Dan Abnett's Blog, page 14
May 19, 2010
Bring On The Bad List
Monday's Tropic Of Conversation got you all nice and chat-tastic again - keep it up, and keep posting those hero choices too. Comments so far:
Christian - Good call. I had completely forgotten about Dominic Fortune and how much I like him.
Mob - Both Iron Fist and Union Jack are just outside my top five. Iron Fist and Warlock are characters who have featured in two of my all-time favourite single pages in comics. I'll dig out the issue references sometime. And why is Wanda Maximoff such a big s...
Christian - Good call. I had completely forgotten about Dominic Fortune and how much I like him.
Mob - Both Iron Fist and Union Jack are just outside my top five. Iron Fist and Warlock are characters who have featured in two of my all-time favourite single pages in comics. I'll dig out the issue references sometime. And why is Wanda Maximoff such a big s...
May 17, 2010
Monday's Tropic of Conversation
And so to Monday.
If it wasn't weird enough to have Gaunt's name popping up all over Brasil, here's another old friend too.
Today's point of contention is going to be "Top Five Marvel Heroes". Right now, this morning, mine are:
a) Iron Man
b) Adam Warlock
c) Doctor Strange
d) Scarlet Witch
e) Colossus
Quite apart from the Freudian analysis field-day that list undoubtedly invites, what about you? Who are your Marvel heroes?
If it wasn't weird enough to have Gaunt's name popping up all over Brasil, here's another old friend too.
Today's point of contention is going to be "Top Five Marvel Heroes". Right now, this morning, mine are:
a) Iron Man
b) Adam Warlock
c) Doctor Strange
d) Scarlet Witch
e) Colossus
Quite apart from the Freudian analysis field-day that list undoubtedly invites, what about you? Who are your Marvel heroes?
May 15, 2010
What have you got for us today, Dan?
Well, many things, as it goes.
As much as SFX give good party, and believe me, they do, they're also quite the institution when it comes to magazines, which means they don't just throw parties, they also take pictures of them, and talk to their party guests.
So, here you have it all. They invited me to a party, they took pictures of everyone, and they interviewed me. Splendid stuff.
Now that SFX has treated me in such fine fashion, I'm hoping they'll also celebrate "Ultramarines". Yes, I know ...
As much as SFX give good party, and believe me, they do, they're also quite the institution when it comes to magazines, which means they don't just throw parties, they also take pictures of them, and talk to their party guests.
So, here you have it all. They invited me to a party, they took pictures of everyone, and they interviewed me. Splendid stuff.
Now that SFX has treated me in such fine fashion, I'm hoping they'll also celebrate "Ultramarines". Yes, I know ...
May 11, 2010
What a swell party (followed by a Dwell party)
And so to Waterstone's Picadilly, for the SFX Summer of SF Reading launch party.
Thanks, SFX for a very stimulating evening. Good talk, a great venue, and some illustrious company. Nik got her hands on Sir Terry Pratchett and didn't know when to let go; she's still heaving with embarrassment for being such an asshat fangirl, but it was fun to watch. Just to balance things out, I managed to make a screaming cock-up of introducing myself, Graham and Nik to Adam Roberts. In some American states,...
Thanks, SFX for a very stimulating evening. Good talk, a great venue, and some illustrious company. Nik got her hands on Sir Terry Pratchett and didn't know when to let go; she's still heaving with embarrassment for being such an asshat fangirl, but it was fun to watch. Just to balance things out, I managed to make a screaming cock-up of introducing myself, Graham and Nik to Adam Roberts. In some American states,...
May 9, 2010
Par... Tay!
It seems like weeks ago that I was invited to the SFX Summer of Reading Party, and I was quite looking forward to it. Now that it is just around the corner, and Nik is wondering what to wear, I'm really looking forward to it.
It's always a treat to be out in public, especially these days when I'm not often allowed to play outside on my own (I don't know what Nik thinks I'm going to do, vomit on someone, probably). In particular, it's a very special treat to be in a room with other writers. Acc...
It's always a treat to be out in public, especially these days when I'm not often allowed to play outside on my own (I don't know what Nik thinks I'm going to do, vomit on someone, probably). In particular, it's a very special treat to be in a room with other writers. Acc...
May 4, 2010
Avast behind!
Things should also be spliced, I believe. Fell Cargo, my Warhammer pirates novel, is now available again from the Black Library. It was written a little while ago, long enough for it to have become somewhat uncanonical, but it's still a rollicking pirates-and-sorcery adventure (the technical term is yarn) and it has a devoted band of followers. When it came out, it never found an audience on the scale of Gaunt or Eisenhorn, but everyone who did read it seemed to rate it very highly indeed. If...
May 2, 2010
Living Forever
If you want something to stir you on this rainy Bank Holiday Sunday, and you're a long time reader of the Ghost books, you could do a lot worse than this rather wonderful, bittersweet compilation, though the words spoiler and warning definitely apply to anyone who is not up to date with the books. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Everyone else, hankies at the ready. Some great art here too, BTW.
Everyone else, hankies at the ready. Some great art here too, BTW.
April 23, 2010
SFX Party with the stars!
...and me!
The lovely folk at SFX have organised an Evening with SFX to celebrate their Summer of SF Reading. It takes place at Waterstone's Piccadilly store in London on May 10th. There'll be an in-store book signing open to all in the early evening, followed by an exclusive, ticket-only function where the fortunate few can mingle with the likes of Adam Roberts, China Miéville, Michael Cobley, Stephen Hunt, the mighty Mr Graham McNeill and SFX editor Dave Bradley. Oh yes, and me! AND what SFX...
The lovely folk at SFX have organised an Evening with SFX to celebrate their Summer of SF Reading. It takes place at Waterstone's Piccadilly store in London on May 10th. There'll be an in-store book signing open to all in the early evening, followed by an exclusive, ticket-only function where the fortunate few can mingle with the likes of Adam Roberts, China Miéville, Michael Cobley, Stephen Hunt, the mighty Mr Graham McNeill and SFX editor Dave Bradley. Oh yes, and me! AND what SFX...
