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January 28, 2019
String City Makes NetGalley Top Ten List
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Online galley proof distributor NetGalley just announced its top ten UK picks for March 2019. Whaddaya know, my latest novel String City made the list. Here’s what NetGalley has to say about the book:
There is a long tradition of SF novels sharing hard-boiled crime tropes (Blade Runner and The City and The City to name just two) and String City is a worthy entry to the canon. Unusual and mind-bending.
It goes without saying that I’m bowled over to see String City mentioned in the same breath...
January 15, 2019
Interdimensional Unboxing
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A box arrived today from another dimension. It landed on my doormat, sizzling in the key of G and covered with a thin decaying film of super-granulated quarks.
The box looked harmless enough, but I squirted anyway it with a special spray I use to stop boundary wolves from chewing at the furniture. Boundary wolves like to think they’re the guardians of the cosmos, but answer me this: would the guardians of the cosmos really lick their own ring-a-dings?
I used a semi-molecular scalpel to open...
January 13, 2019
January Jasperation
[image error]Happy New Year! Okay, maybe I’m a little late with the celebratory salutation, but it’s been a busy old time. And only set to get busier, with rather a lot of different things pulling my attention in rather a lot of different directions. Hence the title of this blog update. (If something is jasperated, by the way, it’s streaked with many colours. As with many of the strange words I fall in love with, I stumbled over this at The Phrontistery, an extraordinarily delightful website packed with r...
January 2, 2019
Quetzal Imports – A String City Snapshot
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String City once supported a thriving import-export industry. However, the recent economic collapse has brought desolation to the dockside businesses, with the exception of Quetzal Imports, which continues to operate out of a lone pyramid on the historic Lethe Wharf.
[image error]Little is known of what goes on inside the pyramid. But the recent erection of a robust quarantine fence around the entire wharf district has fuelled rumours that whatever Quetzal is importing, its papers are probably not in ord...
December 18, 2018
Cinefex 162 Makes Waves
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I’m always thrilled when a new issue of Cinefex hits the newsstands. I’m doubly delighted to announce that our December 2019 issue is now out, just in time for the holidays and making waves with a splashtastic Aquaman front cover.
Not only does Cinefex 162 contain my story on Welcome to Marwen – an article of which I’m particularly proud – but it also features my interview with the film’s director, Robert Zemeckis, whose movies I’ve been enjoying ever since Marty McFly drove a DeLorean back...
December 14, 2018
Interdimensional Inkjam
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Christmas came early! I just received advance copies of my new novel String City. Hurrah! But, oh dear, this special delivery comes with a twist. Thanks to an unexpected interdimensional inkjam, the first run of the book flew off the press with a misprinted spine.
The only option is a reprint, which sadly means a slight delay to the publication date. Previously String City was due out at the end of January 2019; now I’m afraid you’ll have to wait until the beginning of March.
The good news i...
November 28, 2018
Carr Industries – A String City Snapshot
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On the east side of String City stands a line of power plants operated by Carr Industries. These provide the metropolis with much of its power, and pump enough pollution into the atmosphere to keep The Carr Air Cleansing Company not only in business, but turning a healthy profit.
[image error]Nobody knows exactly what Theo Carr, the city’s electricity mogul, burns inside his furnaces. Local residents claim that high-pitched shrieks that can be heard echoing through the east side after nightfall, and that...
November 21, 2018
Coming Soon – String City
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Read the new novel by Graham Edwards, out January 2019 and available to preorder now.
It’s a tough job being a gumshoe in an interdimensional city full of gods, living concepts and weirder things. Good job I’m a stringwalker, able to jump between realities.
It started when I was hired to investigate an explosion at a casino. A simple heist, I thought, but it turned into a race to stop the apocalypse. So I rolled the dice, and now I’m up against the ancient Greek Titans, an interdimensional s...
November 17, 2018
Big Tusk Railhead – A String City Snapshot
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Freight trains rarely run now in String City, due to the lack of goods moving to and from the docks. In many railyards, local artists have begun converting the abandoned tracks and rolling stock into works of art.
Big Tusk Railhead is home to some of the biggest art installations, including a particularly dramatic piece entitled Whistlestop. An anonymous artist used copper pipe to connect over two hundred discarded steam locomotives, and left a plaque stating that anyone who opens and closes...
November 16, 2018
Twitter Fever
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I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with Twitter. I’ve had some wonderful experiences with it, engaging with amazing people I’d never otherwise have come across. I’ve also despaired at the barrage of nonsense that spews inevitably from a full timeline. If you’re talking signal-to-noise ratio, Twitter descends all too readily into cacophony.
Earlier this year I decided to take a break, and boldly deleted my account. Ridding myself of the compulsion to scroll through my timeline at inappr...
