I've been so busy recently that it's been difficult to find the time to update this blog, so here's another quick video. What an amazing bird. If David Attenborough hadn't been narrating this, I'd be tempted to think it was fake.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006
Friday, November 10, 2006
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Some More Reviews
From Publishers Weekly (I don't have a link because I think you need to subscribe):
Campbell sets his stunning debut fantasy in Deepgate, a town wreathed in chains that keep it hanging suspended over a bottomless abyss, peopled by worshippers of Lord Ulcis, the god of chains, and tormented by a mad angel named Carnival. The author, who was a video game designer, renders Deepgate beautifully. It's a complex city of creaking metal links, stone and shadow, inhabited by priests, assassins and the boy-angel Dill, who will lead a journey into the abyss in a desperate attempt to save the city. Campbell has Neil Gaiman's gift for lushly dark stories and compelling antiheroes, and effortlessly channels the Victorian atmospherics of writer and illustrator Mervyn Peake as well. This imaginative first novel will have plenty of readers anxiously awaiting his follow-up. (Jan.)
And from www.LiteraryMagic.com:
Thrilling, chilling, and downright unputdownable.
These are the perfect words to describe this book. Scar Night is captivating and exciting. Campbell’s uncanny ability to write and his command of the English language all come together in this excellent debut to form a great story. Scar Night has everything a reader wants in a fantasy novel, with a bit more. Campbell describes the city of Deepgate so well that he makes you feel as if you’re actually there. He takes you
And from www.SpineTinglers.co.uk:
Vampires, Angels, Assassins, Priests, and more…
Welcome to the world of Deepgate, a city suspended by chains over a vast and mysterious chasm. Only after you have lived your life and died will you find what lies underneath Deepgate at the bottom of the abyss. The religion of Deepgate tells its people that they will find peace when your body is thrown or ‘sent’ to the bottom of the pit where the God Ulcis waits with the noble souls of the dead to greet you. But is this true…?
Campbell sets his stunning debut fantasy in Deepgate, a town wreathed in chains that keep it hanging suspended over a bottomless abyss, peopled by worshippers of Lord Ulcis, the god of chains, and tormented by a mad angel named Carnival. The author, who was a video game designer, renders Deepgate beautifully. It's a complex city of creaking metal links, stone and shadow, inhabited by priests, assassins and the boy-angel Dill, who will lead a journey into the abyss in a desperate attempt to save the city. Campbell has Neil Gaiman's gift for lushly dark stories and compelling antiheroes, and effortlessly channels the Victorian atmospherics of writer and illustrator Mervyn Peake as well. This imaginative first novel will have plenty of readers anxiously awaiting his follow-up. (Jan.)
And from www.LiteraryMagic.com:
Thrilling, chilling, and downright unputdownable.
These are the perfect words to describe this book. Scar Night is captivating and exciting. Campbell’s uncanny ability to write and his command of the English language all come together in this excellent debut to form a great story. Scar Night has everything a reader wants in a fantasy novel, with a bit more. Campbell describes the city of Deepgate so well that he makes you feel as if you’re actually there. He takes you
And from www.SpineTinglers.co.uk:
Vampires, Angels, Assassins, Priests, and more…
Welcome to the world of Deepgate, a city suspended by chains over a vast and mysterious chasm. Only after you have lived your life and died will you find what lies underneath Deepgate at the bottom of the abyss. The religion of Deepgate tells its people that they will find peace when your body is thrown or ‘sent’ to the bottom of the pit where the God Ulcis waits with the noble souls of the dead to greet you. But is this true…?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)