Archive for February, 2011
Fringe Interview
Thursday, February 24th, 2011A while ago the estimable Scott Wilson interviewed me about parodies and such for Oz's premier genre magazine, The Fringe. You'll find the original here. If you don't do so already then you'll want to keep up to date with The Fringe, for it is good. At any rate, here's the Q & A: The [...]
A new superhero is born
Sunday, February 20th, 2011As you can see, this particular Departmental Board didn't hold my entire attention. When I had finished the doodle, my friend and colleague Doug Cowie leant over and said: 'no he doesn't! He fucks flowers.'
Zyskish
Monday, February 14th, 2011So here are “Projekt Stalin” and “Opowieść Zombilijna”, two of my novels rendered into the ancient and beautiful language of Poland and published there by the excellently-named publisher, Zysk i S-ka. I can't judge the skill of the translation, lacking Polish; but I can report that these are lovely examples of book-production, inside as well [...]
February
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011In what I can't help but take as another example of this interesting phenomenon, SciFi Crowsnest's 'The Hyper Hundred: best scifi novels of 2010' includes my novel Splinter (Solaris 2007). I'm very pleased, obviously.
Don’t be Vague: go to the Hague
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011So, what are you doing this weekend? Me, I delivering the New Year's Lecture at the Universiteit Leiden, Campus Den Haag (Friday 5th February, starting at 7pm) at the invitation of the LUC Brill Nijhoff Writing Institute. Here's a (PDF) document detailing this interesting and diverting occasion; I believe it's not too late to register. [...]
