I’m very pleased to note that The Recollection appears at number 6 in Forbidden Planet’s list of favourite books.

The Best Books of 2011

1) Thursday 20th Oct — from 6pm-7pm, I will be discussing genre fiction on a panel with Juliet E. McKenna, Cheryl Morgan and Jo Hall, at St Mark’s in Easton as part of the Bristol Festival of Literature.

2) Friday 21st Oct — from 12pm-1pm, I will be joining Juliet E.McKenna, Justina Robson, and Paul Cornell for a lunchtime book signing at Forbidden Planet in Clifton.

3) Saturday 22nd Oct — from 10am-11pm, I will be one of the guests at BristolCon, which is being held at the Ramada Hotel on Redcliffe Way, close to Temple Meads station, where I will be participating in at least four panel discussions and performing a reading from my latest book.

I hope to meet as many of you as possible at these events.

If you can’t make the book launch on 25th August (see previous post), you can still pre-order a signed copy of The Recollection via the Forbidden Planet website:

Click to pre-order.

Photo by Danie Ware.

Today, I was told by the manager of the Forbidden Planet store in Bristol that my short story collection reads like “JG Ballard on Prozac”. He meant this as a compliment, and it’s made me determined to read more of Ballard’s work, as this is the second time we’ve been compared.