What would you erase, if you could? What memories would you cut from your mind? Why would you do it? To be happier? To forget someone or something who’d hurt you? Or someone you’d hurt? What if there was someone you could pay to do it for you? What if you paid them to erase …
A little while back we launched issue 1 of Mothership Zeta, our new quarterly digital magazine. Mur, Karen, Sunil and co have done an amazing job on the first issue which is available here for a ludicrously low price. And now, you can subscribe here for a price that’s just as ludicrous! The MZ team …
Escape Artists: Mothership Zeta Subscriptions Now Available!
I saw The Lady in The Van a little while ago. It’s willfully odd, gleefully eccentric and the most structurally interesting and complicated thing Alan Bennett’s ever done. I saw it on the recommendation in particular of one of the few critics I trust completely; My father, Ian Stuart. Writer, poet, ghost tour wrangler and the …
Coffee contains multitudes. Very nearly everyone’s favourite caffeine deployment system is a huge deal for fans of consciousness the world over and I’m certainly one of them. Coffee is like whiskey for people who enjoy being fully awake, a never ending merry go round of beans and distillation methods and STUFF. Seriously, the gentle nursery …
Al Dente Field Trip: Bulletproof Coffee or Pop Will Drink Itself
As short fiction is a sizable part of one of my day jobs, I like to keep an eye on any interesting anthologies that come out. This one got my attention this week. Firstly, this has the sort of table of contents that makes anyone stand up and take notice. Elizabeth Bear, Ann Leckie, Nancy …
Happy new Comics Day! It’s another good week this week and has, in fact, been a really good year. Here’s some of the things I’ve read and enjoyed recently. Something grabs you attention? Then here’s the UK List of Comic Stores and here’s Comixology. Enjoy. Thanks as ever to …
Binti is the first piece of science fiction in the Tor novella line, which is appropriate. Not only is it a story about an intensely clever, brave and compassionate young woman who finds herself doing several things for the first time, it’s also a first contact story. The brilliance of it lies in just how …
I spend a lot of time at Milton Keynes station. Marguerite, being a trainee lawyer, always has more law to do so her days tend to be pretty long. We walk in together, chat and then pick up the conversation with added ‘So how was your day?’ stuff on the walk back. It’s nice. Even …
A couple of days ago I ran a review of the third entry in Tor’s excellent new novella line, Sunset Mantle. I talked to the author, Alter S.Reiss about inspirations for the book, the romance at its heart and how he planned the final battle. Tell me a little about the inspiration for the world. …
This week’s Escape Pod comes from the incredible Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Her debut collection, This Strange Way of Dying, was published in 2013 and nominated for a Sunburst Award. Her debut novel Signal to Noise, has been praised by The Guardian and Locus as one of the best speculative debuts of the year. “Them Ships” is …
Podcasting: Escape Pod 510: Them Ships by Silvia Moreno-Garcia