I’m looking forward to Sferakon 2014 in Zagreb, Croatia, which takes place from 16th to 18th May. I’ve been invited as a guest of honour. Which is an honour. Hvala lijepa!
Category: News & events
Dort.con
Ich freue mich sagen zu können dass ich am DORT.con 2015 als internationaler Ehrengast teilnehmen werde. Weitere Details hier.
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Easter 2014 not yet here and I’ve got something in my diary for Easter 2015! I’m proud to be a guest of honour at Dort-con (Dortmunder Science Fiction Convention) in Germany. If you can read German, more details are here. I’m looking forward to it.
Currently the only book of mine available in German is Messias Maschine. I wrote a few notes for German readers here, kindly translated by my friend Thure Etzold.
US release of Dark Eden
Dark Eden came out in the US and Canada yesterday!! Random House have sent me a bunch of N American blog reviews that have appeared so far, and I’ll post the links here. Haven’t read them all but the ones I have read are pretty good.
o http://pili-inlovewithhandmade.blogspot.com/2014/03/mark-this-book-monday-arc-review-of_7244.html
o http://books-forlife.blogspot.com/2014/04/dark-eden-chris-beckett.html
o http://shetreadssoftly.blogspot.com/2014/03/dark-eden.html
o http://www.fridaynirvana.com/fiction/2014/04/book-review-dark-eden-by-chris-beckett.html
o http://www.fromlefttowrite.com/tag/feed-your-reader/
o http://www.sfx.co.uk/2014/03/24/coming-up-in-the-sfx-book-club/
o http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/scifi/giant-freakin-bookshelf-week-march-31-2014.html
o http://www.myfriendsarefiction.com/my-to-read-list-for-march
The Holy Machine: new cover
The new edition of The Holy Machine is now available. It’s the same book inside the cover, of course, but books are objects too, and this new version seems to me a pretty desirable thing.
The contents aren’t bad either:
“A triumph.” – Paul di Filippo, Asimov’s SF.
“…the sparse prose and acute social commentary of a latter-day Orwell…” – Eric Brown, The Guardian.
“The most amazing book I have ever read…. Simply amazing. A must read for all human beings!” – Rafael from Brooklyn: enthusiastic Amazon.com reviewer!
The Holy Machine is also available as an unabridged AUDIO BOOK, read by John Banks.
More about The Holy Machine here.
Dark Eden: N. American edition on its way
I’ve just received the book proofs of the North American edition of Dark Eden, looking very smart with its eerie new cover image of the sunless forest of Eden.
And it’s now available for pre-order from Amazon.com and from Amazon Canada. A new US audio book version is also under way.
New interview: Nov 2013
Here’s a recent interview with Kritika Iyer. Thanks, Kritika!
New cover for The Holy Machine
This is the striking new cover for a reissue of The Holy Machine which will be available from early December from Corvus. Corvus hope, as I do, that it will draw the attention of people who enjoyed Dark Eden, but haven’t yet come across this, my first novel. There’s more information about the book here, and some thoughts on its history here.
As well as paperback and ebook, The Holy Machine is also available as an audiobook, narrated by John Banks.
Free audio version of ‘Our Land’
A free audio version of my story ‘Our Land’ here, really beautifully narrated by Scott Barclay (accents and everything) in Dark Fiction magazine.
Also free stories by Hal Duncan, Chloe Yates and Den Patrick.
‘Our Land’ is included in the short story collection The Peacock Cloak, published earlier this year.
US edition of Dark Eden
This is the completely new and I think very beautiful cover for the US edition of Dark Eden, to be published on April 1st 2014 by Broadway (part of Random House). Further details, preorders etc here.
Summer reading
It’s good to see both Dark Eden and The Peacock Cloak appearing in lists of recommended summer reading. Dark Eden in the Guardian, Peacock Cloak in the Financial Times.
