Page 4 of posts filed: From the Other Side

Paul Kincaid’s From the Other Side, May 2014: Comics Unmasked exhibition, and new books from Nick Harkaway, Paul Cornell, Trudi Canavan, and Jeff VanderMeer

Posted on 2014-06-06 at 14:16 by montsamu

From the Other Side, May 2014

By Paul Kincaid

So, with the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the annual awards circus comes to an end (at least until the Hugos in August) in the splendid surroundings of the Royal Society. Under the gaze of Thomas Hobbes and Earnest Rutherford and other worthies we were treated to an award ceremony that seems to be getting longer every year. This time, for instance, there was a nicely unsettling short film from Sci-Fi London’s competition to make a film in just 48 hours, followed by

Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged jeff vandermeer, nick harkaway, paul cornell, paul kincaid, trudi canavan

Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, April 2014: Eastercon, awards news, Lagoon, Claire North, The Brick Moon, and Call and Response

Posted on 2014-04-29 at 20:6 by montsamu

From the Other Side, April 2014

By Paul Kincaid

Easter in Britain is traditionally the time for the gathering of the clans, otherwise known as Eastercon. This year it was held in Glasgow, and despite the fact that the Worldcon is in the UK this year, generally resulting in a smaller than usual Eastercon, it was by all accounts both well attended and very successful.

Of course, this year it was all about awards. For a start, there was the ‘Not the Clarke Award’ panel, by now a fixture at Eastercons. If we

Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged claire north, eastercon, lagoon, paul kincaid, the brick moon, wonderbook

Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, March 2014: The Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist, Diana Wynne Jones' The Islands of Chaldea, Ken MacLeod's Descent, and Nick Mamatas' The Last Weekend

Posted on 2014-03-28 at 18:21 by montsamu

From the Other Side: March 2014

By Paul Kincaid

Why is it that every time I go to a science fiction party it turns out to be in a cellar bar with a low ceiling and loud music, so I spend all of my time trying to make out what the person I’m talking to has actually said? That’s exactly what happened at the party to announce the shortlist for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award. So I think I heard Ian Waites of NewCon Press tell me that the collection of non-fiction by Adam Roberts, for which I have written

Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged arthur c clarke award, descent, diana wynn jones, ken macleod, nick mamatas, paul kincaid, the islands of chaldea, the last weekend, ursula jones

Paul Kincaid’s From the Other Side, February 2014: Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, Dave Hutchinson's Europe in Autumn, and The Kitschies

Posted on 2014-02-27 at 3:9 by montsamu

From the Other Side: February 2014

By Paul Kincaid

So the torrential rain and apocalyptic flooding we’ve experienced in much of Britain over the last couple of months meant that I wasn’t able to get to the Kitschies Award Ceremony, though on the up side this at least spared me the sight of whatever garish outfit Nick Harkaway had chosen to wear. The Red Tentacle for best novel went to Ruth Ozeki for A Tale for the Time Being, and for a novel that has generally had more mainstream recognition, including

Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged annihilation, dave hutchinson, europe in autumn, jeff vandermeer, paul kincaid, the kitschies

Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, January 2014: Simon Ings, Adam Roberts, James Smythe, and some awards talk

Posted on 2014-01-27 at 21:17 by montsamu

From the Other Side: January 2014

By Paul Kincaid

I’m going to use this column to talk about some of the things that are happening in science fiction in Britain each month.

January, of course, is not usually a month when publishers roll out their biggest guns, but this year seems to be something of an exception. Gollancz have brought out Wolves by Simon Ings, which I confidently expect to feature on a few best of the year lists come this time next year (I certainly expect it to feature on my list). It is

Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged adam roberts, james smythe, kate atkinson, life after life, mahendra singh, paul kincaid, simon ings, the arthur c clarke award, the echo, the kitschies, twenty trillion leagues under the sea, wolves