Scottish Science Fiction: An Update
Posted in Iain (M) Banks, Ken MacLeod, My fiction, Science Fiction at 20:23 on 19 February 2010
Someone got to my recent blog post by searching in google for scottish science fiction. The Wikipedia page under that heading is woefully inadequate while providing some historical perspective but I found this interesting link to an address by Alan McGillivray to The Association For Scottish Literary Studies which he gave in 2000. He naturally focuses on Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod as the only Scottish SF writers around at that time (though my A Son Of The Rock had appeared by then) and looks forward to the growth of Scottish SF which has, in fact, now occurred.
While reading it I realised that I had unaccountably forgotten to mention in my post the novel But n Ben A-Go-Go by Matthew Fitt. This SF novel is singular (and spectacular) in that it is written entirely in Scots. That certainly beat my attempt at Scottish SF into a cocked hat as I wrote/write in English. My apologies to Matthew for the omission.
Tags: Iain M Banks, Kan MacLeod, Matthew Fitt, My fiction, Science Fiction, Scottish Fiction
Consider Phlebas: Towards A Scottish Science Fiction – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton
25 March 2016 at 22:08
[…] Edited to add (6/62014):- Margaret Elphinstone should be added to the list above of Scottish authors of SF. Her first SF book The Incomer appeared from the Womens’ Press in 1987, the same year as Consider Phlebas, but I missed out on it then. My review is here. See also my Scottish SF update. […]