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And so 2006 nears its end
By Adam Roberts | December 4, 2006
Categories: Book News
I'm really quite excited by this; the excellent German press Heyne have published translated-into-German versions of several of my parodies; but this is the first of my 'proper novels' to receive this illustrious metamorphosis: Salt from 2000. And what a beautiful cover! One of the handsomest I've seen. So I urge and exhort you to go to Amazon.de, see it in situ and (who knows?) and buy a copy.Lovely, lovely. Also green.
Other news, I've been revising Land of the Headless, and putting the finishing touches to Swiftly, this latter, by the way, one of the best things I've done. One other thing for now, and more substantial writing/publishing updates in a fortnight. I've started blogging. As you know, I've been part of the group blog at The Valve for a while now. But I've finally pushed the boat out and started a blog of my own. Actually, I've started three blogs. One, with a proggy sort of name, is updated daily and is the repository of my more pretentious, or profound, apothegmatic observations. A second, named for the diddly and punky twist of my mind, is for fiction and pictures. A third, named for a character from Round the Horne, is a diary-style blog. These three have been up for a month or so now, and I shall continue them into the indefinite future.
Blogging update
By Adam Roberts | October 3, 2006
Categories: Lit Crit
The Valve, where I am one of the authors, continues to publish excellent stuff, not least a presently-on-going symposium about the latest book by the excellent Walter Benn Michaels. Which really should grab your attention. Now, having read thoroughly through the 'WBM' event, and if you have the time, and inclination, to delve deeper into the archives of this ‘Literary Organ’ you’ll find essays by me on such diverse subjects as:Piers Plowman; The Count of Monte Cristo; Craig Thomas, the Firefox fellow; The Primum Mobile; Beowulf (I’m fond of that one, by the way; though it elicted some rather severe comments from experts in the Beowulf field); AC/DC and Derrida; Gay sexuality
Is that enough to be getting on with? I’d say so.
30th June 2006. Birthday.
By Adam Roberts | June 30, 2006
Categories: Book News
So, yes, forty-one. There you go. Is there news?
Yes, there is news. Gradisil continues to be reviewed, sometimes very flatteringly, as is the case on Emerald City. Gosh, EmCit has never before been so nice to me. I’m not quite sure what to say. Lou Anders picks up on the review too, and bigs-up Justina Robson’s new one too. Justina and I are Arvon-ing from August 28th to September 2nd.
Writing. Still writing. I revised and, to be honest, quite thoroughly rewrote a novel I was previously calling A Splinter of the World, adding ten thousand words or so and provisionally retitling it Hector in the process, for Nightshade Books, hopefully for publication in 2007. Land of the Headless is still with my editor, Simon Spanton, at Orionbooks. A new novel, A Solid Gold Penny, is almost complete in first-draft form.
And I’m still writing for the Valve: on Hamburger, Seneca, prosody, Star Wars, music and religion, things like that. Go and see.