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jemck at 11:53am on 09/01/2009
jemck at 11:53am on 09/01/2009Today's proving a right mixture so far.
Good news. The Write Fantastic will be hosting an event at Borders, Oxford, 7.00pm on Saturday 4th April 2009, a panel discussion on reading and writing SF&F, as part of the Oxfringe Festival. Do come along and join in the Q&A!
Also, I shall be presenting my illustrated talk on Oxford's tradition of fantasy fiction, considering the city's influences on Lewis Carroll, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis and others, on Monday 6th April, at 7.00 pm at The Corner Club, Oxford.
Furthermore, on the plus side of the scales, I can now reveal The Sekrit Projekt. I am writing a Warhammer 40,000 short story for Black Library's forthcoming 'Fear the Alien' anthology.
This is pretty much down to my elder son who is a total Warhammer 40k fan, both of the game and of the books, particularly as written by Dan Abnett, Gav Thorpe and James Swallow - all of whom I had the pleasure to meet at Gamesfest III last October. Talking to them, and then reading a few of senior son's books reminded me how much I enjoyed writing scenarios for table-top and live-action games back in the day. Also of the kind of thrillers and war stories I was reading in my teens, which seem to have largely disappeared from the bookshelves for some reason.
I know from experience there's a lot of fun to be had writing in that kind of shared world. Now, with the benefit of ten years at this authoring game, I can see an intriguing creative challenge in finding originality and a distinctive voice within the boundaries of a gaming system. So when I was up in Nottingham a few months ago, conversations were had and the upshot is the next couple of weeks will see me indulging in some cheery death and mayhem in the forty first millenium.
Which is all good. And helps me fight off the urge to retire to the sofa with cats and tea and a woolly shawl or something similar. We have freezing fog hereabouts today. Out on my bike first thing, I hit a patch of ice and the whole thing went out from under me. On the plus side, my aikido experience enabled me to fall as safely as was possible in the circumstances and there were no cars to run me over. Mind you, tarmac's a lot harder than tatami matting. So the buttock and shoulder that took the brunt feel increasingly stiff now. What is also now apparent is my other knee and hip were also somehow wrenched or thumped by the bike itself. Not at all sure how that happened but that leg's currently hurting more than the bruising. I am very unimpressed.
Good news. The Write Fantastic will be hosting an event at Borders, Oxford, 7.00pm on Saturday 4th April 2009, a panel discussion on reading and writing SF&F, as part of the Oxfringe Festival. Do come along and join in the Q&A!
Also, I shall be presenting my illustrated talk on Oxford's tradition of fantasy fiction, considering the city's influences on Lewis Carroll, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis and others, on Monday 6th April, at 7.00 pm at The Corner Club, Oxford.
Furthermore, on the plus side of the scales, I can now reveal The Sekrit Projekt. I am writing a Warhammer 40,000 short story for Black Library's forthcoming 'Fear the Alien' anthology.
This is pretty much down to my elder son who is a total Warhammer 40k fan, both of the game and of the books, particularly as written by Dan Abnett, Gav Thorpe and James Swallow - all of whom I had the pleasure to meet at Gamesfest III last October. Talking to them, and then reading a few of senior son's books reminded me how much I enjoyed writing scenarios for table-top and live-action games back in the day. Also of the kind of thrillers and war stories I was reading in my teens, which seem to have largely disappeared from the bookshelves for some reason.
I know from experience there's a lot of fun to be had writing in that kind of shared world. Now, with the benefit of ten years at this authoring game, I can see an intriguing creative challenge in finding originality and a distinctive voice within the boundaries of a gaming system. So when I was up in Nottingham a few months ago, conversations were had and the upshot is the next couple of weeks will see me indulging in some cheery death and mayhem in the forty first millenium.
Which is all good. And helps me fight off the urge to retire to the sofa with cats and tea and a woolly shawl or something similar. We have freezing fog hereabouts today. Out on my bike first thing, I hit a patch of ice and the whole thing went out from under me. On the plus side, my aikido experience enabled me to fall as safely as was possible in the circumstances and there were no cars to run me over. Mind you, tarmac's a lot harder than tatami matting. So the buttock and shoulder that took the brunt feel increasingly stiff now. What is also now apparent is my other knee and hip were also somehow wrenched or thumped by the bike itself. Not at all sure how that happened but that leg's currently hurting more than the bruising. I am very unimpressed.
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