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Gollancz Titles on the Locus Recommended Reading List

Gollancz Team: - February 13th, 2012
Alastair Reynolds, Fantasy, Joe Abercrombie, Patrick Rothfuss, Paul McAuley, Rae Carson, Richard Morgan, Robert V.S. Redick, Science Fiction, Stephen Baxter, Young Adult

Every year, Locus, the magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field, compiles a Recommended Reading List to help readers sort through the vast number of novels, collections, anthologies, stories, etc that are published each year. They’ve just released 2011’s list, which is as good a roadmap through last year’s territory as you’re going to find, and contains a number of items of Gollanczish goodness:

SF Novels
The Islanders by … More

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How I wrote In The Mouth Of The Whale- Paul McAuley

Gollancz Team: - January 26th, 2012
Author Post, Paul McAuley, Science Fiction

in the mouth of the whale

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

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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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