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Sam Small - Book Launch - Event

Sam Small – Book Launch – Event

The Book Launch is finally here!! 26th of May 2017 at The Old Hairdresser’s. Get your tickets here Get updates here

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Caves & Clouds interview

You remember E.W Harris right?? He played at our 8th event last year, and wowed us with tunes from his album Mimetic Desire. Well, he’s not one for hanging about – he’s involved with a brand new project. Leo finds out more. You recently launched an IndieGogo campaign for The Winter of Our Discontent – the debut album from Caves & Clouds, a collaboration between yourself and Jo Kroger; tell us a…

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Seb Doubinsky - Suan Ming - Review

Seb Doubinsky – Suan Ming – Review

What a lovely way to fuck up your head! Suan Ming is ambitious, trippy, funny, serious – but most of all – it’s great fun to read. The short chapters (64 in total. Bonus prize if you guessed that’s the same amount as the I-Ching), will have you feeling like you’re flying through the story. There are little nuggets of information, delivered to you in such a way to keep you guessing throughout,…

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Speculative Fiction: where there are more believable portrayals of time travel than convincing depictions of friendship between women.

Speculative Fiction: where there are more believable portrayals of time travel than convincing depictions of friendship between women. What I’m about to talk about is probably the subject of many a thesis. As you read this there are likely hundreds of wide-eyed, caffeinated students across the land scribbling away furiously on this very subject. To all of those students, researchers and critics,…

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#Feminist science fiction #Friendship #the Bechdel Test

IWD 2018 – Short Story – Cracked by Kirstyn Smith First published in The Speculative Book. The first crack blossomed at the crook of my elbow three weeks after my Dad died.

What a gig that was!

The Speculative Bookshop Presents #8

Aw Yeah!! It’s that time again!! And this time we have gone BIIIIIG! Scottish sci-fi LEGEND – Ken Macleod All the way from the US of A – E.W Harris Writer/Poet extrodinarre – Elaine Gallagher And a Scottish Poet of 2016 the one and only – Sam Small THIS COULD BE OUR BEST YET!! So come along, tell us you’re coming here, and tell your pals! BIG LOVE

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Massive THANK YOU to everyone who performed/came along to our Event #7 the other night.

We had some fantastic talks/readings/poems/comedy. Everyone who took the stage did a sterling job, we learned a hell of a lot about world building, making comic books, Hibs fans and Will Smith. I hope you all had fun and will be joining us again for the big 2-dayer later in the year. We will be keeping you posted.

Yesterday was a wee day of rest here at Spec HQ, you might not of noticed but our host enjoyed himself a wee bit too much.

THANK YOU!! Massive THANK YOU to everyone who performed/came along to our Event #7 the other night. We had some fantastic talks/readings/poems/comedy.

The Speculative Bookshop Presents #7

We’re back with our seventh installment!! This one is shaped up to be a ripper, we have a couple of returning faces and a whole host of new ones. Tell us if your coming and invite your pals :) BEER BOOKS COMICS POETRY COMEDY Moira McPartlin – Moira made a big impact with her debut novel The Incomers, which tells the tale of a West African woman moving to a small town in 1960s Scotland. It was…

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An Interview with EW Harris...

An Interview with EW Harris…

Last year we were lucky enough to see EW Harris play an acoustic set at a High Flight Fanzine LIVE event at Nice n’ Sleazy’s, Glasgow. We instantly fell in love with the charismatic and charming performer. His songs offer brilliant, catchy country/folk licks with emotionally charged lyrics influenced by robots, mutants and of course – Deep Space 9. So naturally, we had to get to know him more.…

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ALL THE WRITING COMPETITIONS! http://ow.

ALL THE WRITING COMPETITIONS! http://ow.ly/10C0As TITIONS! http://ow.ly/i/irf9L

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So Close!

Our pal Ian Skewis is SOOOO painfully close to getting his book published. Ian wrote Inkling in The Speculative Book, a cracking story which should have wetted your appetite for more from this awesome writer. So do us a wee favour and head over and find out more about the project. Only 5 days to go. Good luck Ian!!

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E-book Available NOW!

So! Were delighted to tell you… THE E-BOOK IS AVALIBLE NOW! GET IT HERE The months of putting this together have came to an end, it’s been such a huge learning experience for us all. We hope you love it as much as we have enjoyed making it. To get your hands on a real live book you’ll need to come see us at one of our events in the near future, otherwise stay tuned, they’ll be available soon…

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Book Launch Time!

We have been putting on events for nearly two years now.. But this one is extra super special. We are launching our first ever book! We’ll have people reading, we’ll have poetry and we have entertainment from the brilliant Creative Martyrs. If you haven’t been to a Bookshop event before this is the one to pop your cherry. The good vibes and beer will be flowing, this has been a mammoth project…

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Cover Reveal

Look at it! LOOK! It’s beautiful! Kirsty Henderson took this glorious picture (20 Spec Points if you can name the bridge). Massive thanks to Designandprint Glasgow for doing the layout.

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Illustration reveal/update: The Speculative Book

Attention all replicants, reptilians, men in black, hiveminds, jedi, ghostbusters and cyborgs. The Speculative Bookshop has received your data transmission of stories and poems for our upcoming anthology, and we have decided which will be immortalised in the finished product. While we don’t have an actual date for launch sorted yet, we just wanted to put your minds at ease with the knowledge that…

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Book review - "Boldly Going Nowhere" by Steven McKinnon

Book review – “Boldly Going Nowhere” by Steven McKinnon

Scotland isn’t the kind of place where men have often been very open about their feelings. Even for my generation, attitudes towards mental health were never exactly what you would call progressive (the only time it was ever acceptable to admit to crying was after the 2003 UEFA Cup Final). It’s something we’re getting better at, though, and a young writer from the West of Scotland has just…

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