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Crashland – first reviews

Crashland – first reviews 

They’re good so far, touchwood! (Not that I’m superstitious or anything. Force of habit.) Booklist loved Twinmaker so I was eager to see what they said about the sequel. They didn’t let me down (warning: spoilers for Twinmaker): Williams brings back the girl who broke the world and gives her a whole new set of […]

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Guest Post on io9: “The Tragic Demise of Science Fiction’s Greatest Idea”

Guest Post on io9: “The Tragic Demise of Science Fiction’s Greatest Idea” 

In which I espouse my theory that matter transmitters are awesome – of course! Here’s a glimpse: “The first attempts on the life of the matter transmitter were made in the 1930s, thanks to the film serials Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. The trope survived, but it was only a delay […]

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Hashtag TwinmakerIQ

Hashtag TwinmakerIQ 

Following on from Hashtag Twinmaker, here are the tweets from “I, Q” that rolled out recently. You may have noticed that the Hashtag Crashland project has already begun, with the epigraph trickling out line by line over the last eight days. The opening line is scheduled for tomorrow. Enjoy! In the beginning were the Words. […]

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Crashland imminent!

Crashland imminent! 

It’s been a great week for mail. Advance copies of all three editions of Crash/Crashland (US, UK, and Australian) arrived in consecutive days, and I am made rudely aware that the release date is almost upon us. I’ve been waiting for this so long it didn’t seem entirely real. But soon it will be, and […]

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