THE OBJECT OF DESIRE — AN INTERVIEW WITH TANITH LEE In a remarkable career, spanning four decades, Tanith Lee has written stories in practically every genre or subgenre of speculative fiction one could imagine: dark fantasy, children’s fantasy, gothic horror, steampunk, science fiction, mythic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, fairy tales, contemporary fantasy … and the list goes [...]
I recently had the opportunity to interview award-winning author, Elizabeth Bear. It was a remarkably challenging and candid interview — much, one imagines, like the writer herself, who displayed a marked disinclination to whitewash the truth or tell comforting lies. She is the author of more than twenty published novels and a long list of [...]
VEGETABLE COMPUTERS, NARCOLEPTIC SNOW, AND THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF LIFE I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Stephen Palmer: writer, space-rock musician, and artist. One of the most intriguing and eccentric writers on the Science Fiction scene ever since his debut novel Memory Seed first appeared in 1996, Stephen has released several albums with his [...]
chronicles: What draws you to classic pulp fiction? What do you find in it that may be missing in contemporary adventure fiction? Patrick Maynard: I don’t honestly think of it as pulp fiction so much as storytelling. I read Stoker, Conan Doyle, Rohmer, Hammett, and Chandler as a kid and still read them today because [...]
chronicles: The Chalion books are wonderful. I had never read anything of yours before, and the first chapter of The Curse of Chalion completely won me over. The three books form a true trilogy, unlike so many multi-volume novels that are called trilogies these days. Did you originally set out to write three related but [...]
chronicles: To begin with Tailchaser’s Song: Why cats? TAD WILLIAMS: About that time I had moved in with my someday-to-be-ex-wife, and she had cats. I was amused and horrified by them. I’d never lived with cats before. chronicles: As a first-time novelist, were you surprised by Tailchaser’s popularity, here and abroad? Tad Williams: I was [...]
chronicles: Hi Kim, and thank you for agreeing to an interview with the chronicles network. There seems to be some confusion about the most appropriate name for the genre that you’re writing for. It seems to be trailblazing beyond what we’d normally consider to be horror, and crossing boundaries of fantasy, romance, and action/adventure. The [...]
chronicles: Knowing that your father was a stage magician and your mother a gothic novelist, it’s easy to recognize the magical part of your background in, say, the conjuring scenes in EMPIRE OF BONES, or to catch overtones of gothic romance in POISON MASTER — but were there any early influences or interests that might [...]
chronicles: When did you start writing, telling stories, possibly with the aim of being published eventually? China Mieville:: I always loved writing, but it was when I was about 15 that I decided I’d like to do it professionally. I sent off some stories to Interzone, the British SF magazine, in my late teens, but [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
Raam’s Shadow DLC out for Gears of War 3
Gears of War fans should be sprinting to their Xbox, MS points in hand, because a new batch of DLC has been released for the game. Raam’s Shadow is, in fact, the biggest add-on ever to be released in the history of the Gears of War franchise. The new mini-campaign is around three hours in [...]
Two lost Doctor Who episodes returned to BBC
If you’re a Doctor Who fan – and one of the true variety who has all the old black and white episodes on DVD, still watching them regularly – then some exciting news has emerged. Two episodes from the sixties which were thought to be lost have been discovered and returned to the BBC, meaning [...]
Focus claims Game of Thrones RPG
Focus Home Interactive has announced that it has bagged another game which is being developed that’s based on the Game of Thrones books and hit TV series. The franchise, which has suddenly got hotter than an orc torturer’s poking stick since it was aired on Sky earlier this year, has had several computer games developed [...]
Alice Eve cast for Star Trek 2
Several fresh snippets of news have popped up regarding the much anticipated JJ Abrams Star Trek sequel, which is destined to hit the silver screen in 2013. Abrams has apparently cast Alice Eve, of Entourage and Sex in the City 2 fame, for Star Trek 2 as it’s currently being referred to. The British actress [...]
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