I’ve spoken of my feelings for Iain Banks. Due to his being Officially Very Poorly, I’m going through the Culture books again – in forward, not reverse order. It would be difficult to overstate the effect of this book when it came out in 1987: Space opera was dead, cyberpunk and dark futures were all […]
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Alex Wheatle is a DJ, producer, and one of our talented Brixton authors. He places Biscuit, a young man, in the months leading up to the Brixton riots of 1981. This is an intensely personal story: Biscuit hustles in order to feed and house his family and take care of his friends in the face […]
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Gamal comes from the made-up Irish word gamalóg, but it means, roughly, village idiot. This debut has been compared to Catcher in the Rye, but it’s more of an honest description of the unrelenting nastiness of life in a small town,. Difference is squashed. Aspiration – not for money or cars, but for self-fulfilment – […]
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Jack Glass: a murderer, and a range of murderees in this fascinating future-scale book. Divided into three parts, firstly, bleak survival (and murder) in what may be the most terrifying prison ever imagined; the second, an investigation into a murder and the dizzying heights of class distinction; the final section unpacks why these murders have […]
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I respect Cory Doctorow.. He writes stories which teach, and are fun, about things which are important, but thinks that most people don’t understand and think are complicated. Information security. The security state. The appropriate role of government. Civil liberties. The stories are compelling. Readable. Written for a wide range of audiences, focussed on […]
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Look at that! That, there, is a very retro cover. And a beautiful one. I had this story that I was working on called The Next Big Thing, which is about both rather nasty relationship and the hunt for elusive cool. You can read it in this forthcoming anthology by eKhaya, the digital imprint […]
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Where to begin with Redemption in Indigo? It is progressive. Intelligent. Entertaining. Due its Kitschie tentacle. It is clearly a modern tale, but at the same time timeless: there are no mobile phones, but one wouldn’t be out of place, though it’s also common that people would know about farming, and be in touch […]
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Just finished a first draft, tentatively tited “I swear I heard”, about a boy who discovers a new style of music. Here’s the excerpt: One night you went back to Kinney’s, late, and the joint got jumping just after you got there. Everyone had been waiting for you. They were playing, but they said […]
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Three 1200 word stories. Free. What’s not to like? There are three stories, companions to the Town called Pandmonium anthology. Jesus’ brother, born in China, may need to be stopped before he grows in power. A museum thief makes a deal for his life, but at what cost? A young girl in Edinburgh writes […]
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A Pretty Mouth is a stylistic tour-de-force through Lovecraftish horror (without all that annoying rascism and sexism) and Georgian, Edwardian, and Victorian styles. It’s also really damn good. The collection begins with a Wodehouse mash-up that would have Sir Pelham spitting tentacles from his grave. Jeeves goes… I can’t even explain it. The entire collection […]
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