Channel Update: ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY 'Alien Clay' Preview and Public Appearance
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A channel update featuring a preview of the not-yet-published 'Alien Clay' by Adrian Tchaikovsky and other bits and bobs
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Really happy to see you engaged and busy. There’s an energy and joy in your presentation today that is infectious. Looking forward to hearing more about your upcoming events!
I'm unlikely to do many more beyond this one. This is the first I've done in many years, I returned to doing them in a big way 2016-2018 but got burned out. They're hard work, but I met a lot of great authors during that period and reconnected with some old favourites I'd not worked with for years.
beautiful cover
What a lovely video to watch on a Sunday evening. As ever, keep up the cracking work, your videos are a true tonic.
Cheers comrade!
Sounds exciting. Adrian has always been a favorite of mine in terms of SF (and fantasy i suppose, he puts out so many books) authors who are still writing today, and Lauren became one last year after Bridge.
New book, live events, and our Outlaw in the middle of it! Exciting times. Hope the event will be recorded so I can watch it from across the pond. Make it so . .
Hope so, can't say yet, the decision is not in my hands.
thanks for the heads-up! this could be amazing.
Read 'Dogs of War' before you consider anything else by AT- it remains his high water mark.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I'm particularly keen on his Children of Time series - I havé read Dogs of War. He seems to be fascinated by non-human intelligence . I also thought his Doors of Eden was very 'hi concept'. Great stuff.
The setup for Alien Clay sounds similar to Cage of Souls. Really looking forward to it but will wait for the paperback release! I’ve finally aquired Dogs of War (and Expert System’s Brother). One of those will likely be my next read of his.
They are the best ones IMHO. Good to hear from you, Matt!
Steve thanks! No one touches you in the TH-cam SF domain. By the way everyone his book is amazingly well written and necessary for all SF geeks.
You're very kind. Spread this feeling on social media, as a lot of the time I feel like a prophet without honour!
I am 2/3 way through Dogs. Really enjoying it and have Cage on the shelf TBR. Appreciate the cat / zen ending.
I found 'Dogs' far superior to anything else I've read by him (6 books in total) in terms of prose quality and message. I'd be interested to see what you think of other works by him.
I will Not make the in store, but appreciate the video none the less
thanks for this review, I was on the fence about getting this , not anymore cheers
Well, hang on for my full review. I'd still say stick with 'Dogs of War' as my chosen AT.
Stephen do you think there is a distinct trend during the past, oh, two decades, in SFF (and in some cases SF) towards subject matter that is more of the "who am I, and how do I fit into this universe?" variety as opposed to just plain good ol' adventures? I know you must have a good perspective on this from where you sit/stand in the publishing/marketing/review & commentary universe. Sounds like a very fine evening in store for you in early April with Adrian T and Lauren B. Can't wait to see it! As always OB, your content, quality, production and presentation are top-shelf, bar none! Cheers old chap.
Actually, no. There is far less SF being published now in the last few years than there was. There has always been action-adventure and always less introspective stuff, but then of course great writers can meld the two. I think SF generally has dumbed down since the 1990s- the major authors of the 1980s were generally Post New Wave- whether Humanist or Cyberpunk, they had learned the literary lessons of the new writers of the 1960s and 1970s, then a new slickness came into the field in the early 1990s in the USA. In the UK, the space opera renaissance had started some years before. After that, fewer new writers had read New Wave SF of the 60s and 1970s or the social and satirical SF of the 1950s. Consequently, their key influences were Space Opera Renaissance figures or Posthumanist hard SF writers. I know quite a number of British SF writers under 50 and their knowledge and reading of SF before the early 1990s is surprisingly sparse- or not so surprisingly sparse when you look at their writing. The genre was named 99 years ago and the amount of reading a writer needs to do now to be ahead of the curve is huge. This is why British writers of literary quality take so long to break through- Dave Hutchinson, Chris Beckett, Nina Allan and Adam Roberts are all around or approaching 60 and only reached their beginnings of commercial success 10-15 years ago. Had they been in their early 20s in the 1970s, they'd have been published by (then) literary houses like Faber and Gollancz. But 'Star Wars' brought back the lowest common denominator of the Golden Age and suddenly- particularly in the USA- publishers were no longer satisfied with SF novels of quality that only sold 50,000 copies. Instead, everything had to sell 250,000 copies. This is why so much of the great SF of the 1980s and 1990s only had one printing in paperback- these books are now far rarer than the likes of Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Herbert et all, whose work didn't hit pbk until the 1960s and worked on reputations established long before (Herbert excepted). The writers of today may think they're being innovative in addressing (for example) identity politics issues, but they are simply just ignorant of the past, as they've only read post 1986 bestselling SF. Thanks as ever for the praise, always heartening.
That is a phenomenal, and spot-on reply, Stephen. Thanks for taking the time! It makes terrible sense, unfortunately. The dumbing down...
@@rickkearn7100 My videos on Hauntology and SF should further clarify why this is so, also the one on 'Why the Modern SF you're reading isn't Modern' too!
According to Paul Cornell: Beukes rhymes with ‘mucus’ for the correct pronunciation!
Thanks Doctor!
Alien Clay sounds interesting, I wonder if it's Adrian's take on what's going on in China. I'll buy a copy. Thanks, Steve!
What are you writing?
I'll PM you.