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What We’re Watching Wednesday: Utopia

Gollancz Team: - January 30th, 2013
Reviews, TV shows

This January has seen Channel 4 up their game with some great new shows to fill those hour long slots left empty by Fresh Meat and Homeland. Utopia is absolutely no exception, and is what we’ve been yearning for – the nation was crying out for a modern, innovative and thought-provoking British drama with, let’s face it, a superb marketing campaign, some hot young tings, and absolutely no period costumes involved.

I’m reluctant to reveal too much of the plot, … More

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Friday Reads: Joe Abercrombie’s RED COUNTRY is bloody . . . (spoiler free review)

Gollancz Team: - September 7th, 2012
Fantasy, Friday Reads, Joe Abercrombie, Reviews

red country jacket

I remember getting an email from my colleague Simon Spanton some years ago. It was a simple message, ‘You’ll like this.’ Attached to the email was a file with the first few chapters of a book he wanted to buy for Gollancz called The Blade Itself. I opened the attachment and started to read.

He wasn’t wrong; the combination of black humour, violence and dental torture appealed to me very much. I wanted to read more and I’m happy … More

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Den Patrick on Hookers, Victims and Doormats…

Gollancz Team: - July 5th, 2012
Author Post, Reviews

So you may have read that we’ve signed up Den Patrick to write three books for Gollancz. This seems the ideal opportunity, therefore, to give you a taster of Den’s writing. Here he is, writing not about Elves, Dwarves and Orcs but about female characters in computer games and more specifically in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Does the games industry need to move on in its portrayal of women? No surprises on his conclusion I think.

Writing about gender in video … More

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Elantris – it’s where the magic begins . . .

Gollancz Team: - January 10th, 2012
Brandon Sanderson, Editorial Posts, Fantasy, Reviews

elantris

I’m not the editor responsible for bringing Brandon Sanderson to Gollancz. Simon Spanton, Deputy Publishing Director of Gollancz and the person most frequently behind @Gollancz (and entirely behind @SimonGuy64) on twitter, is. Of course the team is involved in acquisition decisions – but that doesn’t mean that we all always have the time to read projects in their entirety before agreeing. And, to be honest, if Simon says something is good, it’s good.

So it wasn’t until this … More

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Paul McAuley reviews Hugo

Gollancz Team: - November 29th, 2011
Author Post, Film Reviews, Reviews

The conjunction of ‘family friendly’ and ’3 D’ is not auspicious, even if the film in question is directed by Martin Scorsese. But from the first shot, a kind of reversal of the famous flying scene in Peter Pan, with the viewpoint swooping over the crowded and crooked roofs of snowy, early 1930s Paris, ducking under the eaves of the arched canopy of a railway terminus, and closing in on the eye of a boy peering through a chink in … More

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