Archive for the ‘Author Post’ Category
Dabbling with Destiny
Gollancz Team: Marcus - February 21st, 2012
Author Post, Fantasy, Michael J. Ward
I’ve often been asked if I could imagine DestinyQuest as a computer game; after all, video games were the main inspiration for my gamebook series. I usually answer with a most affirmative nod and then proceed to reel off a shopping list of all the ‘cool things’ I’d love to see amalgamated into a game franchise – visceral combat, tons of loot, flexible character-building, epic dungeon crawls, a free-roaming world… Yes, I … More
Tags: DestinyQuest, game review, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Mike Ward
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Kit Berry 60 Second Interview
Gollancz Team: Gillian - February 8th, 2012
Author Post, Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, Interview
In celebration of the David Gemmell Award long-lists being published, Gollancz is thrilled to be running a series of interviews-in-sixty-seconds with as many long-listed authors as we can get our hands on. Today we’re talking to Kit Berry, the critically acclaimed author of the Stonewylde series which began with a self-contained trilogy (Magus of Stonewylde, Moondance at Stonewylde and Solstice at Stonewylde) and now continues … More
Tags: Dark Fantasy, David Gemmell Longlist, Fantasy, Green Fantasy, Interview, Kit Berry, Magus of Stonewylde, Moondance of Stonewylde, Shadows at Stonewylde, Solstice at Stonewylde, Stonewylde Series
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How I wrote In The Mouth Of The Whale- Paul McAuley
Gollancz Team: Simon - January 26th, 2012
Author Post, Paul McAuley, Science Fiction
In The Mouth of the Whale, like most of my novels, began with an image. In this case a gigantic cylindrical construct hung in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet, with spidery drones working on some machine attached to its skin, and trains rushing up and down a long spine or tail that dropped away into an ocean of clouds.
This mind’s eye picture had grown out of thinking about how to … More
Tags: Gardens in the Sun, How I wrote piece, In the Mouth of the Whale, Paul McAuley, Science Fiction, SF, The Quiet War
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Everything Unscrews
Gollancz Team: Marcus - January 6th, 2012
Author Post, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Stan Nicholls
It’s obvious, isn’t it? Literature reflects events in the real world, and is influenced by them. Except for science fiction and fantasy, which have nothing to tell us about the human condition or the state of our culture.
That’s the judgement of people who never read the stuff; the supercilious commentators, and the self-appointed arbiters of the dying Fourth Estate. Whereas those who do read and write in these genres know they are among the best interpreters, and … More
Tags: Author Post, Bad Blood, Douglas Adams, Fantasy, Frankenstein, Frederik Pohl, Inferno, Jekyll & Hyde, Kurt Vonnegut, Orcs, Science Fiction, Stan Nicholls, Terry Pratchett, The Time Machine
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