Here’s a write up in the Cambridge Independent (one of my local papers), of an interview with me.
Category: Interviews etc
Radio 2 Book Club
I was pleased and honoured that America City was selected to be featured on Radio 2 Book Club, on Simon Mayo’s Drivetime show.
Recording of the interview is here.
Time for Cakes and Ale: Podcast Interview
Here’s a podcast interview with me, by ‘Time for Cakes and Ale’ run by Becks and Eeson. They describe their podcast as ‘an outlet for our ramblings on whatever geeky topics take our fancy’. I like a bit of rambling myself, and here they have indulged me at length. Thanks both.
New Zeroflash interview
A short interview here with Zeroflash, to mark the publication of America City.
Getting into Writing (Interview with Zeroflash)
Interview here, mainly on the process of writing and getting published. Thanks Zeroflash!
Interview with Annie Neugebauer
An interview with Annie Neugebauer on LitReactor here.
Living on the planet Zarg: Clarke interview
Interview here with Tom Hunter, of the Clarke Award.
How I write
My friend Tony Ballantyne has been asking writers to describe their writing process, posting the results on his website every month. Here is what I wrote for him.
If you haven’t encountered Tony’s work, I recommend it. He is one of the cleverest people I know, in fact quite possibly the cleverest. (I won’t embarass him by saying that, by the way: he doesn’t really do that kind of humility.) Annoyingly, apart from being a talented and productive writer, having a degree in maths, and being a deputy head of a secondary school, he also plays several musical instruments and is a member of a brass band. His novels are unlike anything I’ve ever encountered. However there is something about his particular vision, dark, witty, humane, and occasionally tinged with a rather scary version of Christian theology (the latter particularly apparent in Recursion), that occasionally reminds me of Philip K. Dick.
His latest novel is Dream Paris -full of strange Ballantynian angles on the French revolution and politics in general- but you’d probably do better to read Dream London first.
New interview
A new interview here with Science Book a Day, which is run by George Aranda in Melbourne, Australia. The interview is mainly about Dark Eden .
I, clawfoot
Here is a guest post I did for Sarah Chorn, who edits a column on SF signal called Special Needs in Strange Worlds. I am very grateful to Sarah for giving me an opportunity to discuss the people with disabilities who appear in Dark Eden and Mother of Eden (the batfaces, clawfeet and slowheads), as I don’t think anyone has specifically asked me about them before and they are absolutely central to the world of Eden.
In this post, I also reveal that I am in a way the original for the so-called clawfeet. Which, now I think about it, may partly explain my decision to make the clawfooted Jeff Redlantern very wise and absolutely irresistible to women.
