Friendly Fire (Bastard Legion Book 2) is out in audiobook from Audible. Narrated by the amazing Amy Finegan Miska’s band of Bastard find themselves on a crime-ridden colony world where the lines between black ops and violent heists blur…
Apr 10, 2018 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Aliens, Audible, Audiobook, Black Ops, Convicts, Covert Ops, Friendly Fire, Gavin G. Smith, Gavin Smith, Heist, Mercenaries, Mil Sci Fi, Mil SF, Military Sci Fi, Military Science Fiction, Military SF, Miska Corbin, Penal Legion, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, SF, Space Opera, Suicide Squad, The Bastard Legion, the Dirty Dozen, The Hangman's Daughter, Veteran, War in Heaven | Comments Off on Friendly Fire (Bastard Legion Book 2) Audiobook Sample
A roundup of reviews for Bastard Legion.
Mar 13, 2018 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Aliens, Altered Carbon, Black Ops, British Fantasy Society, Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Children of Time, Convicts, Covert Ops, Cyberpunk, Gavin G. Smith, Gavin Smith, Mercenaries, Mil Sci Fi, Mil SF, Military Sci Fi, Military Science Fiction, Military SF, Miska Corbin, Penal Legion, Popular Science, Popular Science Blogspot, Runalong the Shelves, Runalong Womble, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, SF, SF Book Reviews, Shadows of the Apt, Space Marines, Space Opera, Suicide Squad, The Bastard Legion, Walker of Worlds | Comments Off on Bastard Legion – Reviews Roundup
Bastard Legion 1 has well and truly been released in the US in paperback!
Feb 23, 2018 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Amazon, Amazon.ca, Amazon.com, America, Barnes & Noble, Barnes and Noble, Black Ops, Canada, Chapters, Gavin G. Smith, Gavin Smith, Mercenaries, Mil Sci Fi, Mil SF, Military Sci Fi, Military Science Fiction, Miska Corbin, North America, Publishers Weekly, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, SF, Space Opera, Suicide Squad, The Bastard Legion, The Hangman's Daughter, US, USA, Veteran, War in Heaven | Comments Off on US & Canadian Release for Bastard Legion!
Veteran & War in Heaven, along with collected short stories, including one exclusive to the collection, is out now in Omnibus E-book edition.
Feb 09, 2018 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Aliens, Cyberpunk, Gavin G. Smith, Gavin Smith, Jakob Douglas, Mech, Mil Sci Fi, Mil SF, Military Sci Fi, Military Science Fiction, Military SF, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, SF, Space Opera, Veteran, War in Heaven | Comments Off on The Veteran Omnibus is Out!
The Bastard Legion (previously the Hangman’s Daughter) is now out in paperback! You can find it on Amazon here and in the US here, you can also get it from Waterstones, Blackwells, Foyles Forbidden Planet and the Book Depository. “Four hundred years in the future, the most dangerous criminals are kept in suspended animation aboard prison ships […]
Nov 07, 2017 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Aliens, Black Ops, Blade Runner, Convicts, Cyberpunk, Gavin G. Smith, Gavin Smith, Mercenaries, Mil Sci Fi, Mil SF, Military Sci Fi, Military Science Fiction, Military SF, Miska Corbin, Penal Legion, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, SF, Space Opera, Suicide Squad, The Bastard Legion, the Dirty Dozen, The Hangman's Daughter, Veteran, War in Heaven | Comments Off on Bastard Legion Book 1 out in paperback.
In which I discuss some of the slightly ropey WWIII, survivalist fiction of my youth.
Jun 12, 2017 | Categories: Blog | Tags: 28 Days Later, Brat Pack, Cold War, Cthulhu Mythos, Dawn of the Dead, First Strike Weapon, Games Designer Workshop, GDW, George A. Romero, Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse, IZA, Jerry Ahern, John Milius, Milius, NucleaR War, plush-Cthulhu, Post-Apocalyptic, Rebellion, Red Dawn, Role Playing Game, RPG, Special Purposes, Splatterpunks, The Survivalist, Third World War, Twilight 2000, War Games, Wolverines, Zak Knutson, Zombie | Comments Off on My Shameful Fictional History
Is Cyberpunk still dead?
Mar 23, 2017 | Categories: Blog | Tags: 2000AD, Akira, Alfred Bester, Aliens, Blackhat, Blade Runner, Bruce Bethke, Bruce Sterling, Cowpunk, Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk 2020, Dark Angel, Deathbird Stories, Dollhouse, Elysium, Expanse, Fringe, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Future Sound of London, Gardner Dozois, Gavin G. Smith, Gavin Smith, Ghost in the Shell, Hardware, Harlan Ellison, JG Ballard, Lauren Beukes, Mage, Ministry, Mirrorshades, Mr Robot, Neal Stephenson, Neuromancer, NIN, Nine Inch Nails, Ninja, Pat Cadigan, Philip K. Dick, Renaissance, Revolting Cocks, Richard Morgan, Rudy Rucker, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, SF, Shadowrun, Space Opera, Splatterpunk, Steampunk, Synners, Terminator, The Hangman's Daughter, Veteran, Walter Jon Williams, War in Heaven, Wild Palms, William Gibson, World of Darkness, X-Files | Comments Off on The C Word
“Four hundred years in the future, the most dangerous criminals are kept in suspended animation aboard prison ships and “rehabilitated” in a shared virtual reality environment. But Miska Corbin, a thief and hacker with a background in black ops, has stolen one of these ships, the Hangman’s Daughter, and made it her own. Controlled by […]
Jan 25, 2017 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Age of Scorpio, Aliens, Amy Finnegan, Audible, Audiobook, Black Ops, Convicts, Covert Ops, Cyberpunk, Gavin G. Smith, Gavin Smith, Mech, Mercenaries, Mil Sci Fi, Mil SF, Military Sci Fi, Military Science Fiction, Military SF, Miska Corbin, Penal Legion, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, SF, Space Opera, Special Forces, Suicide Squad, The Bastard Legion, the Dirty Dozen, The Hangman's Daughter, Veteran, War in Heaven | Comments Off on Audiobook Sample on SoundCloud for the Hangman’s Daughter (Bastard Legion Book 1)
Black Ops, convict mercenaries, a bullet riddled, blood soaked SF thriller from the author of Veteran, War in Heaven and the Age of Scorpio trilogy.
Jan 03, 2017 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Age of Scorpio, Aliens, Black Ops, Convicts, Covert Ops, Cyberpunk, Gavin G. Smith, Gavin Smith, Mech, Mercenaries, Mil Sci Fi, Mil SF, Military Sci Fi, Military Science Fiction, Military SF, Miska Corbin, Penal Legion, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, SF, Space Opera, Special Foreces, Suicide Squad, The Bastard Legion, the Dirty Dozen, The Hangman's Daughter, Veteran, War in Heaven | Comments Off on The Hangman’s Daughter: Book 1 of the Bastard Legion series released on Ebook on the 26th of January
Stunning artwork for the fourth part of the Japanese edition of War in Heaven.
Dec 13, 2016 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Cyberpunk, Final Fantasy, Gavin G. Smith, Gavin Smith, Gravity Rush, Mech, Mil Sci Fi, Mil SF, Military Sci Fi, Military Science Fiction, Military SF, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, SF, Space Opera, Takeshi Oga, Tokyo Sogensha, Veteran, War in Heaven | Comments Off on Artwork for Part 4 the Japanese Edition of War in Heaven!
Part 3 of War in Heaven is out in Japan today from Tokyo Sogensha and once again the cover is absolutly stunning! You can see the covers for Veteran here and the covers for the first two parts of War in Heaven here.
Nov 09, 2016 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Gavin G. Smith, Gavin Smith, Mil Sci Fi, Mil SF, Military Sci Fi, Military Science Fiction, Military SF, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, SF, Space Opera, Tokyo Sogensha, Veteran, War in Heaven | Comments Off on Artwork for Parts 3 of the Japanese Editions of War in Heaven
(Spoiler Warning: The below contains mild spoilers for the films Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed, as well as my first two novels Veteran and War in Heaven.)
Oct 10, 2016 | Categories: News | Tags: Adldnoah.Zero, Akira, Anime, Appleseed, Black Lagoon, Blade Runner, Bruce Sterling, cultural appropriation, Cyberpunk, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, exoskeletons, Fistful of Dollars, Gavin G. Smith, Gavin Smith, Ghost in the Shell, Katsuhiro Otomo, Knights of Sidonia, Kurosawa, Lionel Shriver, Magnificent Seven, Manga, Masamune Shirow, Mech, Mecha, Mil Sci Fi, Mil SF, Military Sci Fi, Military Science Fiction, Military SF, Pat Cadigan, Philip K. Dick, power armour, Psycho Pass, Ridley Scott, Robert A Heinlein, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, Seven Samurai, SF, Space Opera, Sword Art Online, The Irregular at Magic High School, Tokyo Sogensha, Unforgiven, Veteran, Walter Jon Williams, War in Heaven, William Gibson, Yojimbo | Comments Off on Everybody Be Cool, This is a Robbery
So after last week’s post of the amazing covers for the Japenese edition of Veteran from Tokyo Sogensha, I can now reveal the first two covers of the four part translation of War In Heaven. Part 1 is out this month, part two is out in October. I’m sure that you’ll agree they are every […]
Sep 14, 2016 | Categories: News | Tags: Gavin G. Smith, Gavin Smith, Mil Sci Fi, Mil SF, Military Sci Fi, Military Science Fiction, Military SF, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, SF, Space Opera, Tokyo Sogensha, Veteran, War in Heaven | Comments Off on Artwork for Parts 1 & 2 of the Japanese Editions of War in Heaven
Cover art from the Japenese Editions of Veteran.
Sep 08, 2016 | Categories: News | Tags: Cover art, Cyberpunk, Final Fantasy, Issui Ogawa, Juryoku Iwagoh, Kazuya Yoshinaga, Kiyoshi Arai, Mech, Military Science Fiction, Mill SF, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Tokyo Sogensha, Veteran | Comments Off on Beautiful Japanese Editions of Veteran
Some musings on heroes and rules in fiction. Contains spoilers for Sicario & Captain America: Civil War.
Aug 23, 2016 | Categories: Blog | Tags: 24, Captain America, Captain Britain, Civil War, Dead Pool, Dead Shot, Emily Blunt, Game of Thrones, Heroes, Jack Bauer, James Bond, Mad Max, Sicario, Suicide Squad, Superheroes, Superman, the Ultimates | Comments Off on Heroes & Rules
So last week Crises and Conflicts, an anthology celebrating the first 10 years of the superb NewCon Press, was released, along with its companion anthology Now We Are Ten. The last story in Crises and Conflicts is by yours truly and is called the Beauty of Our Weapons (with apologies to Leonard Cohen) and I have to say I’m very pleased with the story. It is set in the same world of the Age of Scorpio trilogy, and contains a number of cameos from a few familiar faces. It tells the story of a technological immortal who is present at a number of turning points in military history connected to weapons development (with the normal: it’s fiction caveat). I was lucky enough that Ian Whates, the owner and editor-in-chief for NewCon, chose BoW as inspiration for the cover art. There is however a problem with the story, it is inspired by a facet of my personality that I am not entirely comfortable with: my fascination with weapons.
Jul 18, 2016 | Categories: Blog | Tags: A Quantum Mythology, Age of Scorpio, Anthology, Beauty of Destruction, Classical Conditioning, Confirmation Bias, Crisis & Conflicts, Echo Chamber, First Person Shooter, Gun Control, Hard Science Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Military SF, Newcon Press, Now We Are Ten, Science Fiction, Short Story, Social Cost, Space Opera, Technological Immortality | Comments Off on The Beauty of Our Weapons
New short story in the Legends II anthology honouring the life and works of fantasy great David Gemmell.
Aug 21, 2015 | Categories: News | Tags: Andy Remic, Anthology, Anthony Ryan, David Gemmell, Edward Cox, Fantasy, Freda Warrington, Gavin Smith, Gemmell Awards, Heroic, High Fantasy, Ian Whates, John Hornor Jacobs, Kindle, Mark Lawrence, Newcon Press, Rowena Cory Daniells, Short Stories, Smoke Stack Lightning, Southern Gothic, Spacewitch, Stella Gemmell, Western | Comments Off on Legends II Anthology Released
A Quantum Mythology, the second part of the Age of Scorpio trilogy was released in the UK on the 26th of March.
Mar 30, 2015 | Categories: News | Comments Off on A Quantum Mythology released
Music that inspired the Age of Scorpio trilogy.
Mar 25, 2015 | Categories: Blog | Tags: A Quantum Mythology, Age of Scorpio, Blackwater Park, Celts, Clash, Cult of Luna, Debussy, Fantasy, Gavin G. Smith, Grunge, Historical Fiction, Industrial Music, Isis, Myth, New Model Army, Old Man Gloom, Opeth, Peter Tosh, Progressive Metal, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Temple of the Dog, TesseracT | Leave A Comment »
Reccomendations for Iron Age fiction.
Mar 21, 2015 | Categories: Blog | Tags: 2000AD, A Quantum Mythology, Age of Iron, Age of Scorpio, Angus Watson, Bernard Cornwell, Celtic Mythology, Celts, Centurion, Fantasy, Gavin G. Smith, Gavin Smith, Historical Fiction, Myth, Neil Marshall, Pat Mills, Science Fiction, Slaine, Space Opera | Leave A Comment »
The release of the Gavin Deas collaboration: Empires.
Nov 25, 2014 | Categories: News | Leave A Comment »
New cover artwork for A Quantum Mythology from Spyroteknik.
Oct 28, 2014 | Categories: News | Leave A Comment »
