Boris Karloff’s Possibilities
I had such a brilliant time at the Clarke Award ceremony, and cheered for Harry Josephine Giles’ win with Deep Wheel Orcadia, which is such a beautiful and meaningful book. A worthy winner.
Thanks to everyone who sent me messages and wished me luck; it was not to be, but I got to be in such good company, and also to walk around the Science Museum’s exhibition ‘Voyage to the Edge of Imagination’. It featured many amazing things, but my personal favourite was the costume Boris Karloff wore to play the monster in Frankenstein. That tatty, holed, huge outfit sat alongside so many shiny objects. Science fiction ages with us, and sometimes faster or slower than us. Frankenstein now feels both ancient and ageless.
Back to the future. Now I can stop thinking about us all being alone together at Skyward Inn and move on, and there’s quite a lot of exciting news coming up shortly. I’ll start with an upcoming short story, Possibilities are Endless, which will be published in the final Black Static. Here’s a sneak peak of the stunning artwork by Richard Wagner.
Black Static has been a big part of my writing life. Seeing my first strange stories appear in it, featuring monsters or seaside hotels or both, was thrilling. I’m very pleased and very sad to be in the last edition.
