Event Report
Sean ‘Midnight Bell’ Walsh, Herr Matthew Coleman and A. Stevens. 3:AM reviews editor Lee Rourke reports from the Social Disease social / Straight From the Fridge 1st birthday bash held last week as part of London Lit Plus: I walked all the way to the venue for Heidi James’ Social Disease Social (both a celebration […]
All Things Spatial
Hot on the back of the acquisition of the US rights to his Tintin and the Secret of Literature by Soft Skull Press, Tom McCarthy‘s new novel Men in Space is out in September. You can read an excerpt over at the main 3:AM site but here’s publisher Alma’s blurb: “Set in a Central Europe […]
Excerpt: Men in Space
His buzzer rings two more times while he’s on the finishing stage, but he ignores it. It’s too delicate now; there’s no room for mistakes. You only get one go on the halo, the text and the panel borders. Ivan consults Klárá’s list for the egg/water ratio and finds it’s — no, that can’t be right: one-to-one! So rich: the orange swallows up the cadmium red, then the red ochre, then the terra verte without changing, and it’s only when he stirs it round in the compartment that it takes on the scarlet tone of the original.
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