Simon Spanton
"I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
Wandering. Wondering. Freelancing. Often acquiring and editing SFFH for Angry Robot Books. Live in Edinburgh. Views my own and independent of my employers. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.
- "the act of ever-tightening categorisation is one that haunts and harms the genre and all who sail in it" @chloroformtea.bsky.social PREACH
- Muddy spaniel in the curtains and all's well.
- Cooking tea music.
- Of all the covers on all the books I own this has the weirdest cover. Plus it has a story called The Inspired Chicken Motel ("a motel straight out of revelations").
- Black and white portalage.
- "Riddley Walkers ben to show Riddley Walkers on the go Dont go Riddley Walkers track Drop Johns ryding on his back Stil I wunt have no other track." Happy birthday Russell Hoban.
- Charles Keeping was a genius. A short thread of just some examples. All from Neil Philip's The Tale of Sir Gawain.
- A massive loss to the folklore, myth and literary community.
- Although fascinated by & knowledgeable about a wide range of religions, Neil did not adhere to a particular one. His ingrained belief was that of William Blake: “The world of imagination is the world of eternity.” V sorry to hear of the death of Neil Philip. The obit he prepared will follow #KidLit
- Neil was a kind soul with an endless passion for the power of folk tales and mythology. I was proud and thrilled to have helped his book of English Folktales back into print in a new edition with Watkins. So sad that he won't see the upcoming reissue of Scottish Folktales What a legacy he leaves.
- "'It isn't fair,' she said. A stone hit her on the side of her head. Old Man Warner was saying, 'Come on, come on, everyone.' Steve Adams was in the front of the crowd of villagers, with Mrs. Graves beside him. 'It isn't fair, it isn't right,' Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."
