David Wingrove’s CHUNG KUO – Update

Y’know, one thing I’ve learned about the publishing industry is that whatever timetable is agreed, provisionally or otherwise, you can usually assume that rescheduling will take place somewhere along the line. As it is with the ongoing progress relating to the republication of Dave Wingrove’s Chung Kuo epic by Atlantic Books. As mentioned before, David [...]

Michael Moore Throws Down The Gauntlet

Michael Moore, documentary-maker and progressive, has thrown down the gauntlet to ANY Democrat in the US congress who votes against the Public Option for healthcare reform in America. As some may know, he has a new film coming out, Capitalism: A Love Story, which opens in American theatres this coming weekend. From advance reviews and [...]

Dunderheads Ahoy!

This little news item almost passed me by, but Ken Macleod caught it and posted about it on his blog (see on the left below). The story goes thus – Kim Stanley Robinson criticised this year’s Booker Prize for having had no SF novels in serious running for the award, saying that British SF was [...]

Paradise Lost: Masters Of Disquieting Metal

It goes back to that double album, Draconian Times, which the band Paradise Lost put out in 1995 (heck, 14 year ago), after which I was utterly captivated by their sound, that grimly insistent, riffs-a-plenty style whose tone swung between a kind of moody magnificence and angry despair. Having tipped off Dave Wingrove to them, he [...]

Bioshock Novel: Ken Levine Salts The Fries

Just found a July interview with Ken Levine, the mastermind behind the groundbreaking game, Bioshock, in which he mentions that the Bioshock novel is being written by non other than…John Shirley! Yes, indeedy, that John Shirley, author of City Come A-Walkin, the Eclipse Trilogy, and loads of great short stories. For more info on Levine [...]

The Orphaned Worlds Cover Art: Steve Stone Does It Again!

My first look at the cover for The Orphaned Worlds (Humanitys Fire Vol 2), as depicted by the most excellent Steve Stone. Just…wow.

Republicans? Aaah, Souls!

Seems that the man hired by Obama as his White House advisor on green jobs and economy has resigned. Van Jones, co-founder of Colour For Change, has suffered relentlessly rabid attacks from the drooling right, most saliently at the behest of Glenn Beck, weepy-eyed presenter on Fox cable channel in the States. Colour Of Change [...]