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Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, October 2015: British Fantasy Awards, David Mitchell's Slade House, Hal Duncan's Testament, Julia Knight's Swords and Scoundrels, and more
Posted on 2015-11-03 at 18:58 by montsamu
From the Other Side, October 2015 By Paul Kincaid
[Editor’s Note: From the Other Side is Paul Kincaid’s monthly column on books and news from the other side of the Atlantic.]
Good grief, it can’t be award season again already, can it? Apparently, it can. Or at least, we have had this year’s British Fantasy Convention, and with the convention come the British Fantasy Awards. An interesting selection this year, not least because there are so many women among the winners. These include the Robert Holdstock
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Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, June 2015: David Mitchell, Al Robertson's Crashing Heaven, Chris Beckett, Neal Stephenson, Terry Pratchett, Laura Barnett, and more
Posted on 2015-07-04 at 11:52 by montsamu
From the Other Side, June 2015 By Paul Kincaid
[Editor’s Note: From the Other Side is Paul Kincaid’s monthly column on books and news from the other side of the Atlantic.]
It has turned out to be something of a David Mitchell month for me. First to the glorious setting of the Union Chapel in North London where Mitchell and Neil Gaiman were in conversation, with Erica Wagner, the Literary Editor of The Times as a (fairly unnecessary) moderator. It turns out that, though they admire each other’s work, this
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Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, August 2014: New books from NewCon and Beccon, and two sf novels getting serious mainstream attention
Posted on 2014-09-03 at 14:35 by montsamu
From the Other Side, August 2014
By Paul Kincaid
[Editor's Note: "From the Other Side" is Paul Kincaid's monthly column on books and news from the other side of the Atlantic.]
So the biggest science fiction event in Britain has come and gone. For the record, I thought Capaldi makes a very interesting Doctor, but Moffatt remains a terrible scriptwriter. It seems to me that Doctor Who is going the way of Sherlock: glitzy and full of in-references for the fans, but rather short of coherent storytelling and
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