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autotelia in arc
Arc launches in late February. Issue 1.1: China Mieville on squid. Bruce Sterling on everything. Me in Autotelia, staring about in the usual postures of wonder. “Maybe, you think, this is something to do with marriages, births or deaths, some … Continue reading
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empty space again
Light & Nova Swing were about going inside something–maybe yourself–& not coming out again. Empty Space seems to be about going inside then coming back so changed you might as well have been (& indeed might well have been) something … Continue reading
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neil gaiman presents LIGHT as an audiobook
Light will be turned on at Neil Gaiman Presents next Tuesday, with an introduction by Neil & a sample of Julian Elfer’s reading. I’ll put up a link to the page as soon as it’s available. It’s exciting to be … Continue reading
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audiobooks
Light & Viriconium are going to feature in the Neil Gaiman Presents audiobook range from ACX. I’m in awe of Simon Vance, who’s reading Viriconium. I can just about get through a short story before my voice is trashed.
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the book (2)
Gollancz acknowledged delivery of the book a couple of days ago. As far as I know it’s still on course for April 19th 2012. Meanwhile there’s a brief extract here.
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the book
Anna Kearney: Anna is trying to come to terms with her life. Since Michael Kearney walked into the sea off Mann Hill Beach, she’s remarried & has a grown-up daughter. Though she spent decades “pretending to be an adult”, Anna … Continue reading
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pearlant notebook
Complexity, weirdness, characterisations like little stained glass sideshows. Motives don’t need so much defining as presenting in action. Characters do things because they want to. That’s all we know. Equally, the text shows you something because it wants to. I … Continue reading
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note to self
While Pony Boy, making coffee in the kitchen, murmurs Everything you look at’s art, I force myself to consider this: as you improvise your way to the whole, so the whole begins to control your improvisation. Some thinking like that … Continue reading
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