Literary Bit of the Day: Ken McLeod

Scifi dimensions has a podcast interview with Ken McLeod http://www.scifidimensions.com/podcast/2008/07/14/the-scifidimensions-podcast-11/
I’m glad I found it as I somehow had missed that he had a new book out. I happen to read this McLeod’s blog, too, although it is not updated very often, but he hadn’t pimped the book there that I noticed (I have been busy this summer but still!).

It seems it is another one of his near future thrillers - I liked his far fetched books better, but he’s a very enjoyable writer in any mode (as long as you are open minded about speculative politics, that is).

While on the subject of speculative politics, or political scifi (usually thrillers), here’s a nice article at the Huffington Post about a selection of them which came out this summer, by another good author and editor, Jeff Vandermeer - here’s the article. The only one I had heard about is Cory Doctorov’s, but I will have to look them up.

To think Jeff Vandermeer was once so little known I got an email from him for just mentioning his book on my wishlist here… I think he lost track of who mentions his books nowadays. I havent read anything by him in a while, he seems to focus on editing, or I missed the books like I missed McLeod’s…

I think I will request some of these from the library, give these authors a boost