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The new year begins with a bit of snap n’ crackle, with the long-awaited launch of The Vengeance Path, the debut novel of Geekzine Editor-in-Chief Andy Jamieson. The Vengeance Path is the first in The Chronicles of Edenos, a Fantasy-Steampunk adventure series, set far into the future on an alien planet called Edenos. Humans […]
Janet Smyth is the Children’s Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, and as such is responsible for selecting which authors and events make up the Children’s programme at the book festival. Janet took time out of her busy schedule to answer my questions. Andy Jamieson: This is your second year as Children’s Director […]
If you live in Edinburgh and have never heard of Transreal Fiction, then consider yourself duly educated, as of right NOW. You are in for a treat. This fantastic bookshop is dedicated to genre fiction – SF, Fantasy, Horror etc. Making it pretty unique amongst Edinburgh bookshops. Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Mike […]
Peter Wright is the author of Ribbon of Wildness: Discovering the Watershed of Scotland, published by Luath Press, £14.99, out now. What is the Watershed of Scotland? Well imagine you are a raindrop about to land on Scotland – your destiny dear raindrop, is that by bog, burn and river, you will end up […]
Edinburgh based author, Simon Logan (above), is a writer to watch. Katja From The Punk Band is his most recent novel, and only his second novel. And it is one of the most impressive books I’ve read in a long time. It’s a stripped-down neo-noir thriller set in and on a dystopian Eastern-Bloc-esque ‘worker’ island, […]
Above: Ryan Thomason, aged 396 months, approx. Ryan Thomason is a bookseller by day, a father, and a freelance illustrator. He is the creator of Zombie Kitty and Pizza Ninja (coming soon), two comic strips exclusive to the Edinburgh Geekzine newsletter and the Geekzine website. How long have you been an illustrator? Being pretty […]