Literary Festivals

A blog dedicated to news, reviews and thoughts on literary festivals around the world. Book Festivals, Readers Festivals, Writers Festivals, Literary Festivals, the names and forms are diverse. Disclosure: I served on the Steering Committee of the Singapore Writers Festival 2005. Enjoy!

Friday, July 08, 2005

Stripped Books - Neil Gaiman at the Nebula Awards

Sorry just saw this wonderful report-in-comics of Neil Gaiman's speech at the 2005 Nebula Awards. One of the points he makes, a meme that has been going around, is that "today's contemporary fiction is yesterday's near-future sci-fi (only slightly weirder and with no obligation to be convincing or consistent)." Think Cloud Atlas.

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