…ronments. Darren Nash moderates Chris Beckett, Aliette de Bodard, Simon Morden and Gaie Sebold. Sunday, 19:00, Main, “BSFA Awards/Loncon 3 update” Award Administrator Donna Scott and Master of Ceremonies Paul Cornell, assisted by our Guests of Honour, present the BSFA Awards for 2012. They then hand over to the LonCon 3 team for a presentation and update on next year’s UK Worldcon. (I’ll be presenting the James White Award at the beginning of the…

…lipping them once during cooking. This proved effective but time-consuming: the basket could only take 6 or so rolls, and 20 minutes is a long time when you’re already hungry. We then switched to an intermediate method: cook the rolls in a 200°C-oven for 20 minutes, until they just start to turn golden. Then dump them 6 by 6 in the Airfryer basket, and cook them at 200°C for 4 minutes on each side. Much, much more effective. The final result doesn…

…he West, I have detected a tendency to dismiss or minimize the effects of history on the present, as if history can be made irrelevant by a simple act of individual will. Such views, it seems to me, are signs of a perspective colored by the very privileges conferred on those who have been dealt a lucky hand by history. -Sophia McDougall on Twenty-One tips to make your book better for new writers -Glen Mehn reviews On a Red Station, Drifting this n…

…ll stood the House of Lazarus. And, if she could feel it, so could every other Fallen in the vicinity; and perhaps their pet mages, too, if they had the right artefacts or were pumped-up on dust. Needless to say, Selene did not approve of dust. “We don’t have much time,” she told Xavier. “He’s in trouble.”…

…s with young children 🙁 ). But wow. (yes, still in shock, why do you ask) (complete list of nominees below)   Best Novel (1113 nominating ballots cast) 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) Blackout, Mira Grant (Orbit) Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas, John Scalzi (Tor) Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW) Best Novella (587 nominating ballots cast) After the Fall, Before the Fal…

…Illustration (click to zoom)   Isn’t it pretty? Art courtesy of Richard Wagner (and many thanks to Andy Cox as always). “The Angel at the Heart of the Rain”, my sort-of-magical-realism piece about war and refugees, will be out in the May issue of Interzone….

…general trends rather than specifics; I don’t want to do cultural existensialism, but equally cultural specifities shouldn’t be casually swept under the rug under cover of “we’re all the same deep down”….

…all about, Red Station is written with a delicate intensity. It’s not an easy read, because the novella doesn’t provide us with a set of sympathetic characters that we can cheer on. Rather, through some gorgeous writing and the complexity of the world building, each character earns our respect. And that makes the ending all the more powerful. –MJ Starling on On a Red Station, Drifting (…) a great, harsh, messy, human book that deserves every vote…

…ar future and I can fudge quite a bit as the tech isn’t the main point): a combat drone incapacitates its targets through some kind of electromagnetic frequency that burns away specific areas of the brain. I need my targets to be upright and more or less mobile by the end, which is why I don’t want to fry away the entire brain/the body. Target can be as stationary as needed; drone can be assumed to have all kinds of nifty equipments that will enab…

For everyone who missed it yesterday on twitter, I can confirm there will be an ebook of On a Red Station, Drifting, for sale on amazon (and on other platforms if I work out the principles of the thing. Have only ever done Kindle for Scattered Among Strange Worlds). The e-edition should have a different cover than the paper book, and Immersion Press will continue to sell that as a limited edition hardback (just as a reminder, there were only 200…