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  • Paul McAuley on Keith Roberts' PAVANE

    14 March 2012

    Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author, Paul McAuley has just posted an appreciation of Keith Roberts' Pavane on his blog. You should go read it.

    1588: Queen Elizabeth is felled by an assassin's bullet. Within the week, the Spanish Armada had set sail, and its victory changed the course of history. 1968: England is still dominated by the Church of Rome. There are no telephones, no television, no nuclear power. As Catholicism and...

  • Immortalising the Backlist

    24 January 2012

    Norman Spinrad is the acclaimed author of Bug Jack Barron and The Iron Dream, and was an important figure in the New Wave. In this piece, originally posted on the author's website and republished here with his kind permission, he offers a personal view on the digital publishing revolution in general, and Science Fiction in particular . . .

    I've been writing about the ebook publishing revolution and experimenting with ebook publishing modes long enough now for that future to have arrived faster than I had predicted and in an even more...

  • Pat Cadigan's FOOLS: A Review by Paul McAuley

    20 January 2012

    Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner, Paul McAuley, in addition to being one of SF's finest writers, is also an astute judge of a good book. Here, he reviews fellow-Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Pat Cadigan's Fools, which won the award in 1995 . . .

    Fools, Pat Cadigan's third novel, is set in the same milieu as her first,

  • Stephen Baxter on Norman Spinrad's The Solarians

    20 January 2012

    In the first of what we hope will be many guest posts by Gollancz's very talented authors, multi-award-winning author and SF Gateway Advisory Board member, Stephen Baxter, offers his thoughts on Norman Spinrad's 1966 solar disaster novel, The Solarians . . .

    I'm pleased to see Norman Spinrad's The Solarians as an early entry on the Gateway, because it's a solar...

  • Welcome

    20 January 2012

    Over the coming weeks, as we update the SF Gateway website, a blog will appear here, where we plan to give updates on the new authors who have joined the programme, highlight forgotten classics, feature current authors talking about the classic SF & Fantasy that has inspired them, and whatever else we can think of that strikes us as interesting. While we work on that functionality, here's a state-of-the-nation on the site as it currently stands.

    A comprehensive website was always integral to the SF Gateway initiative and it's become clear, in the days leading up to the publication of the first SF Gateway titles - and especially in the days since - that many of you are waiting (with varying degrees of patience!) for a resource to collate and curate the...