BristolCon

BristolCon Fringe: September 2013 - Piotr Świetlik

This is the first reading from the September 2013 BristolCon Fringe reading. It features Piotr Świetlik, who reads from a short story he is working on. The event is hosted by Cheryl Morgan.

Piotr Świetlik is an SF/F author, DJ, husband and father, originally from Silesia in Poland. He holds a Master’s degree in Information Brokering which helps to keep the hunger for knowledge burning and provides him with ideas for stories. He loves reading SF and his favorite authors are Roger Zelazny, Philip Dick and Michael Moorcock, the first mentioned being the most influential on his writing. He has lived in UK for the past nine years. He has been writing short stories for the past ten years or so, some of them published in Poland. So far his only published story in English is in the Full Frontal Lobe e-zine.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

BristolCon Fringe: August 2013 - Gareth L. Powell

This is the second reading from the August 2013 BristolCon Fringe reading. It features Gareth L. Powell, who reads from his forthcoming novel, Hive Monkey. This is the first ever public reading from the book. The event is hosted by Cheryl Morgan.

Gareth L. Powell is the author of the novels Hive Monkey, Ack-Ack Macaque, The Recollection and Silversands, and the short story collection The Last Reef and Other Stories. His books have been favourably reviewed in The Guardian and, in 2007, one of his stories came top of the Interzone annual readers’ poll for best short story of the year.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

BristolCon Fringe: August 2013 - Myfanwy Rodman

This is the first reading from the August 2013 BristolCon Fringe reading. It features Myfanwy Rodman, who reads from her current novel in progress. The event is hosted by Cheryl Morgan.

Myfanwy Rodman has a creative writing degree and is currently working on an epic fantasy novel, amongst other projects. She will have a story in the forthcoming anthology, Airship Shaped and Bristol Fashion.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

The Battle of the Books

This is a recording of a panel from BristolCon '11. It is a game show in which the contestants vie to have their chosen book voted the best. The contestants, and their chosen books, are as follows:

• Steve Westcott, Lion of Macedon (David Gemmell)
• Paul Cornell, A Dream of Wessex (Christopher Priest)
• Dolly Garland, The Black Jewels Trilogy (Anne Bishop)
• John Meaney, Tunnel in the Sky (Robert A. Heinlein)
• Bob Neilson, The Hawkline Monster (Richard Brautigan)

The musical intro and outro for BristolCon podcasts is taken from "X-Libris", words and music by & © Talis Kimberley 1997. The trumpet player is Tim Walker. For more information about Talis and her music, see her website.