Alastair Reynolds's Blog

Bonus Enterprise content

 I grabbed a few shots of the illuminated Enterprise model on my phone:

Post Half Marathon update

 After the storms of the last couple of days, Sunday 5th October was about as nice a day for running as one could hope for. It started off a bit chilly and breezy, especially as I made the long walk from Cardiff Bay to the event village near the castle, but once the run was underway I warmed up very quickly indeed, and had a good sweat on within a few kilometres.

At the village I bumped into my friend Lee from the local parkrun community, and he kindly took a photo of me just before the start:

And...

A reading from "A Dagger in Vichy"

 A short reading from my new Subterranean Press novella, which you can order here:

https://subterraneanpress.com/search.php?search_query=vichy

Thanks again to those who have helped support my Cancer Research Wales fundraising bid for the Cardiff Half Marathon. With the run just three days away, I'm feeling good and ready for the challenge. There's still time to tip some money in for CRW:

https://cardiffhalf25.enthuse.com/pf/alastair-reynolds

Cheers,

Al

The Eagle Transporter from Space:1999!

 Another slickly-produced video for your perusal, this one looking at the Eagle and the fantastic MPC kit. I was just about to go out and do a 14K training run.

Chris Foss's 1973 illustration for The Early Asimov, which appears to have influenced the design of the Eagle.

Hope this is of interest. Once again, any donations to my Cancer Research Wales half-marathon fundraiser will be greatly appreciated.

https://cardiffhalf25.enthuse.com/pf/alastair-reynolds

Fireflash!

 A little video about the Aoshima 1/350th scale model of Fireflash, the iconic atomic-powered airliner as featured in the opening episode of Thunderbirds.

Thanks for the comments on the last video; more of the same here except I've moved the camera a wee bit closer. It's all very amateur hour but it's just to get a feel for how I like the medium. The colour cast is a bit weird; either I messed with the camera settings by mistake or it's to do with moving the camera a bit closer. At least I'm not ...

An experiment with Youtube

 I thought I'd have a dabble with some video content, this time talking about the Starship Enterprise model on my writing desk:

If you've enjoyed the content, let me know, and while I'm here, there's still time to help me with my Cardiff Half Marathon fundraising for Cancer Research Wales:

https://cardiffhalf25.enthuse.com/pf/alastair-reynolds

Cheers, Al

The post-delivery week

 Handing in a book always entails some mixed feelings. There's a general sense of relief that a substantial project is off the desk for the time being, meaning that at least a month or two can be turned over to something else. In fact I haven't been into my office since sending in the Merlin book, although I was mildly tempted to go in and do some tidying up this afternoon (I didn't). There's also a period of mental and physical exhaustion, and subsequent recuperation, which doesn't really hit y...

New book delivered

 A few hours ago I hit send on my next book, provisionally entitled MERLIN'S WAY. It's the one I've been talking about for some time, a gathering-up of the four "Merlin" novellas I wrote over about twenty years. But, it's ended up being something more than that. My original plan had been to stitch together the stories with a bit of linking material, and maybe rejig the chronologically-final piece a little to smooth over some bumps in point of view. The more I worked on the project, though, the m...

Fundraising for Cancer Research Wales via the Cardiff Half Marathon

 Hi folks, yes it's me back again with another plea for your generosity as we move into the final couple of months before the Cardiff Half.

Last year I ran on behalf of Alzheimer's UK and thanks to the kindness and deep pockets of my supporters, including many who read this blog, we managed to raise just shy of two thousand pounds. Earlier this year we also did well with my RED January challenge for the Mind over Mountains mental health charity, in which I did a hundred days of consecutive runnin...

Some new books

 I'll shortly be rattling the can for my Cardiff Half Marathon cancer research sponsorship, but in the meantime here are a few new things worthy of mention.

The two Revelation Space short story collections I mentioned last time are now out in the world, and it's very nice to see them. As indicated, these gather all the stories previously compiled in the two collections Galactic North and Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days, as well as the material I've written since those two books: Monkey Suit, Open an...