Archive for Angry Robot Media
Angry Robot TV launches!
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Ok, it’s not so much a TV channel as a collection of our multimedia links – videos, first chapter recordings, interviews, podcasts, etc.
So, pull up a chair, crack open a tub of your favourite ice-cream, and enjoy…
Choose your channel from the drop-down list under the new AR TV link in the main menu bar, above.
Lauren’s interview at the BSFA (podcast)
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If you missed the (extremely well-attended) British Science Fiction Association get-together last week, with special guest Lauren Beukes, you can listen to it here.
This month, the special guest is Dan Abnett – well worth attending (August 25th, London). I’ll be interviewing Dan about his writing career – his comics, his novels, his screenwriting. And Dan is always worth listening to.
Venue details here. It’s free, and you don’t have to be a member!
Zoo City Teaser Trailer
Posted by: | CommentsShe’s a talented lady, that Lauren Beukes. Not only is Zoo City even better than her debut, Moxyland, but she’s managed a team of talented individuals to create an atmospheric mood trailer for the book.
Now if only you didn’t have to wait until September to read it…*
*Check back tomorrow for some pretty awesome news about this…
Your start-of-the-week catch-up
Posted by: | CommentsWe’re currently smack-bang in the idle of London Book Fair, and though flights in and out of the UK are rarer than a terrifying vampire, it sems to have kicked off well.
In weblnd, of course, things are running quite nicely.
If you’re a Twitter fan, and follow William Gibson (@greatdismal) you may well have seen him tweet about Lauren Beukes’ Moxyland:
“Moxyland” does lots of things, masterfully, that lots of sf never even guesses that it *could* be doing.
Praise doesn’t get much better than that!
Being dead is clearly no barrier to having your own website. If you’re a fan of Tim Waggoner’s wonderful Matt Richter series (beginning with Nekropolis), head on over to the new, official site: www.nekropoliscity.com – book trailer, blog (from Matt’s point of view) and more…
Spellmaking has a review of Mike Shevdon’s urban fantasy, Sixty-One Nails:
I was hooked and I’m very much looking forward to reading the next volume in the sequence when it appears. If you’re a fan of UF – or even if you’re not – I’d recommend this book.
Meanwhile, not content with writing some of the bloodiest – and most thrilling – fantasy sequences currently being published, Andy Remic has turned his talents once again to video. Here’s his latest offering: a taste of what’s to come with Soul Stealers, the sequel to his epic fantasy debut, Kell’s Legend. Click on the image to launch.
Aliette de Bodard’s Servant of the Underworld continues to impress. At Speculative Book Review we learn:
From page one I was drawn into Acatl’s world… a remarkable historically-based fantasy, using the myths and legends of the Aztec people as a background to a twisting murder mystery.
Women in Horror and Remic in Fur
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February was Women in Horror Month, and our very own Kaaron Warren was one of those interviewed over at eneit Press:
EP: You’ve said previously that the human form of dark fiction is your favourite. What is it about this that fascinates you?
KW: I’ve never really been able to answer this question. My fascination is almost instinctive, it really is. I prefer a bad ending in a story to a happy one, perhaps because there is more surprise that way.
I’ve spoken before about a story which resonated with me when I was a child, about a young man murdering his sister. I can still remember the way it was described; her skull cracked open. These are the stories I remember and want to write about.
And for those of you (and there are many) looking forward to Andy Remic’s next installment in the Clockwork Vampire Chronicles, we’ll have a promotional video to show you very soon, but for now, enjoy this teaser poster for Soul Stealers.
We wish you a Remic Christmas…
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We’ve just received this photo of Andy Remic, all Christmasified, and peering out from behind his huge axe. Well, with a weapon that size, we just had to share it!
Click on the photo for a bigger version.
Lavie Tidhar has a new website & blog
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That fine fellow and friend to Robots, Lavie Tidhar, has a new website and blog. At least some of this surge of activity is because of his upcoming Angry Robot novel. The Bookman, that fabulous steampunky mix of bombs, books and … um… giant lizards on the throne of Great Britain, is due from us in January 2010.
Check out his site for a few more clues as to the delights in store for you all in that volume, plus first news that book 2 in the series will be called Camera Obscura (love it!). And we can match that revelation with the news that that second volume will be in your stores November 2010. Yup, two chunky slabs of steampunk goodness in one year. We are so good to go.
Interviews with some Angry Robot stars
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Andy Remic at the Angry Robot launch event
On Saturday we held our official UK launch at the Forbidden Planet Megastore in London. Marc Gascoigne and myself were joined by a bunch important people (Angry Robot authors), a bunch of other important people (Liz and Mark from My Favourite Books - watch out for an exclusive Angry Robot competition on their site, soon), a whole host of Angry Robot friends and supporters, and (of course) the book-buying public!
It was the first time I had been to this branch of Forbidden Planet (I live oop north) and I am so glad I didn’t bring all my credit cards with me! What a fantastic selection of graphic novels and books! I could have spend thousands, there. Well, if I had thousands…
So, a huge thanks to everyone listed above who attended, and an even bigger thanks to Nick from loudmouthman.com who not only recorded the event, and conducted a series of interviews with some of those present, but who also took the time and effort to craft it into a smart little video, which is presented below.
Move over, Spielberg!
Posted by: | CommentsAuthor, lover, bon viveur – Andy Remic is a man of many, many talents!
As well as the author of the violent epic, Kell’s Legend, Rem has turned his hand to film-making.
In this first clip, Rem reads from his latest book:
and in this second, he’s the camera-chap – he’s not a limelight-seeker, you see. It’s a clip from a panel at the recent FantasyCon 2009, during which some of the world’s finest minds discuss the legend of David Gemmell.
While we’re on a Remic post, here’s a snippet from the latest review of Kells Legend from those fine people over at Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review (when I say “fine people”, I do, of course, mean Graeme).
‘Kell’s Legend’ is a roller coaster ride of a book that grabbed me right from the first page and tore off at a rate of knots like I hadn’t seen in a long time. The only chance anyone gets to take a breather is when Kell removes his axe from a corpse that hasn’t had the time to realise that it’s dead! Before you’ve had a chance to take a proper breath, it’s back into the fray again… Here is a man who has become a hero yet knows full well that he has done nothing to deserve such accolades. In fact, he has done entirely the opposite and is ready to commit the worst atrocities to protect what he loves. Life has eaten all the best bits of this man and left nothing but bitterness behind…
Eight out of Ten
Genreville TV premieres with an interview with Kaaron Warren
Posted by: | CommentsPublishers Weekly recently relaunched Genreville – their excellent blog centred on all things genre. Today they launch Genreville TV – and their first item is an interview with Angry Robot debut novelist, Kaaron Warren.
I talk a little bit—a lot about the outsiders, in my fiction, what kinds of people sit within the worlds that I’m creating and talking about and trying to make that world seem very real and natural, rather than—I don’t usually write as an outsider, I usually write as an insider, but within that world I’m often talking about the person who’s separate, and feels separate, for various different reasons. I’m just fascinated by the way some people are isolated and other people aren’t, and what sort of behaviors that we do separate us from others.
Read the rest of the interview here, or just click on the Play button, below.
