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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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Paul Kincaid's From The Other Side, August 2015: Alasdair Gray, Terry Pratchett, Aliette de Bodard, Paul Cornell, China Miéville, and more
Posted on 2015-09-16 at 11:0 by montsamu
From the Other Side, August 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.]
As I write this I am stuck in the sodden south of England, and I rather wish I could be in Scotland right now. I imagine it’s still raining there as well, but at least there’s the Edinburgh Festival, and in particular there’s the premiere of Lanark by David Greig. This is the long-awaited stage version of Alasdair Gray’s magnificent
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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
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