Paradise Lost + Katatonia + Engel, King Tuts, Glasgow 30/10/09

This Friday, m’self and Graeme ‘Festive’ Fleming are off to see Paradise Lost in the intimate surroundings of King Tuts Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow. Support band, to my utter delight, is Katatonia – they’re new CD, as previewed on their myspace page, is a luxuriant carnival of gothique gloom, and I hope they`ll be [...]

A Chung Kuo Update From The Desk Of Mr Wingrove

 (Hot off the wires, some timeous information from DW hisself…)
Mike – I’m off to Nantes for a convention, Utopiales, on Thursday, back Sunday. Ian McDonald and Steve Baxter are also guests – as is Norman Spinrad. What you can let people know is that the recasting of MARRIAGE OF THE LIVING DARK is progressing wonderfully. [...]

Newcon Press’ CONFLICTS Anthology, Including Story From Yr Humble Scribe

Yes, my short story, The Makers Mark, a Humanitys Fire story no less, will appear in the CONFLICTS anthology, edited by Ian Whates, and published by Newcon Press in time for its launch at Eastercon next year (to be held at the Heathrow Radisson Edwardian). For your edification, here is the anth’s running order:
Psi.Copath – Andy Remic                                        [...]

Pallas + Abel Ganz, The Ferry, Glasgow 9/10/09

So, to the Ferry, well-known Glasgow venue, being an actual former ferryboat converted and moored at the north bank of the Clyde, near the city centre. With a capacity of about 500, the Ferry is a popular, all year-round venue.I was there with me ol’ mucker (and ex-call centre groover) Graeme Fleming, and also chanced [...]

Keith Olbermann for President!

For those not in the know, Keith Olbermann is a news and political commentator on MSNBC channel in the States, with his own show, Countdown. Olbermann has in the past come out with some astonishing, straight-from-the-shoulder critiques of, first, the Bush administration and more recently the actions of the Obama administration. Well, about a day [...]

Postscripts Quarterly Bumper Double Edition – Including A Short Story From Yrs Truly

Yes, got this info from Pete Crowther at PS Publishing a while back and it kinda fell through the cracks. So belatedly here it is, the running order for the next double issue of Postscripts Quarterly, entitled Edison’s Frankenstein, which also contains a story from me:

POSTSCRIPTS #20 AND #21 (DOUBLE VOLUME), AUTUMN 2009/WINTER 2010

TITLE: EDISON’S [...]