WATERSTONE'S PICCADILLY Monday, 10 May 2010, 5:30PM To celebrate the launch of The SFX Summer of SF Reading we are delighted to host authors from the across the [sic] SF spectrum. Access to the queue [...]
Guardian Review
Saturday, May 8th, 2010I knew there was going to be a very short piece by me in today's Guardian Review about Terry Pratchett's Who-related ruminations. I knew that because I wrote the piece on Wednesday (though it doesn't appear to be online ...) What I didn't know, and didn't expect, was that the Guardian would carry the following [...]
Forbidden Planet Signing May 13th
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Forbidden Planet, but not forbidden to you. You're more than welcome to come along: Forbidden Planet and Gollancz publishing are delighted to bring you one of our now-celebrated, open-format, multi-author signings! At 6pm on Thursday May 13th, Forbidden Planet 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London will be playing host to: - • Stephen Deas • M D [...]
New Model Army signing
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010I'll be signing copies of New Model Army at Waterstones in High Wycombe, on Saturday the 15th May from 11am. Unaccountably, High Wycombe somehow escaped the depredations of my NMA in the novel itself, although nearby Maidenhead gets hammered. Perhaps the good citizens of High Wycombe wish to thank me for sparing their borough ...? [...]
Clarke result
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010... and the winner was: Miéville's The City and the City, as if you didn't know. Ah well: it's a superb novel. The ceremony was as it always is: good to see lots of people there, meet old friends and put faces to a couple of internet names. Stephen Hunt reports that Sean Pertwee was [...]
