My audiobook, Proper Job, is finally finished! It is somewhat redundant to say that it wouldn’t exist without my producer/actor, Dave Bignell, but without his help, enthusiasm, and perseverance, and creative input, I wouldn’t be as proud of the final product. Since producing an audiobook is a dark art, I thought I’d interview Dave for […]
Author Archives: Ian Hocking
A Russia for Yuri Nikolaevich
The idea for A Russia for Yuri Nikolaevich evolved from a companion piece, A Solitude of Space, which was itself inspired by a central theme of Lem’s Solaris: that contact between humanity and an alien civilisation may not bring mutual understanding. The first draft of A Russia began as a story about a spacecraft propelled […]
Clarke Award 1: The Strange and The New
I’m making myself a hostage to fortune by implying, in the title, that I’ll review each of the Clarke Award finalists, but that’s what I’m intending to do. First, Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things. What fascinates me about Strange New Things is the contrast between the lavish treatment by the critical establishment […]