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Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, March 2016: Patrick Ness, Aliette de Bodard, Ian Whates, and new books from Gollancz and Orbit

Posted on 2016-04-12 at 18:16 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, March 2016 By Paul Kincaid

March turned out to be the height of the awards season in the UK this year. The month began with the presentation of the Kitschies, and ended with the presentation of the BSFA Awards.

I said, last month, that I was becoming worried about the Kitschies, and was immediately reassured that there was nothing to worry about, and that next

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Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged aliette de bodard, gollancz, ian whates, patrick ness, paul kincaid, the kitschies

The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Our Favorite Anthologies of 2014

Posted on 2015-01-17 at 06:03 by angelablackwell

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First we have two short story collection volumes by authors we know, Lee Martindale and David Drake. Lee’s volume crosses all genres and David’s is mostly time travel to hunt dinosaurs.

We enjoyed all the stories in Bard’s Road: The Collected Fiction of Lee Martindale (June 1, 2014, HarpHaven), even re-reading those we had read in their original publication.  We bring you highlights of the volume, as its 29-story length makes it impractical to discuss all of them.

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Our favorite has to be “Combat

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Posted in The Exploding Spaceship | Tagged bryan thomas schmidt, daniel h wilson, david drake, david thomas moore, hank davis, ian whates, jennifer brozak, john joseph adams, jonathan strahan, lee martindale, neil clarke, rich horton, scott sigler

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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Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged david mitchell, howard jacobson, ian whates, john clute, nina allen, paradox, paul kincaid, stay, the bone clocks, the race