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Black Sci-Fi & Wangechi Mutu at The Watershed

~ Cheryl

Family Tree - Wangechi Mutu

We had another fine evening of Afrofuturism at The Watershed last night. The event was introduced by Ytasha Womack, inevitably, and by a new voice to me, Ingrid LaFleur. Ingrid is an Afrofuturist art critic, and for me the most interesting things she said were about using Afrofuturism to help with the revitalization of Detroit. Was she at DetCon 1? She should have been.

We began with a short film by the Kenyan artist, Wangechi Mutu. Again I had not heard of her before (except doubtless in passing while reading the art section of Ytasha’s book too quickly). Edson had brought in some books of her work, and I was totally blown away. If you are in London, she has an exhibition on at the moment at Victoria Miro. And if you are not some of the pieces in the exhibition are available on the Guardian website. I note that people often seem to use the word “cyborg” in connection with Mutu’s work. Donna Haraway should be proud.

The film by Mutu was The End of Eating Everything. It is around 8 minutes long. Part of it is available on YouTube. The part of the monster is played by the musician, Santigold.

The main film of the night was Black Sci-Fi, a BBC documentary from 1992 which features Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, Steve Barnes, Mike Sargent and Nichelle Nichols. Chip and Octavia were on fire. I wanted to tweet just about everything they said. Sadly I wasn’t anywhere near fast enough. You can see some clips from the film at this Tor.com post. Unfortunately for you it doesn’t include the best bits in which Chip reads from Dhalgren against a background of deserted and derelict parts of New York. (Of course that does mean that you don’t see how the BBC managed to mis-spell Chip’s name in the titling, but so it goes.)

The Tor.com post says that the film has been lost, but it hasn’t. It is just unobtainable unless you have the sort of access to the BFI archives that The Watershed has. We had a unique opportunity to see an incredibly rare documentary featuring two of science fiction’s greatest writers. And the cinema was almost empty. Well, that’s your fault, Bristol. I saw it, and you didn’t.

The Abominable Crime

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I spent most of Saturday in Bristol. In the afternoon I was at the Arnolfini for a screening of a film called The Abominable Crime. This follows the lives of two gay Jamaicans. Simone is a young lesbian and single mother. When the film opens she has just survived an attempt on her life by homophobic gunmen. Maurice is a lawyer and gay rights activist. When he is outed in the Jamaican press he is determined to return to the island to carry on the fight, even though his husband in Toronto fears for his life.

Simone and Maurice are real people. In Jamaica, being gay can be deadly.

The film was followed by a panel discussion chaired by Roger Griffith, one of the directors of Ujima Radio. Also on the panel was a Jamaican writer, Prof. Thomas Glave, who has won two Lammy Awards. Thomas and Maurice are two of the founders of J-FLAG, the current LGBT rights organization for Jamaica. Thomas and I did a brief slot on the radio last week, and on Saturday I bagged a slightly longer interview that I’ll air on Women’s Outlook when I get a free slot.

From my point of view, the most interesting part of the discussion was the discovery of the Dwayne’s House charity project. Dwayne Jones was a young trans girl from Jamaica. When she was 14 she was thrown out of the family home by her parents. Two years later she was chased through the streets by a mob and beaten to death. The Dwayne’s House project seeks to purchase a building where homeless LGBT kids like Dwayne can have a safe place to sleep. The project also hopes to provide medical care, counseling and education. Details of how to donate can be found here.

By the way, the panel was keen to make clear that while the situation for LGBT Jamaicans is not good, it is not always as bad as you might think from the film and news reports. Just like anywhere else, class makes a huge difference. Also things have got a lot worse over the past few decades. As with Africa, much of that is due to heavy lobbying by rich American religious fundamentalists. Of course the people behind Dwayne’s House are also Christians. Nothing in life is simple.

Today on Ujima – Afrofuturism, Prostate Cancer, Regulating Landlords, Somalia

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Well you can see how busy that was just from the title.

Firstly I had Edson Burton in the studio to talk about the Afrofuturism season at the Watershed. Well, I should have done anyway. What actually happened was that Edson fell through a warp in the space-time continuum and was a bit late. Fortunately my colleague, Tommy Popcorn, had been at the screening of the George Clinton film and was able to talk about George for a while. My thanks to Tommy for filling in so ably. Also I related the story about the Playtex seamstresses who made the Apollo spacesuits (which I got from Hannu Rajaniemi’s Guest of Honor speech at Finncon).

Edson finally made it to the studio and previewed some of the up-coming Afrofuturism material. The item on black superheroes on Saturday sounds good, and obviously I’m looking forward to next Wednesday when they’ll be showing Pumzi, followed by a film about black science fiction writers, including interviews with Chip Delany, Octavia Butler and Steven Barnes. The later will be introduced by Ytasha Womack (live via Skype from Chicago), and I’ve just been writing a web article to go with it.

The second half hour was given over to a young lady called Vanessa from Bristol University who is studying Caribbean men who have had prostate cancer. I discovered the scary fact that as many as 1 in 4 Caribbean men in the UK can expect to be diagnosed with the disease, a much higher percentage than for white or Asian men. No one knows why, and Vanessa’s research is an important part of trying to find an answer so that something can be done about it.

I note in passing that most trans women will have prostates and can therefore get prostate cancer. Most GPs have no idea about that.

You can listen to the first hour of the show here.

For the second hour I handed the mic over to Paulette who had some more political material. First up were a couple of ladies from the City Council who help run a scheme to regulate private landlords. This is obviously great for tenants, but it can also be good for landlords too because going through an approved City Council scheme can be cheaper than using a letting agency.

In the process of doing the interview Paulette and I discovered, to our horror, that it is now mandatory for private landlords to check that anyone they let property to has the right to be resident in the UK.

For the final half hour we welcomed three young people from the Bristol Somali Youth Network. Many of you will have heard the story of Yusra Hussien, the 15-year-old Bristol girl who is believed to have flown to Turkey. The tabloid newspapers have been spinning this as “radicalized Muslim girl flies to join IS”. The story we get from the Somali community in Bristol is very different. The young people of BSYN have been trying hard to give their fellow teenagers a sense of community and belonging, but that must be very hard when so much of the British media is so openly hostile.

Talking of BSYN, they have a wonderful project going at the moment to collect unwanted books and ship them to the library in Mogadishu. Hopefully I will have them back to talk about this in a couple of weeks.

You can listen to the second hour of the show here.

The play list for the show was as follows:

  • Dance Apocalyptic – Janelle Monae
  • Alphabet Street – Prince
  • Children of Productions – Funkadelic
  • Clouds – Prince
  • Our House – Madness
  • Burning Down the House – Talking Heads
  • I Feel Alone – Maryam Mursal
  • Welcome – Maryam Mursal

The track “Clouds” comes from Prince’s new album, Art Official Age. My thanks to Edson and Charlie Jane Anders, both of whom enthused about the album to me. It is a very Afrofutrist piece, telling the story of a Mr. Nelson who is awakened after being in suspended animation for 45 years. One of Prince’s collaborators on the album is Lianne La Havas, a Jamaican-British musician whom Karen Lord tells me I need to listen to. And hey, if Prince thinks she’s good, and so does Karen, that’s good enough for me.

Maryam Mursal is Somalia’s best known musician. Both of the tracks I chose come from her album, The Journey, which tells the tale of the seven-month trek she and her five children undertook to escape from the Somali civil war and find a new home in Europe. The album is co-produced by Simon Emmerson and Martin Russell of Afro-Celt Sound System, and is available from Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records. Peter plays, and sings backing vocals, on it. To find out more about Maryam and the record, go here.

Launching the Mothershed

~ Cheryl

Last night saw the first event of the Afrofuturism season at the Watershed. The main item was a screening of Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise, a rare film about the amazing jazz musician, Sun Ra. The film was preceded by a short discussion involving Edson Burton, the curator of the Watershed events, and two guests from across the pond: Ytasha Womack and Floyd Webb. Sadly they were only able to attend by Skype, and the sound quality wasn’t always great, but I was very happy to get to hear Ytasha at last. I highly recommend her book, Afrofuturism, and am still distraught that it just missed out on being a finalist for Best Related Work this year. I know a lot less about Webb because he works mainly in film, but he certainly knew his black SF.

Sadly I had to leave to catch a train part way through the film. I also missed out on the dance party that was staged after the film by some of my colleagues from Ujima Radio. I’ll also miss out on Courttia Newland’s flash fiction workshop because I’ll be in Cheltenham tomorrow. However, I hope to be at BristolCon’s Fun Palace events on Sunday, and I see that there’s a film about George Clinton in the evening. Also, next Wednesday Edson will be in my studio to talk about Afrofuturism. I can guarantee that there will be plenty of that funky stuff.

October is Science Fiction Month in Bristol

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You should all know about BristolCon by now, but that’s only a small part of the SF-related action that is taking place in Bristol this month.

First up, this coming weekend, we have Bristol’s Fun Palaces event. This is a national project co-directed by Stella Duffy that aims to create a “laboratory of fun” in every town. The Bristol Fun Palace will be science fiction themed. Jo and the crew from BristolCon have been busily helping with the organization. Details of the Sunday events that they are involved with are available on the Bristolcon wesbite. On the Watershed website you can also find details of what is happening on Saturday. Assuming that I’m not totally exhausted after Cheltenham, I hope to be at some of the Sunday events.

If you clicked through to that Watershed link you will see that the place has been renamed Mothershed for the month. That, as you might guess, is because it is also home to an Afrofuturism season, curated by Edson Burton. That kicks off tomorrow with a film about Sun Ra. Apparently there will also be a short introduction beforehand that will feature a Skype appearance by Ytasha Womack. And afterwards the Mothershed will enter party mode courtesy of my colleagues at Ujima Radio. I’ll have Edson on my show next week to talk about some of the other events he has lined up, and about Afrofuturism in general.

I am so proud of Bristol.

Update: And there’s more! On Sunday October 12th, 1:00pm to 4:00pm, the M-Shed is hosting Supercomics Sunday, organized by the Bristol Festival of Literature. The guests are Laura Howell (Beano, Toxic), Tom Plant (Beano), Cavan Scott (Beano, Doctor Who), Rob Williams (2000 AD, Doctor Who, Marvel Comics), Huw Powell (Spacejackers). There will be a pirate workshop, and it is free to attend. Awesome! Details here.

A Well Desereved Award

~ Cheryl

In today’s email was the happy news that this year’s Burbank International Film Festival has given the prize for Best Feature Documentary to Better Things: The Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones. I blogged about the film here and here. Thanks to the crowdfunding campaign, I have a DVD of the film, and I am not in the least bit surprised that it is winning prizes. Maria Paz Cabardo has made a brilliant film about a great artist, and a brilliant film about a trans person. You can buy the DVD here.

Trans Pride – Day 1

~ Cheryl

Today I headed down to Brighton for their annual Trans Pride. The trains, thankfully, more or less behaved themselves, and I got a good chunk of Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon read. I’m loving it thus far.

The only event today was the film festival, which took place at the Duke of York’s Picturehouse. It is a fabulous old building, and claims to be the oldest continually operating, purpose-built cinema in the UK — it opened in 1910.

For those who don’t know, Brighton has a long and honorable history in the movie business. William Friese-Green had a studio here in addition to the one in Bristol. His sometime partner, Alfred Esmé Collings, went on to shoot a number of short films in Brighton in 1896. That includes one with the fabulously Brighton name of Train Arriving at Dyke Station, though sadly that actually refers to a local beauty-spot called Devil’s Dyke, not to any actual dykes.

There is a full history of Brighton’s involvement in films available here.

But enough digression. Back to the evening’s entertainment. The first hour was mainly material from Fox & Lewis’s My Genderation series, much of which was being screened for the first time. The star of the show was undoubtedly a 9-year-old trans boy called Kai who is totally lovable. There were a lot of really moving scenes of trans folk with supportive friends, families and partners. Fox and Lewis have also shot films interviewing their own families. My mum would totally relate to what Fox’s mum says.

The rest of the program was a diverse range of films from around the world, plus some comedy shorts featuring Claire Parker (and at one point guest-staring Lewis as a sexist laborer).

My favorite of the additional material was a Scottish film called James Dean. It is shot entirely in a car as a family — parents plus two teenage children — is about to set off to visit an aunt. One of the children is trying to get her parents to admit that the aunt is a lesbian, but the parents insist that the kids are too young to know what that means. Meanwhile the other child is trying to come out as trans. It is very funny, and brilliantly acted.

It all went very well, and then many of us headed down to the Marlborough. Part of the celebrations this weekend is the launch of Brighton Transformed, a local history of trans people in Brighton. You’ll hear a lot more about that from me on Twitter tomorrow. But as a taster here is a montage of images posted on one of the outside walls of the Marlborough.

Brighton*Transformed display

Girl On Film

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A couple of years ago I was interviewed for something called the Trans*Geek Movie. It is essentially a documentary project about trans people who are involved in geekdom. The project is being run on a shoestring so it is taking a bit of time to come to fruition, but last weekend a preview was shown at GaymerX2, the QUILTBAG gamer conference in San Francisco. Much to my surprise, parts of the interview with me were included. The whole thing is available on YouTube, and my bit starts around 9:40 (though I recommend that you watch all of it).

My first reaction was, of course, “OMG, I look so FAT!!!” That, of course, is my own fault for being so fond of good food, and not exercising enough. However, I seem to look better on film that I do in photos, the voice sounds OK, and most importantly I do not seem to have said anything particularly stupid.

My thanks once again to Mr. B’s Emporium of Reading Delights for allowing me to use their store for the interview.

Wallace & Gromit at M-Shed

~ Cheryl

This is primarily for Bristol folks, but it may also be relevant if you are a huge Wallace & Gromit fan, or are touring the UK this summer.

From May 24th to September 7th the M-Shed will be hosting an exhibition called “Wallace & Gromit from the drawing board” which is a behind the scenes look at the making of the famous films. As you doubtless know, Aardman is based in Bristol. Nick Park and his colleagues have given the museum access to all sorts of goodies including notebooks, props and an actual Oscar. For full details, see the M-Shed website.

First Avenger – Hollywood Wimps Out

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Yesterday I finally got around to watching Captain America: The First Avenger. I know I’m quite late to this, but Cap has never been a favorite character of mine, and I’m not very interested in WWII stories. I finally picked up a copy because a) I had heard a lot of good things about Peggy Carter, and b) the buzz around the new Captain America film has been quite good so I figured I should watch the first one.

From now on I’ll be referring to the film as Captain America: His Part in the Peggy Carter Story. I feel a bit sorry for Chris Evans because Hayley Atwell pretty much stole the movie, except for the scenes with Hugo Weaving in, which of course he owned. I’m not surprised that there is going to be a Peggy Carter TV series.

Following a Twitter conversation with Tade Thompson I checked up on the character of Sharon Carter. It turns out that she was originally Peggy’s younger sister, and then was retconned* to her niece to make the timeline work better.

Peggy aside, my main interest in the film was the appearance of the Howling Commandos. As I said, I’m not big on WWII stories, however, the Howling Commandos are an interesting bunch because they are, in a fumbling 20th Century sort of way, a genuine attempt at diversity. Stan Lee didn’t create a group of American heroes, he drew his characters from several of the Allies. There’s a British character, and a French one. There’s also Gabe Jones who is one of the first African American characters in Marvel, and quite remarkable in terms of the US Army which did not have racially integrated regular units until 1948. The film adds a Japanese-American character, Jim Morita, which is also fairly radical given that most Japanese-Americans had been interned.

So far so good. These characters are all fairly stereotyped, but this is comics and movies we are talking about.

Then I watched the extras, in particular the one about the Howling Commandos, and I realized that something terrible had been done.

The British character in the film is listed as James Falsworth. JJ Feild, who plays the character, says that he goes on the become the costumed hero, Union Jack. That’s not what happens in the comics. James Falsworth is a real Marvel character, and he did take the role of Union Jack. However, he did so during WWI. By WWII he’s an old man. He does try to come out of retirement, but is badly injured on his first mission and hands the role of Union Jack on to his son, Brian.

(By the way, Falsworth’s daughter, Jacqueline, becomes the superhero, Spitfire. As she’s a vampire, she has no time problems and is a prominent character in Paul Cornell’s Captain Britain and MI13 series.)

So why did the film not use Brian Falsworth? I have this sinking feeling it is because he’s gay.

Well, that’s contestable. The Falsworths were created by Roy Thomas in the 1970s for the Invaders comic book. Thomas insists that he did not intend Brian Falsworth and Roger Aubrey to be lovers, and given what I have read of the comic I tend to believe him. This is the closest they came to a romantic moment.

Brian & Roger

However, in more recent comics Brian & Roger have been retconned as lovers, and they are now known as Marvel’s first ever gay couple.

Hollywood couldn’t be being that crass, could they? Well yes, they could. Because you see the Falsworths should not have been in the Howling Commandos at all. There was a British character, but his name was Percival Pinkerton. His nickname was “Pinky”. And yes, he was gay. Stan says so. You could argue that is another retcon, as original comic never explicitly stated his gayness, but you only have to look at how he was introduced to see what Stan had in mind.

Pinky

You’ll also note that JJ Feild’s character in the film has been modeled very clearly on Pinkerton. He looks nothing like any of the Falsworths.

So it seems pretty clear that at some point during the production of the film someone took a decision to re-do the characters so as to avoid two separate gay characters. I don’t blame Marvel for this. They are, after all, perfectly happy to have all sorts of QUILTBAG folks in their comics. It is much more likely to have been someone at Paramount who insisted on it. I am very disappointed in them.

* “Retcon” is short for “Retroactive continuity”. It refers to the practice of writing new stories which appear to re-write the past history of a character.

Some Afrofuturism Links

~ Cheryl

Odysella: Empress of NarOver the Holidays I finally got around to editing the Afrofuturism special I did on Ujima for podcast. It has two songs in it that needed to be removed for copyright reasons. As you may recall, it features Tade Thompson in the studio, plus interviews recorded at World Fantasy with Bill Campbell, Tobias Buckell and Rochita Loenen-Ruiz.

The podcast mentions two specific books that are available in the bookstore: Mothership, and Adventure Rocketship. I’ve also started tagging books as Afrofuturism if they seem to fit the description. You can find all of them here.

You can listen to the podcast of the show here:

The cover illustrating this post is not from a book in the store, it is something that was sent to me for review, a book called Odysella: Empress Of Nar. If you are looking at it and thinking, “yeah, self-published”, well you are right. However, bear in mind that people of color have much greater difficulty selling books to big publishers than white folks. Also, as this post makes clear, author Shirley Hardy-Leonard has a successful career as a playwright and scriptwriter behind her, so she knows what she’s doing. I’m possibly not the best person to review it, if only because my knowledge of hip-hop could be written many times over on Tim Maughan’s smallest fingernail, but hopefully some of you will take a look. For an actual review, go here.

Finally, via the @BlackSciFi Twitter feed, I discovered this IndieGoGo project to crowdfund a science fiction movie in which black folks get to save the planet. Good luck, Earth Squadron, I hope you get made.

Two Crowdfunded Movies

~ Cheryl

First up, the Malaysian queer movie, Beg Siapa, which I blogged about last week now has its crowdfunding appeal live on Indiegogo. If you’d like to help Mien and her team make this movie happen, please do drop them a few bucks. Having followed Glenda Larke’s blog for some time, I know how brave anyone in Malaysia must be to stand up and make such a movie. I want to see them succeed.

Secondly there is an appeal on Kickstarter to make a documentary film about the life of the pioneering black trans activist (and Stonewall riots veteran), Miss Major. I have had the honor of meeting this lady, and she is indeed amazing. Plus she has been doing trans activism for 40 years. Once again, I really want to see this film get made. Please help if you can.

And even if you can’t back either project, please consider re-tweeting the link to this post so that other people who might help can see it.

A Malaysian Queer Film

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One thing I do need to post about, as it is time-sensitive, is the launch of the fundraising campaign for Beg Siapa, a film to be made by queer folks from Malaysia. I met the film’s director, Mien Ly, today and she’s fabulous, a real bundle of energy. There is a launch event in Brighton on Saturday night, and there will be a crowdfunding project soon thereafter. I’ll keep you posted when the latter goes live. Meanwhile you can learn more about the film here.

The Way We Were

~ Cheryl

Over the past year or so I have been watching with interest to see what the stars of My Transsexual Summer have been making of their lives. Most of them were fairly newly into their transition, and I know from experience that a lot of personal development can happen after that. I certainly had no idea where life would take me.

One of the most interesting developments is that Fox and Lewis have set up a film production company that is making short documentaries about trans people. You can find out more about the project, and watch their films, here. The reason I am writing this post, however, is that I specifically wanted to share the new film that they released yesterday. It is called “Tranpa”, and it features a trans man who began his transition back in the 1960s. Some people, of course, did manage to make a success of it back then, but if you approached the medical authorities when you were still legally a minor things could get very bad indeed.

It is good to remember how far we have come.

Zambia’s Space Program Need’s You – RT

~ Cheryl

Here’s some info on a Kickstarter project I have backed that is getting down to the wire:

Afronauts is a short film that follows a group of ragtag Zambian exiles trying to beat America to the moon on the night of the moon landing in 1969! It stars famous albino model Diandra Forrest, Yolonda Ross from HBO’s Treme, and is directed by Frances Bodomo (whose last film Boneshaker premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival). It is also based on a true story, partly funded by the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and backed by a powerhouse creative team. We’re very excited about it!

Time is running out on our Kickstarter and without your help we just have a lot of pretty images on a hard drive. If 500 people can donate $10 by the end of the week, we will be able to pay our crew, pay for sound/music, color correct the film, and submit to film festivals like Sundance, Tribeca, and Cannes. Your contribution to the Kickstarter makes you a part of the Afronauts family and you will receive fun behind-the-scenes updates starting in May!

Personally I recommend the $25 level, which gets you a digital copy of the film. You can pledge here. And yes, it really is based on a true story.

Tim Invents Brizzlewood

~ Cheryl

My friend Tim Maughan has made a short film of the opening scenes of his short story, “Paintwork”. It is a very low budget exercise, so it is all done with stills and animation rather than live action, but it looks fabulous. It has that “mean streets in the rain” look that cyberpunk does so well, but has Tim’s signature feature of having those streets populated by kids with spray cans rather than hackers with expensive electronics. The narration and sound track, done by some of Tim’s friends from the Bristol music scene, is really good too. Hey, and William Gibson liked it, which caused Tim to fangasm spectacularly.

Tim has made one fairly significant change to the story for the film, which had me smiling as I watched it. See if you notice.

There is more information about the people involved in the film at its YouTube page. And of course you can still read the full story for free at Tor.com. The short collection from which “Paintwork” is the title story is still available at the bookstore.

For Your Consideration

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Yesterday I was recording the first episode of Small Blue Planet with my Finnish pals, Jukka & Kisu (it will hopefully be online later this week). I was reminded that Finland is in which a great chance of a Hugo nomination again this year. That’s not just for Hannu Rajaniemi’s The Fractal Prince, which managed to be published in both the UK and US in the same year, so hopefully won’t suffer the same fate as The Quantum Thief, but also for a movie. Bang on cue came the happy news from Australia overnight that Iron Sky had won an AACTA Award (Australia’s answer to the Oscars) for Best Visual Effects. Industry-wise, a Hugo is doubtless not in the same league, but I’m sure that Timo, Jarmo and the crew would be over the dark side of the moon if they got nominated. Let’s have some non-Hollywood movies on the list for a change (even if the big fight will be between Avengers and The Hobbit).

Another category that is perennially in need of voter direction is Graphic Story. The ever-so-helpful Joe Gordon has just published his list of top SF&F graphic novels of 2012. Needless to say, Grandville: Bete Noire will be on my ballot, and I’m keen to get hold of a copy of Saga, which sounds very interesting. The art on Batwoman continues to be phenomenal, and JH Williams III will be on my Best Professional artist ballot again this year, even if the comic doesn’t make the cut.

There are a few other graphic novels you may want to look at. Fables is always delightful, but Lauren Beukes’s run on Fairest is still ongoing so I think that one is for next year. Mike Carey & Peter Gross’s The Unwritten continues to be first on my list. The latest book, Tommy Taylor and the War of Words, continues the phenomenally high standard. Paul Cornell’s Saucer Country is another very strong bet. And the book I most want to see is Pachyderme by Frederik Peeters, translated from French by Edward Gauvin. The blurb describes it thus: “Imagine a David Lynch film co-written by Chuck Palahniuk, Jean-Paul Sartre and Milan Kundera.” Check out the FPI review for more details.