The End of Time: 10th Century Vikings in France and Wales Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury, London EC2V 7HH Wednesday, 1 April 2015 from 14.00 to 15.00 (BST) Tracey Warr will talk about the history behind her new novel, The Viking Hostage, set in late 10th century France and Wales, weaving together the stories of three women…
Category: Fiction
Science Fiction and Real Science
Just posted a blog on the Zooetics website on the relationship between actual technological research and development and fictional technologies such as teleportation, telekinesis, and galactic language translators, or J.G. Ballard’s bio-engineered plants, insects, houses and clothes in Vermilion Sands. I’m compiling a list of sources for fictional technologies and future worlds relating to The Anthropocene. Your…
Vikings at Tenby Library this Saturday
On Sat 15 Nov 2.30pm I am talking about the history behind my new novel, The Viking Hostage. The novel is a weave of researched history and imagined stories. Half of the tale takes place on a Welsh island off the coast at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, a fictional mix of the real islands of Caldey and…