…ttany (sea, cycling and sand… There was sun, but the temperature was still pretty cool. Pleasant, but I didn’t really feel like taking off my jacket in the evening). Just learnt that Charles N. Brown, publisher, editor and co-founder of Locus passed away. I had the luck to meet him once at the Writers of the Future workshop, and to sit at his table, where he regaled us with anecdotes and advice. He was in many ways a towering man, and he will be m…
…ic that seeks to bind all to its will. It’s on the following best-of-2017 lists: Locus Recommended Reading List Amazon Tor.com Reviewers’ Choice Barnes and Noble Sci Fi & Fantasy blog The Guardian (Adam Roberts) The Verge (Andrew Liptak, Recommended Book) Fantasy-Faction SciFiNow: 35 Books you should have read in 2017 (Jonathan Hatfull) Fantasy Cafe Where to Buy Hardback (US) Penguin Random House US indie stores Amazon US Barnes and Noble The Book…
…A Xuya universe story. Where to Buy Space and Time Buy Now…
…to Buy Hardback (US) Penguin Random House Amazon US Barnes and Noble US Indie Stores The Book Depository Trade Ppb (UK) Amazon UK Foyle’s Waterstones Blackwell’s WH Smith The Book Depository Ebook/Audio Amazon US (Kindle) Amazon UK (Kindle) Kobo Blackstone Audio (US audiobook) Orion Books (UK &RoW audiobook) Trade Ppb (US) Amazon US US indie stores The Book Depository Mass Market Ppb (UK) Amazon UK Foyle’s Waterstones Blackwell’s WH Smith The Boo…
…both write terrific fiction). In non-selfish self-promoting links, I’ve found a new webcomic to get addicted to: Freakangels by Warren Ellis and Paul Dufield. Set in a post-Apocalyptic, flooded London, this focuses around the Freakangels, a group of people cursed with strange powers. It soon becomes clear that it’s their combined powers that ended the world, and that they’re trying to make amends for it by making Whitechapel into a haven of peace…
…the love of God please, let’s not do counter-slates). I will, as usual, recommend stuff as the year goes on, and make a blog post closer to the deadline with a recap of what I loved. I encourage you to do the same. PS: Worldcon was lovely! Except 9 hours of time difference, which turns out to be quite difficult to catch up on… PPS: I debated over whether to leave the comments open. I reserve the right to borrow Scalzi’s Mallet of Loving Correctio…
…l computers (since I own three, and on two different OS, this is rather welcome). Free, available for PC, Mac and Linux. (for actual writing, I use Word, which I can get on any platform–including computers that aren’t mine. Plus, I tend to receive edits in Word’s Tracking Changes format, so it makes my life easier. I wish Word would stop randomly crashing on huge files, but I guess you can’t have everything) Any other cool software I should be awa…
…ntact, I’d likely be side-eyeing them anyway). Note that a slate isn’t a recommendations list. Those are fine, I’m very flattered and grateful to be on them (and obviously even more flattered to be on people’s ballots!). In fact, this year I’ve already started taking notes one eligible stuff I read, so that I can make sure to post my usual awards recommendation post at the beginning of the year. But slates are not fine (in case you’re wondering: b…
…o help season (crab fritters, lardons), and using Grace Young’s method of dumping the rice water in it and soaking for 20 minutes to clean it (mostly because it does save a bit of water 🙂 ). Really nice to have browned chicken and steaks again, I have to say. Maillard reactions in a non stick pan just don’t really happen… Also have been trying to update my knife-wielding skills on Craftsy. I think I’ve got the low cut (for small veggies) worked ou…
…ation, an engineer obsessed with the past works on a machine that will send her thirty years back, at the height of the Citadel’s power. But the Citadel’s disappearance still extends chains of grief and regrets all the way into the fraught atmosphere of the Imperial Court; and this casual summoning of the past might have world-shattering consequences… From the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed On a Red Station, Drifting comes a new…
