Having it appear in the ‘People & Publishing’ section of the new issue of Locus makes it official:
I’m delighted to announce the acquisition of the third Briardene Book: to give it its full title, Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction, collecting reviews and essays by Paul Kincaid of books about science fiction. It’s a collection that builds the argument that science fiction is not one thing but many things, overlapping and interweaving. It’s structured as a series of critical explorations: through the histories of the field, showing how views of SF history have changed over time and how they shape our reading today; through some of the major debates and theories that have been applied to the field, showing how and where they are most useful, or not; and through some of the key authors in the field, and the biographies and critical works that have been written about them, showing how in the end, it’s each individual perspective, each individual work, that really matters. It’s a wide-ranging, deeply knowledgeable, cheerfully argumentative guidebook to this thing we call SF, and you’ll be able to get hold of a copy in April 2025.
For anyone who doesn’t know Paul’s work: you can find his website here and his blog here. His work has been nominated for numerous BSFA, Locus, and Hugo Awards, and has won the BSFA twice; he is also a recipient of the Thomas D Clareson Award. Previous books include What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction (2008), Call and Response (2014), Iain M Banks (2017), and The Unstable Realities of Christopher Priest (2020).
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