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  • Authors,  Crime fiction,  Interviews,  Science Fiction

    Interview – Eric Brown

    October 14, 2019 /

    Eric Brown is one of the UK’s leading science fiction writers. Since making his first sale to Interzone in 1986 he has published more than 50 books. His novel Helix Wars (2012) was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award and two of his short stories have been honoured with the British Science Fiction Association Award. Murder By The Book (2013) marked a departure, being the first Langham and Dupre Mystery, a crime novel set in the 1950s. His latest titles are Jani and the Great Pursuit, the second volume of a Steampunk series set at the height of the British Empire, and Murder Take Three, the fourth Langham and…

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    Literary Wonderlands US hardcover

    Literary Wonderlands again

    May 7, 2016

    Shoreline of Infinity interview with Simon Morden

    September 29, 2016

    Improbable Interviews: Eric Brown

    June 28, 2017
  • Authors,  Fantasy,  Interviews

    Mythological landscapes – an interview with Alex CF

    November 18, 2016 /

    Alex CF is a noted fantasy artist. He has recently written his first novel, Seek The Throat From Which We Sing, a dark fantasy epic in a very British tradition which includes such animal fantasies as Richard Adams’ Watership Down and the deep-time pastoral fantasy of Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood. Over the last year I worked with Alex as his editor through the process of refining the novel into its published version. The book was issued in 2016 as a signed, illustrated, hardback, and is now available in paperback. Here I talk to Alex about the novel, its background, and a little about how we worked together.   Gary Dalkin:…

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    Literary Wonderlands cover

    September 30, 2016
    Literary Wonderlands US hardcover

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    May 7, 2016

    Improbable Interviews: Tricia Sullivan

    July 1, 2017
  • Authors,  Blog,  Books,  Fantasy,  Interviews,  Science Fiction

    Shoreline of Infinity interview with Simon Morden

    September 29, 2016 /

    I’m very pleased to announce that the new issue of Shoreline of Infinity (No.5 / Autumn 2016) is now out and features my extensive interview with the Philip K. Dick Award-winning author, Simon Morden. We talk about in-depth about his latest series of novels, which began earlier this year with Down Station and continues with The White City. The packed 132 page issue also features stories by Iain Maloney, Jack Schouten, Adam Connors, Nat Newman, Daniel Rosen, Thomas Clark, Rob Butler and Craig Thomson. SF Caledonia, the series on classic Scottish science fiction, continues with Monica Burns on George MacDonald’s Phantastes. There is a new comic from Stuart Beel, a…

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    Find Another Place, by Ben Graff

    January 18, 2018
    Literary Landscapes

    Frankenstein – Persuasion – Literary Landscapes Coming In October

    July 6, 2018

    Do It – Cycling Around The World For A Laugh

    August 30, 2016
  • Shoreline of Infinity 4
    Authors,  Interviews,  Science Fiction

    Interviews with Ken MacLeod & Tricia Sullivan

    June 21, 2016 /

    The latest issue of ambitious new Science Fiction magazine Shoreline of Infinity is out now. Lead story is “Senseless” by Gary Gibson, while I interview multi-award winning authors Ken MacLeod and Tricia Sullivan.

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    May 7, 2016

    Find Another Place, by Ben Graff

    January 18, 2018
    Literary Landscapes

    Frankenstein – Persuasion – Literary Landscapes Coming In October

    July 6, 2018
  • A Reckoning
    Authors,  Books,  Film,  Interviews

    Interview: A Reckoning Writer-Director, Andrew David Barker

    October 13, 2015 /

    Andrew David Barker was born in Derby, England, in 1975. I first heard about his novella, Dead Leaves, when He asked me to provide some developmental editorial input on a draft of the manuscript, which he did as a result of this interview, originally conducted with him for Amazing Stories. The interview coincided with the paperback publication of The Electric, Barker's first novel, a ghost story steeped in a love of movies, especially genre flicks from the old Universal classics to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Jaws. The Electric is also a nostalgic, bittersweet coming of age story, a resonant, evocative, deeply moving tale with shades of vintage Bradbury and…

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    Literary Wonderlands cover

    September 30, 2016
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    July 6, 2018

    Three Come Along At Once

    April 7, 2018
  • Fantasy,  Horror,  Interviews,  Publishing,  Science Fiction,  Solaris Books

    Interview: Jonathan Oliver, editor-in-chief, Solaris Books

    April 24, 2014 /

    Jonathan Oliver is one of the UK’s top genre editors. He is also a novelist, short story author and creator of shared-worlds. Recently I interviewed him by email. - Gary Dalkin: "You are editor-in-chief of three imprints – Solaris, Ravenstone and Abaddon Books – all published by Rebellion Publishing Ltd. What is your background and how did you end up in your current position? Perhaps for readers who are not familiar with Rebellion you could outline the idea behind each of ...

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    Improbable Botany – Jonathan Burton Illustration reveal 1

    July 5, 2017

    Book Review: Objects in Dreams, Lisa Tuttle

    April 24, 2013

    Mythological landscapes – an interview with Alex CF

    November 18, 2016
  • Authors,  Fantasy,  Interviews

    interview – Robert Holdstock

    September 5, 2011 /

    This interview was originally conducted for Robert Holdstock’s own website to coincide with the publication of Celtika in 2000. I had intended to publish it on my site in this slightly revised version for a while. Now hearing the terrible news of Robert’s death (29 November 2009) I have decided to put this short interview online as a tribute to one of the very finest fantasy writers the UK has ever produced. Rob Holdstock was simply one of the best. RIP. Gary Dalkin – 30 November 2009 Above is the cover of the British Science Fiction Association Special Edition publication Into The Woods: Robert Holdstock Remembered, published in tribute to…

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    A Reckoning

    Interview: A Reckoning Writer-Director, Andrew David Barker

    October 13, 2015

    Improbable Interviews: Tricia Sullivan

    July 1, 2017

    Mythological landscapes – an interview with Alex CF

    November 18, 2016
  • Authors,  Film,  Interviews,  Science,  Science Fiction

    interview – Sir Arthur C. Clarke

    September 4, 2011 /

    I conducted the following interview with Sir Arthur C. Clarke on or about 21 April 2000. At the time I was a judge of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and I arranged the interview as a promotional tie-in with the Award, which was to be presented at the Science Museum in London the following month. The Award itself is a jury award given to the best science fiction novel published in the UK in the previous year, and is actually just one of several awards, the others being for various scientific achievements, which carry Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s name. Rather than an in-depth interview about a current book or project…

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    July 6, 2018

    interview – Robert Holdstock

    September 5, 2011
    Literary Wonderlands US hardcover

    Literary Wonderlands again

    May 7, 2016

Contact

Please email gary.dalkin@live.co.uk or phone 07552 220438. I try to respond to all enquiries before the end of the working day.

Blog Posts

  • A Review Of Improbable Botany
  • Interview – Eric Brown
  • From Warrior Cats to English Detectives
  • Frankenstein – Persuasion – Literary Landscapes Coming In October
  • Just Be Yourself by Ellen M J Deaville Published
  • Debut Children’s Book Raises Money for Blind and Deaf Charities
  • Three Come Along At Once
  • Find Another Place, by Ben Graff
  • NaNoWriMo Blues – What Do I Do Next?
  • Literary Wonderlands – UK edition photos and raffle prizes
  • Improbable Botany – Jonathan Burton Illustration reveal 1
  • Improbable Interviews: Tricia Sullivan
  • Review: The Mysteries, by Lisa Tuttle
  • Improbable Interviews: Eric Brown
  • Improbable Botany interior art by Jonathan Burton
  • Improbable Botany Kickstarter launch
  • Authors for Grenfell Tower critique auction
  • Do It – an interview with RTW cyclist Adrian Besly
  • Mythological landscapes – an interview with Alex CF
  • Literary Wonderlands published today
  • Literary Wonderlands cover
  • Shoreline of Infinity interview with Simon Morden
  • Do It – Cycling Around The World For A Laugh
  • The Conscript
  • Writing Magazine article – What’s It All About?
  • Interviews with Ken MacLeod & Tricia Sullivan
  • Literary Wonderlands again
  • Literary Wonderlands
  • Dead Leaves – award nominated
  • Interview: A Reckoning Writer-Director, Andrew David Barker
  • Book Review: Echoes From The Macabre: Selected Stories, Daphne du Maurier
  • The New Media Writing Prize
  • Daphne du Maurier Country – Rebecca to the Macabre
  • Film Review: Mr. Nobody
  • Cloud Atlas, Skyfall and the McDonald’s-isation of Storytelling
  • Cloud Atlas Shrugged – or let the Skyfall
  • Exploring Daphne du Maurier’s Cornwall
  • Interview: Jonathan Oliver, editor-in-chief, Solaris Books
  • Book Review: The Kings of Eternity, Eric Brown
  • They Do Things Differently There
  • Book Review: Falling Over, James Everington
  • Film Review: La Puta y la Bellena
  • Book Review: Night Film, Marisha Pessl
  • Book Review: Stardust, Nina Allan
  • Book Review: Spin, Nina Allan
  • Book Review: Intrusion, Ken MacLeod
  • The Mirror of Our Dreams
  • Book Review: Bellefleur, Joyce Carol Oates
  • Book Review: Joyland, Stephen King
  • Book Review: Microcosmos, Nina Allan
  • Stephen King – A Beginner’s Guide
  • The Invention of Iain M. Banks
  • Book Review: Objects in Dreams, Lisa Tuttle
  • Book Reviews: This Shared Dream & In War Times, Kathleen Ann Goonan
  • A day with Jane Goodall
  • Some notes on Christopher Priest’s The Islanders
  • interview – Robert Holdstock
  • interview – Christopher Priest
  • Hope For Animals and Their World
  • interview – Sir Arthur C. Clarke
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