Very happy to be on board with this brilliant, and timely, anthology with my story The Family Football.
StoryBundle: Best of British SF & Fantasy
Roll up, roll up… Here’s a chance to bag some great reads and also support the best of British SF and Fantasy, not to mention its writers. Curated by Lavie Tidhar, this is a fantastic bundle of brilliant and award-winning literature, including my own novel Wake Up and Dream…
Made to Order ready to pre-order
This excellent new collection which commemorates the 100th anniversary of Karel Čapek coining the word “Robot” and is now available for pre-order includes my own story Sin Eater, which is set in the Vatican at the End of Days…
Lamagica in Dark Fantasy 3
Proud to say I’m in this collection, along with some other great writers. My story is called Lamagica, and is a substantial one at 13,000 words. It’s set in Mexico of the alternate world of my novels The Light Ages and The House of Storms.
https://subterraneanpress.com/tales-of-dark-fantasy-3
Dublin Worldcon
Very much looking forward to attending Dublin Worldcon
As things stand, these are my programmed events…
Kaffeeklatsch
17 Aug 2019, Saturday 10:00 – 10:50, Level 3 Foyer
Panel: What I learned along the way
17 Aug 2019, Saturday 15:00 – 15:50, Wicklow Room-3
Writing is a many wondrous thing filled with highs and lows, but those lows can be really tough to navigate either after a great success or after a lack of success. Rejection is something every writer has to face, but how do writers keep writing in the face of failure? What lessons have they learned along the way? Our panellists share the ups and downs of a writing life.
Ian R MacLeod (moderator), Aliette de Bodard, Nina Allan, Karl Schroeder (Tor Books), George Sandison (Titan Books)
Panel: The lack of technological progress in fantasy
18 Aug 2019, Sunday 11:00 – 11:50, ECOCEM Room
From the cotton gin to the printing press, technology doesn’t seem to advance in many fantasy worlds – despite hundreds of years of history in which an industrial revolution could happen. Why doesn’t it? Does magic replace the need for technology? What about the growth of magic-powered technology within a fantasy world? What does it take to get a little scientific progress?
Renee Sieber (McGill University) (moderator), Juliet E McKenna, J.S. Meresmaa, Ian R MacLeod
Autographs
19 Aug 2019, Monday 11:00 – 11:50, Level 4 Foyer (CCD)
Eric Choi, Ian R MacLeod, Jeanine Tullos Hennig, Stephen Jones
Reading (probably from something new…)
19 Aug 2019, Monday 13:00 – 13:50, Liffey Room-3
Everywhere & Nowhere out now
Pleased to say that my two volume “greatest hits” e-book collection, Everywhere & Nowhere is out now. Featuring fresh introductions and afterwords by yours truly and a generous selection of my best novellas and short stories going back over three decades. The links and tables of contents are here…
EVERYWHERE:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07SKC16XM/
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ebook/everywhere-3
Google: https://play.google.com/…/books/d…/Ian_R_MacLeod_Everywhere…
Apple: http://books.apple.com/gb/book/id1466119778
NOWHERE:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07SG79H4Y/
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ebook/nowhere-13
Google: https://play.google.com/…/bo…/details/Ian_R_MacLeod_Nowhere…
Apple: http://books.apple.com/gb/book/id1466126590
EVERYWHERE: VOLUME I OF THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES AND NOVELLAS OF IAN R MACLEOD
CONTENTS:
Grownups
Breathmoss
New Light on the Drake Equation
The Master Miller’s Tale
Papa
Frost on Glass
Ephemera
NOWHERE: VOLUME 2 OF THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES AND NOVELLAS OF IAN R MACLEOD
CONTENTS:
The Chop Girl
The Perfect Stranger
Hector Douglas Makes a Sale
Isabel of the Fall
Snodgrass
Nevermore
Tirkiluk
The Visitor from Taured
Nina-With-The-Sky-In-Her-Hair
Starship Day
Second Journey of the Magus
Re-Crossing the Styx
On The Sighting of Other Islands
Past Magic
The Crane Method
The Wisdom of the Group
Well-Loved
The Discovered Country
The Memory Artist
Pleased to say that my new novelette The Memory Artist, which is set in the same universe of the Ten Thousand and One Worlds as several other stories, is out now in Asimov’s.
Alternate Peace now available
Alternate Peace, the new and very different alternate history anthology edited by Steven H Silver & Joshua B. Palmatier from Zombies Need Brains featuring my own story Selkie, along with stories from Harry Turtledove, Juliet E. McKenna and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, among others, is now available for pre-order. Please note, I’ve put the UK Amazon link in first, and the US second. If they don’t work from where you are, feel free to Google!
Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/alternate-peace-juliet-e-mckenna/1131626276?ean=2940161486603
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/alternate-peace
Trade paperback and Kickstarter paperback: https://squareup.com/market/zombies-need-brains-llc
Nowhere (and Everywhere)
This is the front cover of Volume 2 of my “greatest hits” e-book collection, Nowhere (which follows on from Everywhere). I’m really pleased with this – thanks again to Dirk Berger (and a dash of Rene Magritte) for doing a brilliant job. More about the contents and availablity to follow.
Alternate Peace
Here’s the cover art for the upcoming collection Alternate Peace featuring my new story Selkie, which is set in Scapa Flow in the Orkneys in 1914, along with some fine work from the likes of Howard Waldrop, Harry Turtledove and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Check out more at: http://www.zombiesneedbrains.com/about.html
