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My Encounter with “The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls”
In a small, secretive little plaza in the Montmartre district of Paris can be found a life-sized statue that is known to many native French, but is little known elsewhere. It is an unusual statue,...
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Here’s to You, Mr. Invader
Art meets 1980s pop culture in the urban art perpetrated by the French artist known only as Invader. This artist, whose work I first encountered on a recent visit to Paris—the place he first began—goes...
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Last Polka in Paris: Babayaga by Toby Barlow
Once upon a time, I went to Paris, France. I confess I expected it to be something special—a romantic getaway I’d remember forever—but to my dismay, what I found was a pretty city, and while I won’t...
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Aliette de Bodard Shatters Paris
Like Gollancz’s Gillian Redfearn, “I’ve long admired Aliette [de Bodard]’s writing,” as I asserted in this early edition of the Short Fiction Spotlight. So the news that the aforementioned...
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Conclave of Angels: The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard
Hands up if you’ve heard of Aliette de Bodard. Good. That’s a whole lot of hands. Hands down, however, if you’ve never actually read her. As I suspected; hardly half as many. But don’t feel bad, folks....
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Vive la Révolution! Dream Paris by Tony Ballantyne
London has had a tough time of it in recent years, in literature and to a lesser extent in life: it’s rioted and rebelled; it’s been burned, bombed and buried; it’s risen to great heights and,...
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Rearranging Angels: Revealing The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard
In the conclusion of my rave of a review, I spoke of The House of Shattered Wings as emblematic of an intelligence and an elegance as rare and precious as angel essence. It was, in a word, a wonder,...
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Under a Red Reign: The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard
The second Dominion of the Fallen novel sees Aliette de Bodard return to the city of down-on-their-luck divinities she depicted so delicately in The House of Shattered Wings in the company of a cast of...
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Five SFF Books Set in the City of Light
I spent eighteen months after university working in Paris, and ever since then the City of Light and the fiction it inspires have been close to my heart. Paris has always been a magnet for artists,...
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