Tag: fantasy
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Fantasy Musician Martin Springett:
Ready to be RebornSome cool news arrived today from fellow musician Martin Springett. It seems that one of his early albums The Gardening Club is going to be re-released by Space Wreck Records in 2016. This is cause for celebration. Here’s the press release from Space Wreck: In 1984, UK-born Martin Springett—an accomplished musician and illustrator who had produced comics…
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Reading with Tom Monteleone:
A Night of Fantastic Fiction at KGBWe took Manhattan. This past Wednesday, my good friend Tom Monteleone and I performed for an enthusiastic crowd at New York’s KGB, the literary venue in the East Village that has become known as the best literary venue in the city. That’s us (left) plotting before the show, having a sit down in a scene that looks…
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This Week @ KGB: We’ll Take Manhattan
Trust me, you won’t want to miss this month’s installment of Fantastic Fiction at the KGB. The place has been named the best literary venue in New York City by New York Magazine, the Village Voice, and others. And since the 1990s, the Fantastic Fiction Series has been the premier showcase for live readings in the sf/f/h genre.…
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Researching a Novel:
Trekking the Rain ForestThe untouched or virgin rain forest was called primary jungle. Primary jungle was what most people thought of when they thought of rain forests: huge hardwood trees, mahogany and teak and ebony, and underneath a lower layer of ferns and palms, clinging to the ground. Primary jungle was dark and foreboding, but actually easy to…
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Researching a Novel: My Lost World
Rain forests, deserts, volcanic mountains, green-sand beaches. They’re all part of the alien landscape of a novel project that links and expands my novelettes “Daughters of Prime” and “The Others” (both of which originally appeared in F&SF). Since the alien setting will feature ever-more prominently in the book-length version, I figured it would be a good idea to experience such…