They waited a full day and night for Ringil Eskiath to show. Everyone was briefed, everyone knew their place. The locals hid in their homes, the League privateers held ambush positions down at the harbour and all along the edges of the bay. Lookouts took the high ground at either end, and the watchtower at [...]
Richard Morgan's News and Views:
• Raise a Glass
In the summer of 1987, a freshly minted graduate, I was down in London paying off student debt – a mercifully lightweight business back in those halcyon days of free university education and even maintenance grants for those who’d committed the grave neo-liberal sin of being born to parents of limited means. That said, money [...]
In the summer of 1987, a freshly minted graduate, I was down in London paying off student debt – a mercifully lightweight business back in those halcyon days of free university education and even maintenance grants for those who’d committed the grave neo-liberal sin of being born to parents of limited means. That said, money [...]
• Grim, Dark and Straw
So it seems I’m writing GRIMDARK!!! Who knew? Well, certainly not me. There I was thinking, I’d just transferred my whole future noir schtick over the fence from SF into a fantasy landscape – a bundle of goods that Colin Greenland once nailed (rather eloquently, I thought) in this review of Broken Angels here as the [...]
So it seems I’m writing GRIMDARK!!! Who knew? Well, certainly not me. There I was thinking, I’d just transferred my whole future noir schtick over the fence from SF into a fantasy landscape – a bundle of goods that Colin Greenland once nailed (rather eloquently, I thought) in this review of Broken Angels here as the [...]
• Imperialism Redux, Cut-Off and Sunday Morning Coming Down
For those who were asking, PicoCon now have a payment portal up for those wanting to buy tickets – it’s live on the Con website here. You’ll see from the timetable they’ve posted that I’m giving my Guest of Honour address on Sunday morning at 10.30 – something which doesn’t scare me as much as [...]
For those who were asking, PicoCon now have a payment portal up for those wanting to buy tickets – it’s live on the Con website here. You’ll see from the timetable they’ve posted that I’m giving my Guest of Honour address on Sunday morning at 10.30 – something which doesn’t scare me as much as [...]
• Workspace Wanted
So there’s this……. That’s my office floor you’re looking at, and as you can see, things are getting a bit out of hand. Of course, it doesn’t help that areas previously designated for storage of my personal shit have now been annexed for storage of personal shit belonging to my son instead – and as anyone [...]
So there’s this……. That’s my office floor you’re looking at, and as you can see, things are getting a bit out of hand. Of course, it doesn’t help that areas previously designated for storage of my personal shit have now been annexed for storage of personal shit belonging to my son instead – and as anyone [...]
• Tidings of Comfort and Joy
The house Tand’s men took her to was on the upper fringes of the town, just before Ornley thinned out into a scattering of isolated crofts. It was high ground, and there would have been a great view back down the slope of the bay to the harbour, if the air below hadn’t been quite [...]
The house Tand’s men took her to was on the upper fringes of the town, just before Ornley thinned out into a scattering of isolated crofts. It was high ground, and there would have been a great view back down the slope of the bay to the harbour, if the air below hadn’t been quite [...]
• End Notes
Couple of late-breaking delights to round out the year. The Cold Commands makes NPR’s best SF/F of the Year list, and thus finds itself in some very august company indeed. Kind words from Annalee Newitz of Io9 fame. (Many thanks to Linda Palapala and Milton Soong for the heads-up). And the BSFA have a late [...]
Couple of late-breaking delights to round out the year. The Cold Commands makes NPR’s best SF/F of the Year list, and thus finds itself in some very august company indeed. Kind words from Annalee Newitz of Io9 fame. (Many thanks to Linda Palapala and Milton Soong for the heads-up). And the BSFA have a late [...]
• The Curious Case of the Totally Oblivious Author
Wow, was I late to this particular party. The Steel Remains won the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for best novel – in 2010! How the hell did I miss this? I vaguely remember my US publicist mentioning way back at the beginning of 2009 that it might be worth putting Steel up for the Spectrum, but [...]
Wow, was I late to this particular party. The Steel Remains won the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for best novel – in 2010! How the hell did I miss this? I vaguely remember my US publicist mentioning way back at the beginning of 2009 that it might be worth putting Steel up for the Spectrum, but [...]
• Something Beginning with P
So there you go – your basic alien monster movie. You’ve got your dodgily-imagined alien planet with not very convincing unities of time and place, shot on location in some inhospitable corner of the globe in a bid to offer some naturalistic weirdness. You’ve got your conveniently breathable air. Your stock characters, your fairly predictable narrative [...]
So there you go – your basic alien monster movie. You’ve got your dodgily-imagined alien planet with not very convincing unities of time and place, shot on location in some inhospitable corner of the globe in a bid to offer some naturalistic weirdness. You’ve got your conveniently breathable air. Your stock characters, your fairly predictable narrative [...]
• Rampant Imperialism
A date for your diaries if you live in or within reasonable striking distance of London. This coming February 16th and 17th, I’ll be Guest of Honour at Imperial College’s PicoCon. As you’ll see from this link, I am not alone in this – fellow GoHs are: Peter F. Hamilton - distinguished doyen of British SF [...]
A date for your diaries if you live in or within reasonable striking distance of London. This coming February 16th and 17th, I’ll be Guest of Honour at Imperial College’s PicoCon. As you’ll see from this link, I am not alone in this – fellow GoHs are: Peter F. Hamilton - distinguished doyen of British SF [...]