Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Forbidden Planet is pleased to announce a double signing by Jon Courtenay Grimwood and Kate Griffin for their new titles The Fallen Blade and The Neon Court the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London SE1 0UP on Thursday 3rd February from 6 – 7pm. The Fallen Blade takes us to Venice, ... (more)in the early 15th century and at the height of its power. A simpleton Duke, unable to rule effectively, has a fifteen-year-old cousin stolen by Mamluk pirates. And his chief assassin has found a creature of mystery – a slight, swift boy, drinking blood from a slit throat. A boy who would make a perfect apprentice. In The Neon Court, Matthew Swift has even more problems. A dead woman is trying to kill him and the city itself is under attack from a force of unimaginable power. As if trying to stay one step ahead of an assassin and juggling magical politics weren't enough, he must also find a way to defeat a primal threat from humanity's darkest nightmares. Or there may not be a London left to fight over.

Run by fans, for fans, Eastercon is the UK’s largest annual speculative fiction convention, covering science fiction, fantasy and horror. As a general convention it embraces SF in all its manifestations from the literary to art, film, television, live performance, comics and role playing games - find ... (more)out more on the ‘What is Eastercon?‘ page. LX will be the 60th Eastercon and will take place over Easter weekend, 10-13 April, 2009. There’ll be all sorts of different elements to keep you informed and entertained.

Three day SF & fantasy convention, 31 Oct--2 Nov.