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2:05 pm
by Ken
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My engagements so far for 2012:
Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 February: with
many other authors, as well as noted SF/F
fans and artists at
SFX Weekender 3, Pontin's Holiday Park, Prestatyn Sands, North Wales. It's hoped (but not promised) that pre-publication copies of my new novel,
Intrusion (Orbit, 1 March 2012), will be available for signing in
the dealers' room.
Intrusion is, of course, already available for pre-order in
hardcover and
Kindle editions. Cory Doctorow, who has kindly allowed me to quote from his forthcoming review, describes it as
a new kind of dystopian novel: a vision of a near future "benevolent dictatorship" run by Tony Blair-style technocrats who believe freedom isn't the right to choose, it's the right to have the government decide what you would choose, if only you knew what they knew. ... a haunting, gripping story of resistance, terror, and an all-consuming state that commits its atrocities with the best of intentions.
Iain M. Banks calls it a
twistedly clever, frighteningly plausible dystopian glimpse.
Friday 13 April, evening: a panel on transhumanism/posthumanism with, among others, Justina Robson and Steve Fuller at the
Edinburgh International Science Festival.
Saturday 14 (evening) to Sunday 15 April: Guest of Honour at the lively and highly commendable annual 'fantastic weekend for readers and writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror', now in its sixth year,
Alt.Fiction, Phoenix Digital Arts Centre, Leicester.
Labels: coming attractions, self-promotion, writing
Yay! A new Ken MacLeod novel. Looks like I will be spending some more money this holiday season. I buy all of your books in hardcover, but i refuse to buy electronic books slathered in DRM. Guess i will be reading it old school.
That's a pity for the both of us, since I am sure that you would have liked the extra sale, and I would have liked to read it on my posh new iPad.
By Mouldy Squid, at Monday, January 02, 2012 5:52:00 pm