No sooner have I finished revamping the blog than this image pops up on the Twitter feed of 40k Books. It's the finished front cover artwork for The Wooden Baby, the first in a series of weird detective stories due to be published as ebooks throughout 2012. Just to remind you, the series is called … Continue reading More on The String City Mysteries
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Chicken Little by Cory Doctorow
In his new novella Chicken Little, Cory Doctorow riffs on themes that will be familiar to any reader of classic science fiction. Pohl and Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants is cited in the preface – as is Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels – but I was also reminded of the short fiction of Philip K Dick, where near-future … Continue reading Chicken Little by Cory Doctorow