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Paul Kincaid’s From the Other Side, September 2016: Christopher Priest's The Gradual, Alastair Reynolds' Revenger, Jonathan L. Howard, P.S. Publishing, and more

Posted on 2016-10-11 at 14:13 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, September 2016 By Paul Kincaid

So, we’ve been away on holiday. Yes, Wales again. And indeed we did have a very good time, thank you for asking. Lots of reading, practically none of it science fiction (it was a holiday, you know).

Actually, I did finish one science fiction novel I’d begun before the holiday, The Gradual by Christopher Priest (Gollancz). Well, I

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Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, August 2016: The Arthur C. Clarke Awards, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Nalini Singh, Martin MacInnes, Gaie Sebold, Jeff Noon, and more

Posted on 2016-09-08 at 13:19 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, August 2016 By Paul Kincaid

We’ve become used to the fact that any science fiction event these days is going to be held in a crowded, low-ceilinged room with no chairs and a noise level barely short of deafening. But when it’s the Arthur C. Clarke Award ceremony in the middle of a broiling August you have the additional delight of heat. “At least it’s air

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September Newsletter: Sabaa Tahir and Renée Ahdieh, The Bookmarks Festival, Colson Whitehead, W. Scott Poole, and (in October) Marie Lu and Jonathan Lethem

Posted on 2016-09-06 at 18:44 by montsamu

Vol 6 No 8. Tuesday, September 6, 2016: Well, by skipping a newsletter in August, the September newsletter is at least coming out in the neighborhood of the beginning of the month. There are dozens and dozens of pieces of news and announcements and new events to pass along this month, but first! there are also two events on the calendar for TODAY so let's get to them first, shall we?

At 4 pm, McIntyre's Books presents The Last Kids on Earth and the Zombie Parade, with Max Brallier. "Join us at the

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Coming to Town: W. Scott Poole for In the Mountains of Madness: The Life, Death, and Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft, at Malaprop's Bookstore and Scuppernong Books, reviewed by Nick Mamatas

Posted on 2016-08-31 at 14:17 by montsamu

So, Soft Skull Press is set to publish College of Charleston historian and Lovecraft aficionado W. Scott Poole's new book In the Mountains of Madness: The Life, Death, and Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft in September, and Poole is set to launch the book at Asheville's Malaprop's Bookstore on Wednesday, September 7, with a second reading in North Carolina on Thursday, September 22 at Greensboro's Scuppernong Books. The book comes bearing blurbs from Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom

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Statement on suspending The Exploding Spaceship column

Posted on 2016-08-24 at 1:7 by montsamu

It has come to my attention that Angela and Gerald, the authors of the Bull Spec column "The Exploding Spaceship", violated the anti-harassment policy at MidAmericon II, the 74th WorldCon, as well as a specific "do not contact" request by one of the attendees, in effect since the previous WisCon, by repeatedly approaching an attendee who had asked to be left alone, and attempting to grab the badge of someone who placed themselves between that attendee and Angela and Gerald. In the semi-public discussion in

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Friday Quick Updates: Edmund R. Schubert's This Giant Leap, new-new and updated events, award news, and more

Posted on 2016-08-12 at 14:56 by montsamu

Friday, August 12, 2016: As promised there isn't a newsletter coming this month, but that certainly isn't to say there isn't a lot of news to pass along. So! Here we go, starting with a "new-new" event tonight in Greensboro that a lot of Triangle (and beyond) folks are excited about:

At 7 pm, Greensboro’s Scuppernong Books (304 S Elm St) hosts Edmund R. Schubert for a reading and signing of his new science fiction collection This Giant Leap. Published earlier this year by Charlotte's Falstaff Books (John

Posted in Friday Quick Updates | Tagged AJ Hartley, edmund r schubert, scuppernong books, ursula vernon, w scott poole

Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, July 2016: NewCon Press turns 10, collections from Alastair Reynolds and M. John Harrison, sf/f and "mainstream" novels, and the strains of the fantastic in this year's Booker Prize

Posted on 2016-08-11 at 14:49 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, July 2016 By Paul Kincaid

Ian Whates’s NewCon Press celebrated its 10th birthday with a party in London at the beginning of the month. Those who attended, including a goodly number of NewCon’s authors and others including Anne Charnock, Kim Lakin-Smith, Nick Wood, Edward Cox, Keith Brooke and David Langford, all received a free copy of X Marks the Spot a

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July/August Newsletter: Events with Tony Daniel, Gwenda Bond, Christos Gage, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, and Drew Magary, and the 2016 Manly Wade Wellman Award goes to...

Posted on 2016-07-28 at 18:13 by montsamu

Vol 6 No 7. Thursday, July 28, 2016: Oh, what's another newsletter coming out near the tail end of the month? At least this time I'm going to go ahead and call it now: there won't be another newsletter going out until September.

First, though, while there are events tonight and tomorrow and this weekend that deserve your attention, it's only once a year that I get to pass along North Carolina science fiction and fantasy news at this level: The 2016 Manly Wade Wellman Award goes to...

Charlotte author

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Friday Quick Updates: Serafina and Millarworld in the Triangle, a big ConGregate preview, and more!

Posted on 2016-07-15 at 16:0 by montsamu

Friday, July 15, 2016: It's going to be a fantastic weekend in High Point, so whether you're driving or taking the train (it's less than a block walk from the station to the hotel!), travel safe on your way to ConGregate! But before I go on (at length!) about ConGregate, there are also a few things happening in and around the Triangle this weekend, so I'll get started with those:

• July 15 (Friday) 6 pm -- The Streets at Southpoint Barnes & Noble in Durham hosts Asheville author Robert Beatty for Serafi

Posted in Friday Quick Updates, Uncategorized | Tagged congregate, gabriel dunston, robert beatty

Paul Kincaid’s From the Other Side, June 2016: Brexit, Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett, Charles Stross, Simon R. Green, Peter Newman, Mark Lawrence, Jenny T. Colgan, and more

Posted on 2016-07-11 at 7:48 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, June 2016 By Paul Kincaid

So, in an inexplicable fit of self-destructive folly, the UK has voted to leave the EU. It’ll be a while yet before all the fall-out becomes clear, but we’ve already seen massive economic problems, Scotland talking once more of independence, and the two major political parties tearing themselves apart. Somehow, I’m not going to be

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