I spent large parts of the Easter weekend working, because that’s sometimes what you have to do when you are self-employed and have clients who live in countries that don’t celebrate Easter (or, indeed, weekends). The rest of the time I spent having a birthday, which involved good food, good wine, and movies. Some stuff apparently happened in the science fiction community over the weekend, and one of those things was that my friend Gareth L. Powell became joint-winner of the BSFA Award for Best Novel. The winning book was Ack-Ack Macaque, which of course was out last year. However, in December 2013 I got to interview Gareth about the follow-up, Hive Monkey, which had just launched. That was on Women’s Outlook, of course, but seeing as Gareth is now hot property I decided it would be a good idea to podcast that interview. You can listen to it below.

During the podcast we mention the BristolCon Fringe event at which Gareth read extracts from Hive Monkey. You can listen to that below. As it involves the monkey, it has an explicit tag ;-).