BSFG welcomes Claire North

Birmingham SF Group

BSFG interview with science fiction &amp; fantasy author Claire North

The Warehouse - Birmingham Friends of the Earth environmental community hub

We are very excited to welcome back Catherine Webb as our guest for June. Catherine Webb - pen name Claire North - is an award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy.Catherine’s first novel, Mirror Dreams, was completed when they were 14 years old. The book was published in 2002 and garnered comparisons with Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman. They went on to publish a further seven young adult novels under their own name, earning them extensive critical acclaim and two Carnegie nominations for their novels Timekeepers and The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle.While studying International History at the London School of Economics, they wrote an urban fantasy series for adults, writing as Kate Griffin. On graduating LSE, they went to the Royal Academy for Dramatic Arts to study Technical Theatre and Stage Management.Throughout their training they continued to write, and while working as a lighting technician at the Royal National Theatre wrote their first Claire North novel, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, which became a word-of-mouth bestseller and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.They have since published several hugely popular and critically acclaimed novels, won the World Fantasy Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a Locus Award and the Philip K. Dick Award.Catherine's latest novel, to be published in 2025 by Orbit Books, is <a href="https://brnw.ch/21wR1ra" title="https://brnw.ch/21wR1ra" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Slow Gods</a>, a space opera that has been dubbed by Adrian Tchaikovsky as ‘an astonishing, thought-provoking and above all touching story of found meaning and lost humanity’.Catherine currently works as a live music lighting designer, teaches women’s self-defence, and is a fan of big cities, long walks, Thai food and graffiti-spotting. They live in London.To find out more about Catherine's work, visit their website <a href="https://www.clairenorth.com/" title="https://www.clairenorth.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">clairenorth.com</a>.NB This event will be held in-person at the <a href="https://thewarehouse.coop/meeting-room-hire-digbeth-birmingham/" title="https://thewarehouse.coop/meeting-room-hire-digbeth-birmingham/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Friends of the Earth Warehouse, Birmingham</a> and simultaneously on Zoom. Online tickets cost £3.15 for non-members - book here to receive the Zoom link ahead of the meeting.If you are a subscribed BSFG member, online entry is free and you do not need to buy an online ticket. You will be emailed the Zoom link ahead of the meeting.You can also purchase in-person tickets here, or pay on the door (£3 for members or £6 for non-members). More details, including membership, available at <a href="https://www.birminghamsfgroup.org.uk/" title="https://www.birminghamsfgroup.org.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.birminghamsfgroup.org.uk</a>.

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