Orbit Links for September 12th 2008
Welcome to our regular Friday lunchtime Orbit links round-up. Shake the rain from your coat, pull up a chair, put your feet up by the fire and enjoy a hot cuppa while we tell you what some our our authors have been up to online in the past week or so…
- Dazed Digital has posted a quick interview with Iain [M] Banks, which was conducted at this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival.
- Paul Cornell gives a brief progress report on his BBC radio adaptation of Iain [M] Banks‘ short story ‘The State of the Art’ during a recent interview on IO9.com.
- As more of Robert Jordan’s vast collection of antique and replica weaponry goes up for sale on eBay, armourer Greg Kitchens has posted a few photographs to help whet potential bidders’ appetites.
- Karen Miller is now signed-up to write Star Wars Clone Wars novels nos #2, #4 and #5.
- K.J. Parker’s forthcoming novel The Company gets the SFFWorld.com review treatment, courtsey of Mark Yon.
- Fantasy & Sci-Fi Lovin’ Book Reviews takes a look at The Way of Shadows and concludes: “even after almost 700 pages, I can’t wait to get my hands on the next book.”
- Matt Staggs reviews Orcs, by Stan Nicholls: “an action-packed tale reminiscent of Glenn Cook’s “Black Company”
- Marianne de Pierres has posted a link to some preliminary character sketches from the forthcoming Parrish Plessis Animation Project.
- Marianne de Pierres has also taken part in a podcast discussion on the subject of believable characterisation.
- Blogger Jeff C of Fantasy Book News and Reviews talks to Brian Ruckley about the art of crafting battle scenes.
- Brandon Sanderson, who is currently completing the final part of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, posts about a forthcoming RPG based on his Mistborn series.
- The latest SFSignal.com Mind Meld article addresses the subject of readers’ and writers’ (or their characters’) opposing viewpoints, and Charles Stross is one of the respondents.
- Meanwhile, Charles Stross was distinctly unamused by recent hysteria over the switch on of the CERN Large Hadron Collider. (Anyone who is still worried about possible Hadronageddon can check hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com for an update on the situation…)
- Star Wars Imperial Commando: Order 66 by Karen Traviss has been reviewed over at Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review.
- Sean Williams celebrates his NYT Bestseller status.
- Grasping For the Wind reviews Orphanage by Robert Buettner.
As always, if you see any online articles, reviews or interviews that feature an Orbit author, please feel free to drop us a line and let us know! We’ll happily name-check your website or blog with a heads-up credit in return (please remember to provide us with a link…)