Monthly Archives: November 2009

Getting unpublished

By Matt Hill | Published: November 19, 2009
Let’s get dramatic. In July, my book was unpublished. It fell from the pre-order listings of a dozen online book shops, was deleted from Nielsen Bookscan. The galley proofs were unbound, de-covered and bleached back to white. Reps got in their cars after really successful meetings with booksellers — who liked and loved and wanted to see [...]
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Suit fitting

By Matt Hill | Published: November 9, 2009
Look, me and suits go like penis and blenders. It seems foolish and feels worse. Suits, they’re for real men – men running for trains with cummerbunds flapping behind like some kind of heterosexual vapour trail. Half the problem is they’re far too hard to get right. You see all these men in suits and you know [...]
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Science fiction, technology and Twitter

By Matt Hill | Published: November 2, 2009
If science fiction’s not dead, it’s not quite the same now we’ve bombed the moon. After all, we’ve done space travel and beaten communism. We got to the stars, and went past plopping pulp heroes on Mars when we crashed robots into it. We worried about plugging ourselves into each other before the internet; feared [...]
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