Monthly Archives: April 2005

China Mieville’s latest novel is sitting on the Hugo ballot right now, and he’s had several good stories out in the last twelve months (most notably in a McSweeney’s anthology). It now looks like we’ll see his first short story collection, Looking for Jake in August. It’ll feature a comic strip, his wonderful novella “The … Continue reading »

Way back in January of 1998, when I was still living at Yosemite Ave in Oakland, I read and reviewed Sean Williams’ second novel The Resurrected Man for Locus. I liked it then, and I liked it now. Paul Di Filippo likes it too, and gives it a good review over at SciFi.com. The new … Continue reading »

It was a curious long weekend. As you all know, we’re being visited by Marianne’s mother, which is going very well. An unexpected side effect of her being here is that I’m getting a bit of time to get work done, largely because our car doesn’t fit three adults and two kids in car seats, … Continue reading »

I was going to suggest that everyone should go read John Clute’s really quite interesting review of Andreas Eschbach’s The Carpet Makers, and you still should. But…I’ve just read the latest post from Ken Macleod over at Early Days of a Better Nation, where he queries the accuracy of his own recollections about the history … Continue reading »

I was just reading Justine’s latest musing – she’s deep in a perfectly understandable reverie about the publication of Magic or Madness – and she mentions this book shop. We need one in Perth and, if it does turn out I’m in Manhattan in November, I am so going to go there. I’ve never been … Continue reading »