The new Bantam Spectra edition of The Etched City is now on the shelves, with a very gorgeous cover.

The Serbian edition, too, is out. This is the first foreign translation of the novel, for which I extend many thanks to Mia and Zoran Živković. The cover preserves in close-up the cover of the Prime edition, which is now out of print.

The Etched City is the book on the slab for January at the sffworld fantasy book club forum.

Alsiso from The Alsiso Project (in which all the stories are titled Alsiso , more or less) is nominated for an Aurealis Award. I’ll be going up to Brisbane this weekend, 22nd January, for the awards ceremony and to catch up with the folks up there.

An early story, The Art of Dying, has been given a new home at Infinity Plus.

Why I love The Dead: How Richard Calder Continued a Young Lady’s Education.

I talk with Bob Millington at very cool site P.H.U.K.