Double your pleasure



Alex and I got great news today when our events manager confirmed we’d managed to get Ken MacLeod, one of our favourite authors and also one of our locals, set up alongside the excellent Peter F Hamilton for a double-bill author event at the end of the month. We’re still under the threat of a supposed major refit soon (well, actually should have been a while ago…) which is screwing up plans for events since we don’t know quite when it commences (if it ever bloody does) and obviously we can’t book a gig months ahead if we can’t be sure our events space isn’t being ripped up…



So this could be our last one for a while, but at least we have Ken in as well. Ken has had an event here on his home-turf for each of his books going back a fair few years now, so we were pretty keen to make sure we go his new book in before the refit (alleged refit at any rate). He and Peter did a double feature in our bookstore a couple of years ago which was great and as usual we had excellent support from the local SF Mafiosi in the shape of Iain Banks and Charlie Stross (now joining Iain and Ken on the Orbit imprint this summer) coming along too. And as usual we all ended up in the Guildford afterwards. By coincidence our Book Club the same week is discussing the Sky Road, one of Ken’s earlier books. Now I just need to try and get Newton’s Wake and Pandora’s Star (not named after my big ole' cat as far as I know) read in the next couple of weeks while juggling Quicksilver and the Confusion… Ah, the fun of having too many damned fine books by damned fine writers to read…