Yesterday was my heavy panel day, in that I was on one with ianmcdonald, Ian McLeod and James Lovegrove at 10 am on "The Breakup of Britain", and then moderating another with a more European theme at 11 with Harry Turtledove, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Keith Brooke and Patrick Gyger. The first one was fairly full; the second, in a much bigger hall with over 200 ( Read more... )

10) The Light Ages, by Ian R. MacLeod

Hmmm. On the one hand, this is the book that China Miéville's Iron Council should have been. Complex, interesting characters, a sparsely sketched yet believable social set-up, just the corner of the irrational (the mysterious "aether", discovered in 1678, and the cornerstone of England's prosperity, but which ( Read more... )