Browsing All posts tagged under »neil gaiman«

Americaland

February 4, 2010

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At Clarion, I was nailed more than once for drawing on America as a setting and source for my writing. Given that I’m British, and my stories were being critiqued by a group of very intelligent and culturally aware Americans from across that vast continent, I really had no defence. After one critique Neil talked… [Read more…]

Story McNuggets

November 19, 2009

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Today I observed a pattern in my writing. I have been working on a story that goes by the working title of Clocks for some months now. It is one of those stories that emerges by accumulation. Every so often I add another paragraph, or a sentence, or even just a word. It is now… [Read more…]

Best SF of the Noughties

November 17, 2009

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Sarah Crown over at The Guardian book blog today asks readers for their top books of the noughties. Unsurprisingly my picks are quite speculative in nature, and there are so many that I eventually gave up trying to list them all. It was also complicated by the fact that many of my favourite books read… [Read more…]

The myth-making genius of Neil Gaiman

August 10, 2009

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Neil Gaiman has just won this year’s Hugo award for best novel, for The Graveyard Book – and I can’t be the only one who isn’t surprised by the news. I knew Gaiman was more than just a great writer when I read the comic mini-series Death: The High Cost of Living in 1993. I’d… [Read more…]

A WorldCon of our own

August 6, 2009

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The World Science Fiction convention is well underway in Montreal by now. Up until a few weeks ago I was sure I would be attending, but when it came down to it I just could not justify it for this year. I’m doubly sad as many Clarion friends are there and I would love to… [Read more…]

Neil vs. Colbert

March 18, 2009

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The leader of my tribe on the Colbert Report. I’m so happy.