Articles written by Colin Harvey
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The Author Statistics Behind the 2011 Hugo Nominations
The final ballot for the 2011 Hugo Awards mixes first time nominees such as Mira Grant, and major names like Connie Willis and Lois McMaster Bujold
Jun 30, 2011
- Colin Harvey
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Science Fiction 101; A Genre History From Gernsback to Bacigalupi
Sci-fi comes from scientifiction and Hugo Gernsback's Amazing Stories in 1926; but the genre has evolved through the New Wave, Cyberpunk & other movements.
May 31, 2011
- Colin Harvey
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2011, Reviewed
Fiction by Kate Wilhelm, Barry N. Malzberg, Richard A. Lupoff, Alan Dean Foster, Albert E. Cowdrey; reviews by Charles de Lint, humour from Paul Di Filippo.
Feb 23, 2011
- Colin Harvey
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Black Static 20, (December-January 2011) from TTA Press, Reviewed
Britain's leading horror magazine has new fiction from Ray Cluley, Paul Meloy, Sarah Pinborough and Bram Stoker award winner Norman Prentiss
Jan 30, 2011
- Colin Harvey
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Time Travel 101; A Study of the Topic in Genre Science Fiction
From early works by Lawrence Manning and John W. Campbell to recent stories from John Crowley to Michael Swanwick, time travel is a science fiction staple.
Jan 23, 2011
- Colin Harvey
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Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal, Reviewed
The latest novel to pay homage to Jane Austen, a first novel of glamour by the Hugo-nominated winner of the 2008 John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Jan 13, 2011
- Colin Harvey
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Interzone 231 From TTA Press: September-October 2010 Reviewed
The Jason Sanford special has three stories and an interview, fiction by Aliette de Bodard, plus reviews of Surface Detail, Metropolis, Despicable Me and V
Dec 19, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Mistwood by Leah Cypess, A Fantasy From Harperteen, Reviewed
Epic fantasy from first-time novelist Cypess takes the reader to a magical land of shapeshifters and spells where rivals battle for the throne of Samorna.
Dec 7, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Rounding Off Halloween: Black Static 19 from TTA Press, Reviewed
Britain's leading horror magazine contains fiction from Joel Lane, Lavie Tidhar, Ray Cluley & reviews of Never Again, Stories, Zombie & Best New Horror 21.
Oct 31, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill, Another Halloween Review
20th Century Ghosts is nominally horror, though many stories transcend the genre, including the World Fantasy Award winning novella Voluntary Committal
Oct 28, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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The Harm by Gary McMahon, From TTA Press; A Review For Halloween
Halloween is a time for all things Horror; British Fantasy and August Derleth Fantasy Award nominee Gary McMahon's powerful novella epitomises quiet horror
Oct 26, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Carrie by Stephen King: A Horror Classic Reviewed for Halloween
Bridging Polanski's adaption of Ira Levin's novel Rosemary's Baby and the film of William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist, King's debut novel sold millions.
Oct 24, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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The 2010 Gulliver Travel Research Grant Winner Announced
The latest winner of an award that has previously gone to Matt Hughes, N.K. Jemison, Christopher Barzak, and Alaya Dawn Johnson
Oct 16, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Those Cosmopolitan Hugos
British writers Charles Stross, China Mieville & Neil Gaiman are winning more and more of the World Science Fiction Society's annual achievement awards. Why
Oct 10, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson, Reviewed
The Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell-winner weaves fact and fiction seamlessly into a future conspiracy with echoes of Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Oct 9, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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British Fiction Hugo Award Winners 1953 - 2010
All the British fiction winners; J.K. Rowling, China Mieville, Arthur C. Clarke, Brian W. Aldiss, the lesser-known John Brunner, David Langford and others
Oct 3, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Stephen Baxter's Flood, Reviewed
John Wyndham-style cosy catastrophe edges into Day After Tomorrow disaster-scenario then to Ballard-ian end of the world in a re-visit to a biblical ur-myth
Sep 12, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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The 2010 Hugo Award Winners
First Hugos for Paolo Bacigalupi, China Mieville, Will McIntosh & Peter Watts; veterans Frederik Pohl & Jack Vance honoured, together with Russell T. Davies
Sep 6, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Ira Nayman Interviewed On Books and Stories
Ira talks about Darwin's Bastards and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, and between digressing onto Garry Shandling, explains why he doesn't tell jokes.
Sep 5, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Ira Nayman Interviewed On Favourites -- Comedy and Books
Comedian Ira Nayman talks about Eddie Izzard, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, as well as Elvis Costello and others
Sep 3, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Black Static Issue 18 from TTA Press, Reviewed
Fiction from Nina Allan, Nicholas Royle, Carole Johnston, Mercutio D. Rivera & Simon Kurt Unsworth, Adam Nevill interviewed, and The Campaign for Real Fear
Aug 29, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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20 Questions Lawrence M. Schoen, Author, Publisher, Psychologist
Better known to many as 'The Klingon Guy,' Dr Schoen has written 'The Moment,' a Hugo nominee, and Buffalito Destiny and edited the anthology Alembical
Aug 15, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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The City and The City by China Mieville, Reviewed
Mieville's first novel since Iron Council ended the Bas-Lang sequence is a noir-detective novel that owes more to Le Carre than either Allingham or Marlowe
Aug 1, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction August-September 2010
Fiction from Ian R. MacLeod, Albert E Cowdrey, John Langan, Richard Bowes,Heather Lindsley, Sean McMullen; Mark Rich's biography of Cyril Kornbluth reviewed
Jul 26, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Interzone Evaluated: Awards, Stories Reprinted, Issues Published
Where does Interzone stand vs other magazines? Not just Asimov's, Analog and F &SF, but Galaxy, New Worlds and Amazing. Hugo & Nebula nominees, and issues?
Jul 19, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Interzone 229, Published by TTA Press, Reviewed
Mulan DVD reviewed, and film of Iron Man 2. Fiction by Jim Hawkins, Antony Mann, Paul Evanby, Toby Litt & Rochita Loenen-Ruiz; Jeff VanderMeer interviewed
Jul 16, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Albedo One Issue 38 from Aeon Press, Reviewed
James Gunn interviewed,fiction from Bruce McAllister and Martin Belderson as well as the 3rd place Aeon Award prizewinner and artwork from Jacob Probelski
Jun 30, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Black Static Issue 17 from TTA Press, Reviewed
Debuts from John Shirley, Vylar Kaftan & Suzanne Palmer, Daniel Kaysen returns, Karron Warren etc in the Campaign for Real Fear, and Pete Tennant & Tony Lee
Jun 28, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy, Reviewed
Fiction from Ted Chiang, Tim Pratt, Tom Reamy, Leah Bobet, Andy Duncan, Rhys Hughes, Liz Williams, Jeffrey Ford, RA Lafferty, David D Levine and many others
Jun 27, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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The Terror and the Tortoiseshell by John Travis, Reviewed
The new novel from Canadian publisher Atomic Fez mines a fictional trope dating back to Aesop, and parallels Kij Johnson's Nebula nominated novelette.
Jun 6, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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James Cooper's The Beautiful Red, from Atomic Fez Publishing
Reviewed: a new collection of dark fantasy stories published in Black Static, Postscripts & The Humdrumming Book of Horror, by the author of You Are the Fly
May 31, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Interzone 228: The May 2010 Issue of The UK's Premier SF Magazine
Fiction from Jason Sanford, and Hugo-award winner David D. Levine, while reviews include the DVD/Blu Ray release of Avatar, and the film of The Lovely Bones
May 23, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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20 Questions With – Peter Tennant of TTA Press' Black Static
The first of an occasional series talks to one of the Editorial Staff of Interzone, producer of Case Notes and prolific reviewers of fantastic fiction today
May 19, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Silversands by Gareth L Powell from Pendragon Press, Reviewed
In the island SF tradition of Eric Brown, Arthur C. Clarke & Michael G. Coney is a first novel from a resurgent publisher & a rising star of British Sci-Fi
Apr 27, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Black Static 16 From TTA Press, Reviewed
Fiction by Tim Casson, M.G. Preston, Lynda Rucker, Alison Littlewood & Mike O'Driscoll; Columns by Stephen Volk, Christopher Fowler, Tony Lee & Pete Tennant
Apr 24, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde at Bath's Theatre Royal
Touring prior to London's West End, this new version of an 1891 play is a witty melodrama about predestination & free will, starring Lee Mead & Gary Wilmot.
Apr 23, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Shine, Edited by Jetse de Vries; Optimistic Near-Future SF
Solaris Books present fiction by Alastair Reynolds, Jason Stoddard, Aliette de Bodard, Lavie Tidhar, Gareth L Powell, Gord Sellar, Holly Phillips & others
Apr 18, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Albedo One From Aeon Press, Reviewed
Greg Egan interviewed; Fiction by Robert Reed, DT Neal & TD Edge; Juliet E McKenna reviews Kari Sperring, and David Conyers reviews Dozois' Year's Best SF
Apr 17, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, An Anthology Edited by Ellen Datlow
Each year the Science Fiction Writers of America honour the Best Novel, Novella, Novelette and Short Story; here they are with the Rhysling Award-winners.
Apr 11, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar, Reviewed
Little nods abound to Robert A Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Fritz Leiber, Kurt Vonnegut & Dorothy L Sayers in an early contender for the Locus Award for Best First Novel.
Mar 28, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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(The War Against) Goggle Eyes, by Anne Fine
The 1989 best-seller from the Children's Laureate and award-winning author of (Madam) Mrs Doubtfire was also made into a BBC television series starring Honeysuckle Weeks
Mar 27, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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A Dog Called Grk, Reviewed
Timothy Malt is a schoolboy who finds Grk the dog; to reunite him with his owners Tim must battle the Stanislavanian Army and the evil Colonel Zinfandel and Major Raki.
Mar 20, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, Reviewed
A timely tour for the successor to The Hound of the Baskervilles, given the Hollywood film starring Robert Downey jr and Jude Law, from the director of The Woman in Black
Mar 14, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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F & SF March-April 2010 Reviewed
Fiction by Albert Cowdrey, Rand B. Lee, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Richard Bowes, Tim Sullivan & Bruce McAllister; reviews by Charles de Lint, Michelle West and Lucius Shepherd
Mar 13, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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The Lovely Bones, Reviewed
The new film from The Lord of the Rings' director seems to have everything. Great source materiel, terrific actors- namely Susan Sarandon, Saoirse Ronan and Stanley Tucci
Mar 6, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Black Static Issue 15 by TTA Press, Reviewed
Fiction by James Cooper, Daniel Kaysen & Sarah Singleton; commentary by Christopher Fowler and Stephen Volk; reviews by Peter Tennant and Tony Lee of Slights, and Room 36
Feb 28, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Hedda Gabler, Reviewed
Rosamund Pike stars beside Robert Glenister, Tim McInnery and Colin Tierney in director Adrian Noble's production of a controversial heroine, translated by Michael Meyer
Feb 27, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Asimovs Science Fiction March 2010 Reviewed
The March issue of the leading sci-fi magazine has stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Alexander Jablokov and opinion from Robert Silverberg and Paul di Filippo
Feb 21, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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Asimovs SF February 2010 Reviewed
Fiction from Stephen Baxter, Aliette de Bodard, Damien Broderick and Bruce McAllister, opinion from Robert Silverberg, editor Sheila Williams and James Patrick Kelly
Feb 14, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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The Love We Share Without Knowing, Reviewed
The author of One for Sorrow & The Language of Moths returns with elegant literary speculative fiction in the tradition of Cloud Atlas and The Yiddish Policeman's Union
Feb 7, 2010
- Colin Harvey
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