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07 November 2018Drawing Stories Returns to the Stove
Drawing Stories returned to the Stove Cafe this evening and Mark and Steve welcomed a keen group of illustrators. They learned some basic drawing skills that will aid sequential art projects and started into drawing props for stories.
You can still join the class for the remaining five lessons by coming along to the Stove on a Wednesday night at 7pm.
01 November 2018Shoreline of Infinity wins British Fantasy Society Award 2018 for best magazine
Guest post by Noel Chidwick
BFS Award for best magazine bookending a pile of Shoreline of Infinities
The award was presented at the weekend at the annual British Fantasy Convention held this year in Chester.
This was our first nomination, and we were up against some pretty tough competition; we are, as you can imagine, dead chuffed.
Shoreline of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine was launched in July 2015 and to win the award for Britain’s best science fiction/fantasy magazine in such a short time is an honour indeed.
We’re based in Edinburgh, but the magazine is read world-wide and it’s a great privilege to present Scotland at its finest in genre fiction. Shoreline of Infinity is truly international: we’re proud to showcase not only Scottish creative talent, but also writers and artists from all over the world.
The team behind Shoreline of Infinity are: myself, Noel Chidwick – co-founder, Editor-in-Chief and Editor; Mark Toner – co-founder, Art Director; and Russell Jones – Deputy Editor and Poetry Editor.
More than that, we have a great team of volunteers working with us, including Pippa Goldschmidt and Caroline Grebbell who edited Issue 11, Samantha Dolan as Reviews Editor and Monica Burns, Iain Maloney, Andrew J Wilson and Jo McLaughlin all in various capacities.
We’re also grateful to everyone who has pitched in as submissions readers and proof readers.
We’ve been blessed with great stories, poems, artwork, reviews, articles, interviews from talented writers and artists, new and not so new, so thanks to you all for your contributions.
And thanks to our readers and subscribers who have kindly offered their groats in exchange for our words and pictures. Long may that continue.
A puzzled Editor still wondering what the heck just happened there? pic: Ruth EJ Booth
On a personal note, Shoreline of Infinity is my thank you to Scotland and the people of Scotland for being so welcoming to me when I came to study and live in Edinburgh back in 1981, and for being a wonderful, nurturing place for developing new ideas. The spirit of the Scottish Enlightenment lives on.
—Noel Chidwick,
Co-founder,
Editor-in-Chief and Editor
of Shoreline of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine
22nd October 2018.
Full list of winners: http://www.britishfantasysociety.org/news/british-fantasy-awards-2018-winners/
About Shoreline of Infinity
Shoreline of Infinity publish a quarterly science fiction magazine featuring new short stories, poetry, artwork, reviews interviews and articles. Writers we’ve published include: Iain M Banks, Jane Yolen, Nalo Hopkison, Charles Stross, Eric Brown, Ken MacLeod, Aliette de Bodard, Ada Palmer, Gary Gibson, Jeannette Ng, Adam Roberts, Jo Walton, Pippa Goldschmidt, Adrian Tchaikovsky. We’re equally proud of all the new writers we’ve published and helped to launch.
Shoreline of Infinity also hosts our highly regarded Event Horizon – a monthly live science fiction cabaret in Edinburgh, and is soon to launch a podcast – Shoreline of Infinity’s Soundwave, featuring interviews, audio dramas and readings.
Shoreline of Infinity science fiction magazine is published quarterly in paperback and digital formats and is available from our own website and all good bookshops worldwide.
Shoreline of Infinity website: www.shorelineofinfinity.com
Twitter: @shoreinf
30 June 2018Remembering Harlan Ellison
We lost one of the greats of Science Fiction this week as Harlan Ellison dreamed his way into that great multiverse that he tapped into so well in his working life.
He was a great writer, novellist and editor, and a sharp critic, always outspoken and with an opinion to share, whether it was wanted or not.
This coming week I will be remembering Harlan Ellison with some of the gems of my DVD library. He contributed the amazing Demon With A Glass Hand to the second season of Outer Limits and I look forward to enjoying Robert Culp's gripping performance. Also in that same season I will be visiting again Michael Ansara's future warrior in Ellison's Soldier.
Time travel was obviously a big topic with Ellison. One of the great highlights of his screenwriting career was undoubtedly in Star Trek's first season: the intelligent and characterful City on the Edge of Forever. Joan Collins compassionate and forward looking social worker seems like a gift to humanity but the possible futures that her life or death could lead to give Kirk, Spock and McCoy a painful and human dilemma to solve.
And let's not forget that J Michael Straczynski's trully excellent series Babylon 5 benefited from Harlan Ellison's guiding intellect throughout.
This is just the screenwriting stuff. Go and read some Ellison books too. Your attitudes towards the Universe may be usefully challenged.
