Ben Aaronovitch's Blog, page 5
May 2, 2017
Ab Freitag
Der Galgen von TyburnRomanDer sechste Fall für Peter Grant
DER GALGEN VON TYBURN- jetzt in allen guten Buchhandlungen (und vielleicht auch ein paar bösen).
April 28, 2017
Research Failures Type 1
Research Failure Type 1
NOT DOING ANY BLOODY RESEARCH IN THE FIRST PLACE
I don't mean to single out this particular comic production team for ridicule but this turned up on my Twitter timeline and it is soooo bad that I just had to make fun of it. But for a serious purpose.
Both these scenes are set somewhere in the UK...
Now I write comics so I know about deadlines, I marvel daily at an artist's ability to get that much good ink on paper(1) within the time allotted. I always try and source pictures of things and places to speed the process along.
Even ten years ago this could be a laborious task but now I found the following in less than 30 seconds.
30 Seconds. Now it's quite possible that the people who created this comic don't give a shit about research. That's fine in which case they wont mind being used as an illustration.
(1) Although these days it's more likely to be pixels on.....um.....whatever
April 26, 2017
A Rare Book Of Cunning Device
Out Today27th April 2017
A RARE BOOK OF CUNNING DEVICE
I wrote this as an audible short story to raise money for Cityread the library charity which I'm involved with. It won't be available in other formats for ages so if you want to know what happens in it you're just going to have listen to the mellifluous tones of Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.
Audible have promised me a link to where you can get it which I'll post as soon as I have it.
April 23, 2017
A Sunday Quote
"....no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based."
Lord Vetinari in Going Postal by Sir Terry Pratchett
February 28, 2017
The Furthest Station - UK Release
Coming September 21st
From Gollancz BooksHardbackAudio (in all the usual ways)eBook (and all the usual formats)
Opening Paragraph(1)Jaget said he’d been watching this documentary on TV about the way people learn to track animals.
‘Not white people, right?’ he said. ‘Like people that grow up in the bush.’
In this case !Xun people from Southern Africa, only Jaget couldn’t do the click sound until I taught him. I can only do it because I once harboured romantic dreams of emigrating to South Africa and had got someone to teach me. Since I hadn’t practised in ten years it probably meant we were both doing it wrong. We got some from funny looks from our fellow passengers – possibly because we were both in full uniform.
(1) Yes yes I know strictly speaking not a paragraph ok? Do you want to read this or not?
From Gollancz BooksHardbackAudio (in all the usual ways)eBook (and all the usual formats)
Opening Paragraph(1)Jaget said he’d been watching this documentary on TV about the way people learn to track animals.
‘Not white people, right?’ he said. ‘Like people that grow up in the bush.’
In this case !Xun people from Southern Africa, only Jaget couldn’t do the click sound until I taught him. I can only do it because I once harboured romantic dreams of emigrating to South Africa and had got someone to teach me. Since I hadn’t practised in ten years it probably meant we were both doing it wrong. We got some from funny looks from our fellow passengers – possibly because we were both in full uniform.
(1) Yes yes I know strictly speaking not a paragraph ok? Do you want to read this or not?
February 27, 2017
The Furthest Station - Subterranean Press
Coming June 2017 from Subterranean Press
The Furthest StationA Rivers of London Novella
Available in a classy limited editionandAn even more classy and limited edition See here for details
February 24, 2017
Friday Comic Tease
Completed Inks from Black Mould Issue 5
February 21, 2017
January 29, 2017
Random Quote
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” The Litany Against Fear from Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
