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SF Short Story, Doctor Who Comic Maker
I’m pleased to say that now I can announce the third of the three SF short stories I’ve got coming out in forthcoming anthologies. ‘One of Our Bastards is Missing’ is the second in my series featuring the character Jonathan Hamilton, and it’s in the forthcoming third volume of the Solaris Book of New SF. So my SF short stories list goes:
‘Catherine Drewe’ in Fast Forward 2 from Pyr, October 2008.
‘Michael Laurits is: Drowning’ in Eclipse 2 from Nightshade, also October 2008.
‘One of Our Bastards is Missing’ in Solaris 3 from, obviously, Solaris, March 2009.
I’m thus very proud to have a story in the next volume of every continuing non-theme SF anthology series out there. Short stories are the lifeblood of SF, where the genre comes from in so many ways, and I can’t tell you how enthused I am about getting involved in that field. That’s by no means the end of it either: I hope to make the SF short story something I keep returning to in future years, to the point where I have enough for an anthology.
In other news, my attempt to do something fun with the BBC’s Doctor Who Comic Maker has now appeared on their site. The script’s by me, the fine art of placing figures and buildings and booms is down to the good people who run the place. Do check it out:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho
Ah, I’m going to be in three anthologies! Hope I’m not boring you with that now. But: whee! Until next I see you, Cheerio!
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awww booo! It says if you are outside the UK you can't use the flash version. More fun us yanks have to miss out on :(
Hmmm...
Apparently my Canadian residency has barred me from even looking at your comic or the comic maker.
Anyway, congrats on the anthology news. You're going to be everywhere before you know know it. ;)
Ah well.. being in the UK - Manchester to be exact. I may give this comic book maker a go.
I'm going to kill donna oman style - have her get beheaded by a flying pane of glass - only to have her head roll to the floor and say.
'Am I bovvord'.
It's not merely that the BBC won't let non-UK visitors view the comic, but that they tell us in such a harsh way. You have that lovely site with all those nice graphics, but we get a blunt error message in default black text on harsh white background -- not even so much as a popup window. It's as if the BBC is saying "You should feel bad for even trying to see this, now accept our cold shoulder and go away quickly." It wouldn't hurt so much but they're usually so warm and friendly.
Hey Paul, did you know that there was a character created in the Doctor Who comic who crossed over into Captain Britain? Because there was.
Sorry about that, those outside the UK: I didn't know. And Rocko, yes, Alan Moore created the Special Executive there, didn't he? (Well, in a back up strip.) And Death's Head goes back and forth between Who and Marvel too.
Oh Death's Head the comic book character that joins my favorite "universes" together: Marvel 616, Doctor Who, and Transformers.
Makes me just dream of a Doctor meets Optimus Prime crossover by IDW
rab,
I understand you being upset. I get the same harsh message whenever I want to check out some of the streaming media over at www.scifi.com
It kind of goes against the spirit of internet global communitie if you ask me.
Curse my being in the States!
It's a shame those of us outside Blighty can't see the comic maker.
In the meantime, my friend William has constructed an explanation on the temporal physics of the TARDIS.
His research involved growing a 9th dimensional creature, and whispering to it while threatening to bang on certain parts with a rubber mallet.
big honkin' TARDIS speculation
I'm glad you know that, Paul. good sign. Wardog is from Galifrey. You should get him in an episode of the show, that'd be killer.
Death's Head should've been huge.
I just like the word 'hypercube'. It should be a beatnik insult in the future. And Death's Head was huge for about five minutes in 1993.
Hypercube is like a guy who's so square that he's actually, like, a box. A boxhead on a box body all compacted down in a square cube, infinity. Far out.
Death's Head here in America was like the Metric System or Soccer. The nation collectively said "Nah, we don't want it. What is it? Nevermind. We don't want it." We're just like that. But hey, aren't McDonald's fries delicious?
Death's Head as a nostalgia item.
You think that's strange? I've got serious nostalgia for Motormouth and Killpower...hint hint...
How about a book with Darkhawk, Gambit, Bishop, Sleepwalker, and Death's Head? It could be called X-TREME FORCE. the first issue would have 5 covers, one with each main character on a diamond hologram 3D image, inside a plastic bag and each featuring one of 6 different trading cards inside. One of each guy plus one with the whole team. The idea would be to buy each cover variant and a copy of each one with each different card inside. Then in 15 years you will totally be able to sell them and get thousands of dollars out of them. Around the same time Vanilla Ice gets his 3rd Grammy and we all finally embrace New Coke.
Ah, those were the days.
Hi there,
I've been a bit fan for quite a while. But, since I am outside the UK, I can't view your web comic on the BBC website (my loss). Is there any chance that it is posted somewhere else and can be viewed by people in the rest of the world?
That'd be down to the BBC, it's their baby. Sorry!
I do NOT like being denied my Who, so I decided that the simplest solution was simply to jet to London. Hee! Worth it! Liked the "I, for one, welcome our new X overlords" Simpsons shout-out, and was the "can't stop the signal" a Firefly/Serenity reference?
No, just kidding; trip to Europe planned for some time now. Now I must go, because it's gorgeous out there today in Swiss Cottage!
Glad you didn't do that just for me!