This month CM Lowry is talking to Graphic Designer and RPG Creator Marco Serrano about The Long Rain by Ray Bradbury in ‘This Book I Read…’ Topics covered include: Kansas being scientifically flatter than a pancake! The Long Rain is a short story by Ray Bradbury, which is a sci-fi psychological thriller. It’s only 12 …
This month CM Lowry is talking to author Dan Sumption about Viriconium by M John Harrison in ‘This Book I Read…’ Topics covered include: Viriconium is actually a collection of books, now published as a single volume, of which ‘Viriconium Nights’ is Dan’s favourite. These stories tell tales of the city of Viriconium, loosely based on …
This month CM Lowry is talking to author James Flanagan about Extremophile by Ian Green in ‘This Book I Read…’ Topics covered include: Extremophile is a bio-punk speculative sci-fi story written by Scottish author Ian Green, who also wrote The Gauntlet fantasy series. Extremophile is billed as a breakneck biohacking thriller set in climate-collapse London. James’s …
This month CM Lowry is talking to author Beatriz Seelaender about The Razor’s Edge by W.S. Maugham in ‘This Book I Read…’ Topics covered include: Beatriz shares the reasons why she loves this book: It’s very humorous It follows the story of a group of people over the years surrounding Maugham as the central character. The …
This month CM Lowry is talking to author Cécile Cristofari, about The Accursed Kings book series by Maurice Druon in ‘This Book I Read…’ Topics covered include: The Accursed Kings is series of Historical Fiction books about the Capetian Kings in France. These books are based on the legend that this dynasty were cursed by the …
This month CM Lowry is talking to author Juliet Kemp, about The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin in ‘This Book I Read…’ Topics covered include: Ursula K. Le Guin’s hero status amongst fans of Speculative Fiction and Sci-fi The mind blowing impact it has had upon Juliet’s life The two planets of Anarres & …
This month CM Lowry is talking to author Zilla Novikov, about Cascade by Rachel A Rosen in ‘This Book I Read…’ Topics covered include: The premise of the book, which is that people are trying to affect change and fight against an impending crisis from within the existing power structures and, unaspiringly, this doesn’t go …
This month CM Lowry is talking to CJ Eggett, writer and game designer, about number9dream by David Mitchell in ‘This Book I Read…’ Topics covered include: The common confusion between David Mitchell the author and David Mitchell the comedian of Peep Show fame! Mitchell’s use of modern magical realism to sort of lull the reader …
What have we been up to? Beyond Cataclysm has been… Going to conventions. This Winter we’ve been at Dragonmeet and Airecon! We plan to also be at Tabletop Scotland and UKGE later in the year! Printing cool things! We’ve also released three games! Tyrannosaur Inside, Lucky for None and Bar Fight! Podcast podcast podcast Our …
This episode CM Lowry is talking with author Allen Stroud about House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski in ‘This Book I Read…’ Topics covered include: Holiday reads: getting through more challenging material. Control of print format and process, colours, typefaces and orientation. Fictional videotape commentary of recordings that don’t even exist! Breaking the rules in writing, …
