The 'I haven't got much for you today, I've got this though...' Post.

Reading wasn't really a part of things this weekend just gone, mostly because it was Father's Day yesterday and reading will always take second place to playing with Hope and making her giggle. And there was I thinking that reading would never take second place to anything, shows what I know...

All of that didn't leave me with an awful lot to blog about today though, until I realised that I'd been saving an email for just this very occasion. The news is a couple of days late but anyone who doesn't follow goings on at Tor.com could still find it useful to know.

If you're a fan of the 'Bioshock' games (I sit very firmly in the 'looks cool but have never played it' camp, that's me and computer games...) then you'll probably know that the official prequel novelisation is out in July. If you're after having your appetite whetted in the meantime, Tor.com have posted an excerpt from the novel that you can all go and drool over (or not, drooling is by no means compulsory...) Here's the link...

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/06/bioshock-rapture-excerpt

That's all you need I think... What? You want to know about the author? Ok then...

John Shirley is the Bram Stoker-award winning author of Black Butterflies, as well as an acclaimed songwriter and screenwriter.  He’s perhaps best known for penning the script of Alex Proyas’ noir masterpiece The Crow, and he brings his talent for dark, cinematic storytelling to this new project. Shirley will be signing San Diego Comic-Con the week his novel comes.

Got that? Right, I'll see you tomorrow... What? You want the blurb as well? Can't you just go and look on Amazon? No? Well, I can understand that. Here goes...

It's the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has brought a fear of total annihilation. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business has many watching their backs. America's sense of freedom is diminishing . . . and many are desperate to take there freedom back.


Among them is a great dreamer, an immigrant who pulled himself from the depths of poverty to become one of the wealthiest and admired men in the world. That man is Andrew Ryan, and he believed that great men and women deserve better. And so he set out to create the impossible, a utopia free from government, censorship, and moral restrictions on science--where what you give is what you get. He created Rapture---the shining city below the sea.


But as we all know, this utopia suffered a great tragedy. This is the story of how it all came to be . . . and how it all ended.

See you all tomorrow ;o)