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Borders evening
Sep. 13th, 2005 11:01 amPat Cadigan interviewed China Mieville and Paul McAuley last night. We met up in the Borders' Starbucks and had a conversation about skin products - I prefer Estee Lauder, for the record, but a leading male SF writer swears by Kiehls.
Mark Roberts during the course of the conversation, bemused: "Tell me, am I actually AWAKE right now?"
Then both authors read extracts and China re-enacted a comic book story - very well, in fact. The ensuing interview ranged over such topics as short story writing versus novels, and the secret geography of London - something that interests me greatly and interests Paul McA as well.
Then we went to the Ben Crouch and the conversation veered wildly out of control onto whether anyone really masturbates to works of literature. I'm afraid I shattered China's innocence by informing him that cats sometimes eat their kittens as well as removing the afterbirth, nature being a harsh if remarkable phenomenon. And the table found it had something in common in reverse seasonal affective disorder - ie. none of us like summer but we get much happier as the year winds down into the cold and dark. It's possibly an academic thing, possibly not.
Mark Roberts during the course of the conversation, bemused: "Tell me, am I actually AWAKE right now?"
Then both authors read extracts and China re-enacted a comic book story - very well, in fact. The ensuing interview ranged over such topics as short story writing versus novels, and the secret geography of London - something that interests me greatly and interests Paul McA as well.
Then we went to the Ben Crouch and the conversation veered wildly out of control onto whether anyone really masturbates to works of literature. I'm afraid I shattered China's innocence by informing him that cats sometimes eat their kittens as well as removing the afterbirth, nature being a harsh if remarkable phenomenon. And the table found it had something in common in reverse seasonal affective disorder - ie. none of us like summer but we get much happier as the year winds down into the cold and dark. It's possibly an academic thing, possibly not.
