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Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, March 2015: remembering Terry Pratchett, covering The Kitschies, and new books from Kazuo Ishiguro, Tom McCarthy, Antonia Honeywell, Paul McAuley, and not Adam Roberts

Posted on 2015-03-31 at 18:43 by montsamu

From the Other Side, March 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.]

So the embuggeration won. We always knew it would, but even so … The first thing Terry Pratchett ever said to me was “Sorry.” I’d been organising the programme for a science fiction convention, and a publisher I’d never heard of contacted me to ask if we could invite one of his brand new authors as a guest. We didn’t know the author

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Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged adam roberts, kazuo ishiguro, paul kincaid, terry pratchett, the buried giant, the kitschies, tom mccarthy

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

Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, November 2014

Posted on 2014-12-05 at 17:42 by montsamu

From the Other Side, November 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.]

Okay, let’s get this out of the way right at the start: there’s another new book from Adam Roberts. What’s that? I hear you cry. But didn’t he have a novel out in January (Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea from Gollancz, yes), and another novel in September (the excellent Bete also from Gollancz, yes), and wasn’t there a

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Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged adam roberts, paul kincaid

Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, October 2014: 12 Doctors, Peter F. Hamilton, Lavie Tidhar, Ann Leckie, and Garry Kilworth

Posted on 2014-11-07 at 11:0 by montsamu

From the Other Side, October 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.]

Sometime around the middle of October there is a date that is very special for the publishing industry. It is the day when more books are published than at any other time, indeed there are some who suggest that more books are published than in the whole of the rest of the year combined. They are, largely, books aimed at the

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Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged adam roberts, akira, alien, ancillary sword, ann leckie, brazil, doctor who, garry kilworth, lavie tidhar, paul kincaid, peter f hamilton

Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, September 2014: Graham Joyce, Adam Roberts, Infinity Plus, Gwyneth Jones, and more

Posted on 2014-10-07 at 13:35 by montsamu

From the Other Side, September 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.]

September has been a sad month, since it opened with the death of Graham Joyce. You would be hard put to find any photograph of Graham in which he didn’t have a huge grin. It’s a measure of the man: he was charming, delightful, great company and someone who enjoyed life to the full. He was also one of the finest fantasists you

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Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged adam roberts, graham joyce, gwyneth jones, howard jacobson, infinity plus, keith brooke, orbit, paul kincaid

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

Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, July 2014: Irregularity edited by Jared Shurin, and other happenings and books pre-LonCon

Posted on 2014-08-01 at 17:52 by montsamu

From the Other Side, July 2014

By Paul Kincaid

Most disturbing news of the month came right at the beginning of July when we learned that Terry Pratchett had pulled out of this summer’s International Discworld Convention in Manchester because of what he calls ‘The Embuggerance’. So far his early-onset Alzheimer’s disease has not affected his attendance at events like that, but now, as he says, it ‘is finally catching up with me’. Though he still seems to be keeping up with his writing schedule. In the

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Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged british film institute, hannu rajaniemi, irregularity, jared shurin, joe abercrombie, jurassic london, national maritime museum, nine worlds, paul kincaid, rachel pollack

Paul Kincaid’s From the Other Side, June 2014: One Three One, Barricade, the Gemmell Awards, and more

Posted on 2014-07-03 at 17:49 by montsamu

From the Other Side, June 2014

By Paul Kincaid

Okay, we have to accept that, however much we might value its qualities, science fiction can sometimes serve as a repository for the mad, the bizarre, the plain bonkers. Which may be why we get One Three One: A Time-Shifting Gnostic Hooligan Road Novel by Julian Cope (Faber). Cope is, of course, the former lead singer of The Teardrop Explodes who has also written  couple of well-received books on ancient megaliths, and some eclectic works on obscure rock

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Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged andy remic, barricade, charles stross, jon wallace, julian cope, mark lawrence, one three one, paul kincaid, terry pratchett

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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Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged jeff vandermeer, nick harkaway, paul cornell, paul kincaid, trudi canavan

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