Iain M Banks, Peter F Hamilton and China Miéville

[Pixel]

Morning, folks -


I manage to get across here so rarely these days, but I realised I'd been negelecting my buds, and I miss you!


Last year I had been posting links to the interviews I had been doing for my website, but things got busy, so with apologies for my tardiness, our recent science fiction authors -

Iain M Banks, creator of the Culture series, which celebrated its 25th anniversary last year with The Hydrogen Sonata -

http://www.geekchocolate.co.uk/inde...ltured-interview&catid=47:interview&Itemid=68

Peter F Hamilton, creator of the Commonwealth saga, whose last novel was the standalone Great North Road -

http://www.geekchocolate.co.uk/inde...the-commonwealth&catid=47:interview&Itemid=68

And China Miéville, three time winner of the Arthur C Clarke award for Perdido Street Station, Iron Council and The City & The City, who most recently recreated Moby Dick on a distant planet in Railsea and is currently writing Dial H -

http://www.geekchocolate.co.uk/inde...of-the-new-weird&catid=47:interview&Itemid=68

All of them were fantastic guys to interview, so I hope you enjoy.

And now I need to start making arrangements for the next batch of interviews...

 

[RAMA]

Thanks!

 

[Pixel]

Totally welcome - hope you enjoyed them!

 

[Greg Cox]

Hamilton's "Greg Mandel" trilogy, about a private eye in a near-future transformed by global warming, are also worth reading.

(Full disclosure: I was involved with publishing the original American editions. And once had a very nice dinner with Peter at a Worldcon in Glasgow.)

 

[Pixel]

Peter was very nice both times I've met him - just wish I had more time to read more of his books!