Adventure Rocketship! is a new magazine in book
form steeped in science fiction and geek culture. Mixing
fiction, interviews and essays, its subject is nothing
less than the future. Each issue of Adventure
Rocketship! will explore a specific theme, with the
first issue - Let's All Go To The Science Fiction Disco
- focusing on the intersection between music, SF and the
counterculture. That means, among other subjects, we'll
be looking at how JG Ballard invented post-punk music
(sort of - ), the curious and enduring appeal of Rush's
magnum concept opus 2112, the strange vistas of cities
daubed with tomorrow's digital street art and David
Bowie, the alien connection...We'll be talking to writer
and sometime musician Michael Moorcock, three-times
Clarke Award winner China Mieville, and counterculture
troublemaker and SF novelist Mick Farren. Essayists
include David Quantick (Radio 2's The Blaggers Guide),
BSFA Award winner Jon Courtenay Grimwood, and comics
writer Rob Williams (Marvel, 2000AD). We'll have new
stories from World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar,
Liz Williams, Martin Millar and Tim Maughan.
Retro-themed jacket art is by Stanley Donwood, famous
for his covers for Radiohead. In forthcoming issues,
Adventure Rocketship! will range across subjects as
diverse as sex, dissent and something called denimpunk,
whatever that might be. Adventure Rocketship! will
initially be available in a limited-edition print run
and as an ebook. It will be promoted with special author
events. Adventure Rocketship! is edited by Jonathan
Wright, a journalist who has contributed to SFX
magazine, the UK's largest-circulation science fiction
magazine, for more than a decade.
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