#ian whates

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Jim Burns, cover illustration for Pelquin’s Comet, by Ian Whates, book 1 of The Dark Angels (NewCon Press, 2015).

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City of Dreams and Nightmare

They call it the City of a Hundred Rows. The ancient city of Thaiburley is a vast, multi-tiered metropolis, where the poor live in the City Below and demons are said to dwell in the Upper Heights. Having witnessed a murder in a part of the city he should never have been in, Tom, a lowly street-nick, has to run for his life through the City Below, Thaiburley’s unsavoury basement world. Accused of committing the murder himself, he is pursued by sky-borne assassins, Kite Guards, and agents of a darker force intent on destabilising the whole city. His only ally is Kat, a renegade like him, but she proves to have secrets of her own...

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Book review of Crises And Conflicts, edited by Ian Whates

This review of Crises And Conflicts, edited by Ian Whates, was written in 2017 for the British Science Fiction Association‘s magazine, Vector. NewCon Press, 2016, Paperback, 254pp, £12.99, ISBN 978-1-910935-17-0 This new anthology of 16 short stories, Crises And Conflicts, is being unilaterally deployed by NewCon Press to celebrate their tenth year of publishing. Covering the glorious genres of…

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Novedades de Febrero

Libros EL 3 de febrero estuvo firmando libros el autor Jorge Collao en la librería Jerplaz de La Serena, Chile. El libro en cuestión es el segundo del autor: Podemos reírnos en el silencio del cosmo (Editorial Puerto de Escape). El viernes 17 de febrero se presentó la novela Nade de Malena Salazar Maciá, ganadora del Premio David 2015. Los presentadores fueron Yoss y Anele Arnautó. El acto se…

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The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 010

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 010

Short story: Reaper’s Rose by Ian Whates, from Nightmare Magazine, April 2016. Highly Recommended.

Poem: We Have Slain the Savage Martians – but their Princess has Escaped by Kayla Bashe, from Strange Horizons, August 2016.

Essay: Mummy of Hornedjitef, listened to on the BBC’s History of the World in 100 Objects, from January 2010. Highly Recommended.

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The Key by Ian Whates [sci fi]

The Key by Ian Whates [sci fi]

The Key by Ian Whates [sci fi] It’s amazing what a bunch of keys can say about a person. Keyrings and their contents hold hidden depths, or so Carl had always maintained. Take his wife’s, for example: keys for the front door, car, garage, and a Yale for her mother’s place… plus various superfluous attachments: a pink-plastic pig, a Perspex heart displaying the pseudo-word ‘whateva’ and a…

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Launch Day: Dark Travellings by Ian Whates

Launch Day: Dark Travellings by Ian Whates

Ian Whates is not only an established author but runs the well respected and multi award winning British indie NewCon Press where new writers butt up against legendary names such as Tanith Lee and Neil Gaiman. With numerous short stories published and novels out with Solaris and Angry Robot, we at Fox Spirit were obviously extremely pleased when Ian said yes to doing a collection with us.

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Introducing Dark Travellings

I am very excited to finally announce a book that we have had bubbling away as a plan for quite some time!

Ian Whates of NewCon Press and author of multiple amazing series, novels and short stories is entrusting Fox Spirit Books with a collection!

Dark Travellings will be launched at Edge.Lit this summer with a stunning image from Michael Marshall Smith for the cover.

This project started with a…

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