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Books Read: Gogmagog by Jeff Noon and Steve Beard mondyboy.com/?p=10113

So excited and proud to have helped bring this to Watkins. Helen has done an amazing job of showing the breadth of the folklore tradition from the varied cultures across the African continent, as well as providing a historical context. There are amazing stories to be found here.

"The dried-apricot people, the mummy people, came at last to Mars..." Off to Worldcon. Reading for the train.

3.5-year-old has apparently named each and every toy car he owns and the names are...inventive. Sci fi writers, you can have these for free.

Aaargh! I was one of the people passing on the bad news at the Angry Robot Books stand. But brilliant that the team found the last stock. Take your chance!

A great time at #worldcon. Lovely to catch up with old friends after far too long (and sad to miss others), to make new friends and to meet in person faces from screens and buddies from emails and messages. SFFH js the friendliest genre A fab four days with team Angry Robot Books.

Peachy.

Oh my word...

Just tested positive for COVID after coming back from Worldcon at Glasgow. Apologies, but if we were in contact maybe think about getting a test? Very mild symptoms so far.

I'm lucky enough to work with these lovely folk and they are, indeed, absolutely brilliant at what they do.

Wake to freshly brewed coffee and (thank you Simon Spanton !) a galley of Ludluda by Jeff Noon and Steve Beard, follow-up to the stunning succès d'estime that was Gogmagog. Both published by Angry Robot Books, think literate, riverine, post-steampunk with pools of Conradian dread.

DAMMIT! Two of our most closely guarded secrets blown. And by one of our own authors too! Infamy!

The moment I have waited for since briefing the cover, since Ian McQue sent in his amazing initial sketches and since Alice Claire Coleman worked her design magic. LOOK! They make one picture! Jeff Noon and Steve Beard's Gogmagog and Ludluda, from Angry Robot Books.

"In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep."

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Gallus! One of my favourite Scots words and an inspired choice for the title of this anthology of new Scottish genre writing.

Artist (Ian McQue) and designer (Alice Claire Coleman) combine to produce something special for this Jeff Noon and Steve Beard duology from Angry Robot Books. The linked covers, the sketches on the back of each cover , the illusion of paper on the artist's desk on the spines.

Check out Ian Mond’s review of GOGMAGOG by Jeff Noon & Steve Beard: “there’s something nostalgic and exciting about returning to the wild imagination and propulsive storytelling that captivated me in my twenties.” locusmag.com/2024/09/ian-mo…