Glasgow pals, I’ve got one more event before the end of this month. You may know Jason Heller as the former Hugo award-winning editor of Clarkesworld, writer about pop culture for everyone from Rolling Stone to NPR, or author of Taft 2012 and numerous other short stories. Bringing all this together is Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded, his new book about the connection between 70s pop, such as Bowie, T-Rex, Roxy Music, Hendrix, and the science fiction luminaries of the period, such as Stanley Kubrick, Philip K. Dick, Ursula Le Guin, J. G. Ballard and more. Happily, it combines two of my favourite things — progressive music and SF — and has some delightful anecdotes about, for example, Hawkwind and Michael Moorcock.
All of which explains why I’m so delighted to be helping Jason launch this book next Tuesday 30th October. Join us from 6:30pm at Waterstones Argyle Street, and don’t forget to click the link below to buy your tickets.