Petty Snarls

Argh. It's one of those weeks, I can tell.
( Father ok after all. Probably. )

( Gulf call-up bloody inconvenient )

( Drugs are my friends )

More, more cheerfully, in another post.

Getting a Life, part #474a

I had fun at the Borders SF night last night - guests Ellen Datlow and Stephen Baxter - with many of the usual suspects. sbisson, marypcb: who is going to kick off the Campaign for Real SF, a.k.a. Lost Worlds? First 'mainstream' novel to be reclaimed: Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons. (Personal aircraft, videophones and the Anglo-Nicaraguan War of 1947). That nice Mr Baxter (Son of God and Bastard Offspring* of Arthur C Clarke) looked quite keen on being a figurehead after you mentioned photo opportunities with Kate Beckinsale ...

Am still debating Mr Baxter's assertion that multiple point-of-view is a 19th-century story-telling device.

Guest for March is very probably Cherith Baldry, who some of you will know - her new novel The Reliquary Ring (SF, adult) is out 21st February so go and buy it. It really is very good!

*That's what 'natural heir' traditionally means, isn't it? In which case it must be true. It's on the front of his latest book, Evolution

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( Music and Magic: Howard Shore at the South Bank, Sunday 9th February )