{"id":95508,"date":"2017-03-10T08:59:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T08:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=95508"},"modified":"2017-03-10T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T09:00:56","slug":"see-charlie-jane-anders-and-brian-catling-talk-dark-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/see-charlie-jane-anders-and-brian-catling-talk-dark-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"See Charlie Jane Anders and Brian Catling talk dark fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are huge fans of Charlie Jane Anders’ incredible All The Birds In The Sky<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and Brian Catling’s stunning\u00a0The Vorrh<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, so the fact that the two authors will be in conversation to talk dark fantasy is very exciting indeed.<\/p>\n

Anders and Catling will be talking at Waterstones Piccadilly on Monday 20th March<\/a> at 7pm as part of the Post-Apocalyptic Book Club.<\/p>\n

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In case you need a refresher, or if you haven’t yet got around to reading these authors, here’s a quick synopsis of All The Birds In The Sky<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

“Patricia is a witch who can communicate with birds. Laurence is a mad scientist and inventor of the two second time machine. As teenagers they gravitate towards one another, sharing in the horrors of growing up weird.<\/p>\n

When they later reconnect as adults, Laurence is an engineering genius living in near-future San Francisco, trying to escape a planet falling apart with technological intervention.<\/p>\n

As they each take sides in a cataclysmic war between science and magic, Laurence and Patricia find themselves trying to make sense of life, sex and adulthood on the brink of the apocalypse.”<\/p>\n

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And here’s the synopsis for The Erstwhile<\/em><\/strong>, the second book in Catling’s The Vorrh<\/em><\/strong> trilogy.<\/p>\n

“The Vorrh is a vast unmapped and very mysterious jungle in Africa. No-one comes out of it in one piece.<\/p>\n

Survivors report strange, mind-bending phenomena and horrific monsters. It is rumoured that the Garden of Eden still exists somewhere in the middle of it.<\/p>\n

In The Erstwhile it transpires that some angels have escaped Eden and the Vorrh and are living in hiding in London, some in disguise as lunatics in Bedlam, one as a mutilated dog. It is also revealed that William Blake, a character in these novels, in interacting with these angels.”<\/p>\n

For ticket information, visit the Waterstones page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t read Anders and Catling, we recommend that you do so as quickly as possible, and this is sure to be something that you don’t want to miss.<\/p>\n

Keep up with the latest genre news with the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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