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Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, May 2016: Baxter and Reynolds, Asher, MacLeod, McAuley, Rajaniemi, Cornell, Gaiman, and more

Posted on 2016-06-16 at 15:9 by montsamu

[Editor’s Note: From the Other Side is Paul Kincaid’s monthly column on books and news from the other side of the Atlantic.]

From the Other Side, May 2016 By Paul Kincaid

May seems to be the month when the big boys come out to play (and yes, sadly it does seem to be mostly boys). And they don’t come much bigger than Arthur C. Clarke. Well, no, there isn’t a new book from Sir Arthur, but the last work of fiction by him that actually won an sf award was the novella “A Meeting With Medusa” which received the

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Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged alastair reynolds, arthur c clarke, eoin colfer, hannu rajaniemi, jeff noon, ken macleod, lionel shriver, neil gaiman, paul cornell, paul kincaid, paul mcauley, stephen baxter

Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, February 2015: Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod's Poems, E.J. Swift's Tamaruq, Naomi Foyle's Rook Song, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Signal to Noise, Jonathan Barnes' Cannonbridge, and much more

Posted on 2015-03-03 at 16:39 by montsamu

From the Other Side, February 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.]

Most poignant publication of the month has to be Poems by Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod (Little Brown). The book came out on 16th February, which would have been Banks’s 61st birthday, and also, incidentally, the 31st anniversary of the publication of The Wasp Factory. The book was planned before his death in 2013, and includes 50

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Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged bsfa, ej swift, iain banks, jonathan barnes, kameron hurley, ken macleod, naomi foyle, neil gaiman, paul kincaid, silvia moreno-garcia, the kitschies

Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, December 2014: new books from Ben Elton, Russell Brand, Neil Gaiman, Jenny Erpenbeck, and Brian Baker

Posted on 2015-01-14 at 21:11 by montsamu

From the Other Side, December 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.]

It’s the time of year when publishers (like the rest of us) tend to concentrate on parties, on closing early for the holidays, and on hoping that books published earlier in the year keep providing an income now. So I have, inevitably, less that’s new to talk about this time around.

Christmas is, of course, the time for celebrity

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Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged ben elton, brian baker, chris riddell, jenny erpenbeck, neil gaiman, paul kincaid, russell brand, the end of days, the pied piper of hamelin, the sleeper and the spindle, time and time again