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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 15:09 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, 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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Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, March 2014: The Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist, Diana Wynne Jones' The Islands of Chaldea, Ken MacLeod's Descent, and Nick Mamatas' The Last Weekend
Posted on 2014-03-28 at 18:21 by montsamu
From the Other Side: March 2014
By Paul Kincaid
Why is it that every time I go to a science fiction party it turns out to be in a cellar bar with a low ceiling and loud music, so I spend all of my time trying to make out what the person I’m talking to has actually said? That’s exactly what happened at the party to announce the shortlist for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award. So I think I heard Ian Waites of NewCon Press tell me that the collection of non-fiction by Adam Roberts, for which I have written
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