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Thanks again to those who have helped support my Cancer Research Wales fundraising bid for the Cardiff Half Marathon. With the run just three days away, I'm feeling good and ready for the challenge. There's still time to tip some money in for CRW:

https://cardiffhalf25.enthuse.com/pf/alastair-reynolds

Cheers,

Al

 Another slickly-produced video for your perusal, this one looking at the Eagle and the fantastic MPC kit. I was just about to go out and do a 14K training run.

Chris Foss's 1973 illustration for The Early Asimov, which appears to have influenced the design of the Eagle.

Hope this is of interest. Once again, any donations to my Cancer Research Wales half-marathon fundraiser will be greatly appreciated.

https://cardiffhalf25.enthuse.com/pf/alastair-reynolds

 A little video about the Aoshima 1/350th scale model of Fireflash, the iconic atomic-powered airliner as featured in the opening episode of Thunderbirds.

Thanks for the comments on the last video; more of the same here except I've moved the camera a wee bit closer. It's all very amateur hour but it's just to get a feel for how I like the medium. The colour cast is a bit weird; either I messed with the camera settings by mistake or it's to do with moving the camera a bit closer. At least I'm not ...

 I thought I'd have a dabble with some video content, this time talking about the Starship Enterprise model on my writing desk:

If you've enjoyed the content, let me know, and while I'm here, there's still time to help me with my Cardiff Half Marathon fundraising for Cancer Research Wales:

https://cardiffhalf25.enthuse.com/pf/alastair-reynolds

Cheers, Al

 Handing in a book always entails some mixed feelings. There's a general sense of relief that a substantial project is off the desk for the time being, meaning that at least a month or two can be turned over to something else. In fact I haven't been into my office since sending in the Merlin book, although I was mildly tempted to go in and do some tidying up this afternoon (I didn't). There's also a period of mental and physical exhaustion, and subsequent recuperation, which doesn't really hit y...

 A few hours ago I hit send on my next book, provisionally entitled MERLIN'S WAY. It's the one I've been talking about for some time, a gathering-up of the four "Merlin" novellas I wrote over about twenty years. But, it's ended up being something more than that. My original plan had been to stitch together the stories with a bit of linking material, and maybe rejig the chronologically-final piece a little to smooth over some bumps in point of view. The more I worked on the project, though, the m...

 Hi folks, yes it's me back again with another plea for your generosity as we move into the final couple of months before the Cardiff Half.

Last year I ran on behalf of Alzheimer's UK and thanks to the kindness and deep pockets of my supporters, including many who read this blog, we managed to raise just shy of two thousand pounds. Earlier this year we also did well with my RED January challenge for the Mind over Mountains mental health charity, in which I did a hundred days of consecutive runnin...

 I'll shortly be rattling the can for my Cardiff Half Marathon cancer research sponsorship, but in the meantime here are a few new things worthy of mention.

The two Revelation Space short story collections I mentioned last time are now out in the world, and it's very nice to see them. As indicated, these gather all the stories previously compiled in the two collections Galactic North and Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days, as well as the material I've written since those two books: Monkey Suit, Open an...

 Things are moving in the direction of publication for HALCYON YEARS, I'm pleased to report, although I don't yet have a reliable publication date to share. I'd take September with a modicum of salt as I've yet to see any cover art or copy, and not much tends to happen in publishing during the traditionally slow summer months - although I could be wrong! I've completed the proofreading stage, though, which is generally the last point at which I have any real input into the text, and we've select...

 If you'd asked me to read a 600-plus page novel about a Harlem furniture salesman trying to walk a line between the crooked and straight worlds, I might not have felt I had the stamina. But I blasted through these two recent books back to back, and I think they've cemented Colson Whitehead as my favorite contemporary American writer.

They're not exactly novels. Each book takes a decade as its broad theme and traces the story of Ray Carney through three novella-sized capers that are equal parts c...