Author of The Red Men, If Then and The Destructives: Matthew De Abaitua will be taking part in the Essex Book Festival by holding a creative writing workshop! But what’s even cooler than seeing Matthew spill forth wisdom, is that it’s taking place in a creepy, Cold War, underground nuclear bunker which just screams dystopia – only slightly different to where he lectures at the University of Essex right?! So, if you’re in the London area (UK),
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Jeff Noon & Matthew De Abaitua do the BSFA Meet Up!
On Wednesday August 23rd two of our most fantastically cerebral authors will meet minds, bodies and literary learnings at the BSFA meet up in London.
Matthew de Abaitua, author of The Destructives, If Then, and the The Red Men (which we’ll be releasing in the US in November!) will be interviewing Jeff
Author Appearance: Matthew De Abaitua to WoW
Matthew De Abaitua will be heading up to Liverpool Saturday (May 13) to take part in a panel as part of the Writing On the Wall festival.
The event is called Tax the Robots and… well the festival programmers can do a much better job of explaining the day than we can, so without further ado:
The term “robot” was coined by Czechoslovakian playwright Karel Capek in 1920 — “robota” being a Czech word
Investigate a Destructive for Free – Free Sample from The Destructives by Matthew De Abaitua
Step into a future of humanity with a free sample from Mattew De Abaitua’s distinctive and thoughtful novel, The Destructives.
Matthew will be at Innominate in Birmingham this coming weekend, where he’ll be taking part in various panels and holding a reading, so, if you have a membership be sure to pop along to the Salisbury Room of the Metropole Saturday night at 7PM to hear his dulcet tones.
Here’s the synopsis:
Matthew De Abaitua Writes Short for New Scientist
Author, lecturer and all-round ridiculously intelligent man Matthew De Abaitua is lending his voice to New Scientist, with a festive short story to be featured in its December issue.
The story takes place in the same brilliant post-emergence universe as Matthew’s If Then and The Destructives, finally bringing readers to the University of the Sun (the new home of the AI ’emergences’, far away from their sort-of parents, humanity).
While you’re eagerly waiting
Author Series at Brunel: Matthew De Abaitua
The wonderful Matthew De Abaitua, author of the extraordinary and thought-provoking If Then and The Destructives, will be appearing at Brunel University in London tomorrow (Oct 26) as part of the university’s The Writers Series. (more…)
Matthew De Abaitua at Waterstones Liverpool One
Author of If Then and The Destructives, Matthew De Abaitua will be heading up to Waterstones Liverpool One on Tuesday, July 26 for an event.
Matthew will be chatting with Andy Sawyer (Librarian of the Science Fiction Foundation Collection at the University of Liverpool), as well as giving a short reading and signing books. The evening will last from 6:30PM – 8:30PM.
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Book Launch: The Destructives by Matthew De Abaitua
We’re having another book launch, this time for Matthew De Abaitua‘s new literary sci-fi, The Destructives!
If you’re London based come and join us on Tuesday, March 8 from 6.30pm at the Broadway Bookshop in Hackney. We’re sure Matthew can be persuaded to do a reading, and there will be a Q&A session, too. Nibbles and other refreshments will be on offer, if that tempts you even further. More →
Matthew De Abaitua, Welcome to the Robot Army!
Angry Robot Books is delighted to announce the signing of a World English two-book deal with Arthur C. Clarke award-nominated Matthew De Abaitua, acquired from Sarah Such of Sarah Such Literary Agency.
The first of these two novels, If Then, is a novel in two parts, bringing the First World War to an English town of the near-future, where an economic collapse has left the citizens under the control of an algorithm known as the Process. If Then will be published in September 2015. Matthew’s second SF title, The Destructives described as Mad Men in space, will be