Every year, Talking Squid tries to bring readers a list of recommended stories to consider nominating for the Ditmar Awards. This year we have run out of time (nominations close tomorrow) and motivation. Instead, we offer the recurring Ditmar nomination recommendations. This list will not need to be updated every year as we expect it [...]
Terry Dowling’s collection Basic Black tied for Best Collection with Glen Hirshberg’s American Morons at the International Horror Guild Awards. Other winners were Conrad Williams, Norman Partridge, Paul Finch*, Stephen Gallagher, William Sheehan and Bill Shafer, Subterranean magazine, Lewis Trondheim, S.T. Joshi, Aeron Alfrey, and John Picacio, while Ramsey Campbell was honoured as a Living [...]
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Talking Squid favourite Shaun Tan, creator of The Red Tree, The Lost Thing, and artist behind The Rabbits, took away the Best Artist trophy at the World Fantasy Awards banquet in Saratoga Springs, New York. As the award is for the 2006 calendar year, this would appear to be the judges’ response to Tan’s outstanding [...]
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Rob Hood: Margo, you have been a decade-long “overnight” success — a success reflected in the fact that you have been nominated and have won an amazing, and international, raft [...]
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We resume after a brief hiatus for Conflux…
Chris Lawson: Rob, I may be over-simplifying, but it seems to me that witches are mediaeval, werewolves are late feudal, vampires are Victorian, [...]
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Mitch: You have recently up and moved with the family from one end of the country to the other. Has the sea change affected your writing in any way, [...]
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Deb Biancotti: Mitch, you’re an archetypal renaissance man, with credits in publishing and performance art, a career in layout and design, and a history in the complementary arts of wrestling [...]
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Martin Livings: Deb, you’ve been talking a lot about the supposed “death” of both the novel and the genre itself while at the same time you’re working on a [...]
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Robin Pen: Martin, you recently spent a year in another country on a grant to be a writer. Can you describe the process by which you obtained the grant [...]
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Stephen Dedman: How serious a menace is video piracy, in the form of internet downloads, to the movie industry? Is it damaging the viability of cinemas, or is it [...]
