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A review of Blind Swimmer anthology
- Written by Seregil of Rhiminee
Blind Swimmer is an anthology, which was published by Eibonvale Press in August 2010.
Here's the description of Blind Swimmer from the publisher's website:
Eibonvale Press came into being in the winter of 2005 in a tiny Slovenian mountain town at the hands of David Rix, who sat down one day and decided “Today I am going to make a book.” The fact that he knew a lot about books but nothing at all about the book world somehow failed to make that dream flicker away like most dreams and the slow crescendo of Eibonvale Press continued from there and is still continuing. That quiet and lonely winter in the Slovenian mountains still doesn’t seem so far away as the press continues its search for the bizarre, the unclassifiable and the strange in new writing, in the process working with some of the best writers in the UK and elsewhere.
Now, this new book provides a chance to look back a bit and define Eibonvale Press as an entity. Blind Swimmer collects together 11 stories, most never before published, by all the writers who have made up or will soon make up the Eibonvale Press family. The result is a book that is as varied as the press itself. Creativity in Isolation was the theme we set, and the results are as varied as the writers themselves. Different takes on what creativity is, what isolation is and whom we are talking to as we tell our tales in the wilderness. The stories stretch from classically tinged horror to urban strangeness to experimental fiction and surrealism. From short stories to full length novellas. From the wilderness of Britain and Sweden to the equal wilderness of the American urban landscape. Blind Swimmer is a unique and spectacular journey through the flip-side of contemporary writing.
With a foreword by Joel Lane and an introductory essay by David Rix.
Contributors: Nina Allan, Gerard Houarner, Rhys Hughes, Brendan Connell, David Rix, Allen Ashley, Jet McDonald, Douglas Thompson, Terry Grimwood, Alexander Zelenyj, Andrew Coulthard.
Here's the review:
A REVIEW OF BLIND SWIMMER
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An interview with Angie Sage
- Written by Seregil of Rhiminee
Angie Sage is a British author and illustrator. She is the author of two fantasy series (Septimus Heap and Araminta Spookie). Her first novel, Magyk (book 1 of the Septimus Heap series), was published in 2005.
The official Septimus Heap website can be found here.
Risingshadow.net has had the honour of interviewing Angie Sage. You can read the interview here:
AN INTERVIEW WITH ANGIE SAGE
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An interview with Helen Lowe
- Written by Seregil of Rhiminee
Helen Lowe is a New Zealandian novelist, poet, broadcaster and blogger. She is the author of Thornspell and The Heir of Night (The Wall of Night, Book 1).
Helen Lowe's official website can be found here. Her blog can be found here.
Update (September 28, 2010): The Heir of Night is on sale in the USA today. Click here to join the celebration. Click here to read Helen Lowe's guest post on the EOS Books blog.
Risingshadow.net has had the honour of interviewing Helen Lowe.
AN INTERVIEW WITH HELEN LOWE
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A review of Douglas Thompson's Sylvow
- Written by Seregil of Rhiminee
Douglas Thompson's Sylvow was published by Eibonvale Press in August 2010.
Here's some information about Douglas Thompson:
Douglas Thompson graduated from the Mackintosh School of Architecture in 1989, went to busk on the London Underground and won the Grolsch/Herald Question of Style Award for new writing, all in one strange summer. Since then he has published short stories in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, most recently New Writing Scotland, Chapman, Ambit, and reviewed architecture for The Herald. He won second prize in the Neil Gunn Writing Competition in 2007, and currently works as an architectural designer and computer 3d-visualiser. His first novel, “Ultrameta”, was published by Eibonvale Press in August 2009, and hailed as “a new form or literature for a new century” and “a modern classic” by Sci-Fi Online.
Douglas Thompson's official website can be found here.
Here's the description of Sylvow from the publisher's website:
In the city of Sylvow, brother and sister Claudia and Leo Vestra made a childhood promise to each other: he would look after the plants and she would look after the animals.
Unlike most promises, both of these were kept – each in their own way. Claudia is now a vet – looking after pampered pets or putting down strays and leading a mundane life in the city. Leo, on the other hand, disenchanted with modern urban life, has abruptly abandoned his wife and disappeared into the surrounding forest, his only contact with the outside world being a sequence of dramatic and prophetic letters – increasingly convinced that a semi-sentient natural world is preparing to rebel against its human irritants.
Nature is a strange thing – although we have done an amazing job of cataloguing and observing it, we still know very little about it. Nature always surprises – and always changes, especially under an external influence such as humanity's devastating effect on the environment. This book follows its cast of characters through a spectacular clash between everyday life and life on the evolutionary scale – as society dissolves and is stripped away under the onslaught of surreal environmental disaster. Douglas Thompson has dug deep into the inevitable guilt that we all feel, as a culture/species, for the disastrous state of civilization and its effect on both ourselves and the world around us – in the process touching on elements as diverse as literary surrealism, philosophical tract, horror, disaster novel and visionary science fiction.
A REVIEW OF DOUGLAS THOMPSON'S SYLVOW
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A review of Lynn Flewelling's Glimpses
- Written by Seregil of Rhiminee
Lynn Flewelling is the author of two popular fantasy series (Nightrunner series and The Tamír Triad).
Lynn Flewelling's Glimpses will be published by Three Crow Press (here's another link) on September 21, 2010. Glimpses is a collection of Nightrunner short stories. It contains several illustrations by professional and amateur artists.
Lynn Flewelling's official website can be found here and her blog can be found here.
A REVIEW OF LYNN FLEWELLING'S GLIMPSES
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