Tag: Science Fiction

Story Casting.

Posted on by Neal Asher

Just got this contact on Myspace…

Can you supply a movie cast for the Polity novels? I’ll
bet your fans can… Hello, Neal.

We have a fun, free website (www. storycasting. com) where readers can create and post a “fantasy cast” for their favorite fiction, and we’ve put your books on our site, ready for casting!

Readers select a work they’ve read, choose main characters, and then fill the roles with current movie and TV stars. We also offer a special free “author account”, where authors come on the site, cast their own works “authoritatively”, and then send their fans to cast. Each cast is a vote for an actor in that role, and with each cast the favorites rise to the top.

We’ve put all your books on our site, plus links to your website and Amazon. Go take a look at the site, see what authors and readers are doing, and maybe try it out. If you’d like your free author account, so you can cast your books (Pat Rothfuss did), let me know, and we’ll get you set up.

Additionally, we are giving away free “CAST THIS BOOK” bookmarkers to our authors, to use as freebies during signings and appearances. If you email me, I will send a JPG of the front and back, so you can see what they look like. Just let us know how many you can use between now and June, and we’ll ship them to you.

We hope you enjoy the site, and decide to join the Storycasting community of casting authors.

Regards,

Jeff Reid

“for the movie in your mind”

Writing Update.

Posted on by Neal Asher

Righto, I’ve finished the initial editing of Orbus and now await its return from the copy editor. Next, I’ve written an article for the BSFA, The British Science Fiction Association, which is
…currently producing a series of special pamphlets for its members. Previous pamphlets include a small press sampler.’ Martin Lewis would like to produce one consisting of brief articles of SF writers on SF films. The idea is that each contributor writes an 750 word piece on a SF film which means something special to them. It might be your favourite film, it might be a guilty pleasure, it might be a film that was your gateway into the world of science fiction. I would be happy for contributors to use the broadest possible definition of science fiction and to be as popularist or obscure as they wished.
Bearing this in mind I chose Aliens, which is certainly one of my favourite films and which I might have described as a ‘guilty pleasure’ where it not for the fact I’m not pretentious enough to feel guilty about anything I enjoy. You certainly won’t get one of those film lists from me including something French with subtitles, or utterly obscure, or both, and the words ‘noir’ or ‘surreal’ will not be in evidence.
Next on the agenda is getting back to writing the ‘Owner’ story which still doesn’t really have a title. Presently I’m approaching 90,000 words, but I’ve been knocking the hell out of the story changing it from 1st person to 3rd, expanding the scale of the scenery and the scale of the problems faced by the somewhat nasty hero.
Back to work now.

Loft Library C to G

Posted on by Neal Asher


Here’s a random shot of my loft library and you’ve got Cherryh to Gemmel, or rather Graves (there are a few none SFF books scattered through here). Seeing this I’m reminded of past reading joys, like the Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld books, the easy reading of Alan Dean Foster and the sadly missed David Gemmel. In fact every book here has been a reading pleasure. Books don’t get to stay on my shelves if they’re just mediocre. I’m guessing Bob Lock will quite like these shelves, as will Gary Gibson (not sure where I’ve put Stealing Light, Gary, but it will end up there). Nor do the numerous titles missing here that I read from the library.

I haven’t put every picture up because there’s loads of them, and I thought it might be fun to let you suggest a writer, then I’ll find the picture that covers that writer’s portion of the alphabet…