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I got an interesting listener email about old science fiction. Here’s an excerpt: Listening to your previous review of Jules Verne’s novel I remembered that as a kid I used to get his books from the library all the time, multiple times. Today however, I hesitate to read anything this old – for the only [...]
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I released my first completed novel, “Minding Tomorrow”, for free a few months ago, and so far the reception has been really good. I’ve had loads of great emails from people telling me they’ve enjoyed it, a podcast review by Chris from the M-Brane SF blog, and even a few donations via the PayPal tip [...]
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I’ve now been on holiday for about a month. I’m having a fantastic time. However, I do miss home, mainly for the juggling studio and the fact I live in Berlin. Living in a Fiat Ducato van is fun, but Pola and I can’t exactly host breakfast parties for 37 people, as we did three [...]
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After a bit of a break while I worked on my own novel, I just put out a new Science Fiction Book Review Podcast episode, where I pretty much list all the things I hated about The Fall of Hyperion. Not my normal format! It’s a real pity I hated the book, and stopped reading [...]
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Tonight I finished a long term project: an idea for a novel kicking around in my head for years, many aborted attempts to get words on the page, finally completing a first draft last year, lots of editing, and lots of feedback from test readers over six months… Now my first novel, the newly named [...]
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On Wednesday I got a call from my agent about a last minute gig. I said I’d do it. The gig was confirmed at 5pm Thursday, and I was on the plane by 7:40pm. Today, Friday, I find myself in the delightful city of Tallinn, Estonia! Here’s the map of the trip (from Sosauce.com): As [...]
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I was going to post about this ages ago, but kept doing other things. Today I decided I wouldn’t do any other writing until I knocked out another 2000 words on my current novel… that’s why I’m posting this at 3am after much keyboard-tapping, food-eating, with-Pola-chatting, Banksy-book-reading and ping-pong-playing. Last night I did a live [...]
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SFBRP Live Show tonight! Begins in about 3.5 hours. That makes it: 11pm my time (Central European Summer time) 10pm British Summer Time 5pm Eastern Daylight Time 2pm Pacific Daylight Time The book I’ll be reviewing is Crystal Rain by Tobias S Buckell. Just go to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lukeburrage, hang out and enjoy the ride. For some [...]
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Now I have something like 6 days at sea. That means plenty of time for reading, writing, eating, swimming, juggling and whatever else I can find to do. Reading: The Accidental Time Machine – Joe Haldeman. I just found this in the library, and it looks quite fun. Crystal Rain – Tobias S Buckell. I [...]
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Normally, when I travel for work, I get my flight details a week or so in advanced. This time I got them a full 14 hours in advance. The waiting was a bit stressful, but thankfully I got what I needed. On Friday I flew from Berlin to JFK, then got on a much smaller [...]
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