Richard Swan
The Book of Koli by Mike Carey - Review
A Riddley Walker-esque post apocalyptic sci-fi but this time the clueless protagonist has an insane Genki girl tamagotchi companion from...
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Richard Swan
- Nov 2, 2021
- 3 min
Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville - Review
I’m embarrassingly new to Bas Lag. I’m no stranger to Mieville’s works — Embassytown remains one of the best science fiction novels I’ve...
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Richard Swan
- Sep 24, 2021
- 5 min
The Death of Grass, by John Christopher: Review
I first came across this book a little while ago. It looked like a nice, short, self-contained piece of fiction, written in the 1950s at...
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Richard Swan
- Sep 9, 2021
- 3 min
The Dying Squad by Adam Simcox - Review
Dying is hell; solving your own murder is purgatory. All right! Just finished this last night, after having rattled through the last 50...
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Richard Swan
- Aug 25, 2021
- 2 min
Pariah, by Dan Abnett: Short Review
This is the first book in the third trilogy of Dan Abnett’s Inquisitorial “trilogy of trilogies”, the first two being Eisenhorn and...
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Richard Swan
- Aug 23, 2021
- 2 min
Empire of the Wolf #2: Progress Update 23/08
I recently hit about 130k on the first draft. I’m doing something I haven’t done before with this draft; I’m actually not going to write...
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Richard Swan
- Jul 22, 2021
- 1 min
Empire of the Wolf #2: Progress Update
I hit 120,000 words on the first draft of book 2 last night. Progress is slowing thanks to a lack of planning for these final chapters; I...
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Richard
- May 16, 2020
- 1 min
Exciting news!
You may remember, my legions of followers, that I mentioned I was writing a novel called "Emperor's Justice" and that I didn't want to...
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Richard
- Oct 22, 2019
- 2 min
Where have I been?
In the time-honoured tradition of blogs everywhere, I've let this fall by the wayside. This is because whilst I have been working on a...
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Richard
- Jun 13, 2019
- 7 min
The Warmaster, Dan Abnett: Review
I think I’ve said this multiple times over the course of my blog posts, but I’ve been reading the Gaunt’s Ghosts series for about 15...
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Richard
- Nov 13, 2018
- 2 min
Earth Remembers!
I never really did a proper announcement for the (Amazon Kindle) release of Earth Remembers. Sadly, writing about WW2 in spaaaace where...
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Richard
- Oct 25, 2018
- 1 min
Nearly there...
Earth Remembers is nearly finished; I have the artwork and I'm currently editing the penultimate chapter. I actually still have to write...
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Richard
- Sep 19, 2018
- 1 min
Earth Remembers: Quick Progress Update
So draft one is done at around 66,000 words. I expect this to increase to about 70 / 75,000 with the first redraft. I'm about a 3rd of...
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Richard Swan
- Aug 16, 2018
- 6 min
Eath Remembers - Snippet and update
Still going, very slowly the last month or so thanks to my real life day job getting squarely in the way. However made some decent...
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Richard
- Jul 10, 2018
- 1 min
Earth Remembers - Update
Quick update - tipped 51,000ish words. Slow progress at the moment due to various non-writing-related factors, but I am pleased with the...
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Richard
- Jun 7, 2018
- 3 min
Earth Remembers: Snippet
Blasting out the words this week. Approaching 40k all in. Here's another excerpt to keep those appetites whetted--as usual presented...
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Richard
- May 29, 2018
- 1 min
Earth Remembers - still going
Still getting on with this - May has been filled with holidays and other social events which have really eaten into my writing time (I...
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