Management Lessons from Game of Thrones is now available!

 A non-Kaldor, but KC-related, project is now complete: Management Lessons from Game of Thrones!  This is the management textbook you never knew you wanted, but now you know you have to have it: learn all about strategy, organisation studies and personnel management through battles, murders, and really bloody weddings. The hardback has a scary academic price tag, but the paperback has a nice friendly RRP of £20/$30 or equivalent, and you can get ebooks from the publisher's website.

Purchasing details and links are here.

Driving Ambition: The Sale!

To celebrate the re-publication of Driving Ambition, a story of murder, labour relations and self-driving cars, as an independent production, the ebook will be priced at at $2.99/local equivalent for the month of November. Click the link for adventure!

Paperbacks are also still available for £7 plus P&P: email orders@kaldorcity.com if you're interested.

We're Number Three, and Number Eight!

 Telos Publishing have released their bestseller list for the month of October. Liberation: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Blake's 7 (2003) is at #3, and Fall Out: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The Prisoner (2007) is at #8! Find out more about these perennial favourites at the links.

New Entertainment for September!

 Battlestar Galactica is coming to BBC iPlayer.

Why not follow along with a useful guidebook?

Another rave review

More kudos for The Black Archive #43: The Robots of Death, from We Are Cult! Pull-quote here:

“Though very few points in the series’ history are as highly regarded as The Robots of Death, Fiona Moore’s newly released Black Archive volume about the story – the 43rd in the series – nonetheless offers a fresh and compelling analysis.”

Read the full review here, and click the title above to order the book (if you haven't already).

The Black Archive #43: The Robots of Death out now!

Fiona Moore's book on "The Robots of Death" for The Black Archive series of Doctor Who guides/monographs is out now from Obverse Books! You can order it, in ebook or paperback format, here.

Book bundle for the lockdown!

Stuck at home? Need something else besides your Magic Bullet CDs and MP3s to amuse you? Fiona Moore's AI mystery novel Driving Ambition is one of many great books in the Bundoran Buddies book bundle (with a bonus AI story, "Seal", included in the collection Lazarus Risen). For just $15, less than the price of a trade paperback these days, you get 12 books, including, as well as Driving Ambition, works by Robert Sawyer, Tanya Huff, Brad C Anderson and Madeline Ashby.

Link here:

 

https://storybundle.com/scifi

"Doomed Youth" in Best Of British 2018

Fiona Moore's story "Doomed Youth," a tale of giant ants and populist politics, previously published in Interzone 278, will be reprinted in the Best Of British 2018 collection from Newcon Press! You can pre-order it at the link.

Last-minute Christmas shopping time!

Stuck for a present for the Battlestar Galactica fan on your list! Just released from Sequart Publishing,  Somewhere Beyond the Heavens is a comprehensive and entertaining book of articles about old and new series, and one of those is by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore! Click the link for details.

The Black Archive on The Robots of Death

It's official! Obverse Books' The Black Archive series, which is a collection of book-length in-depth examinations of every Doctor Who story from 1963 to the present, has announced that their volume on The Robots of Death will be coming out in 2020, and will be written by Magic Bullet's own Fiona Moore, scriptwriter on Hidden Persuaders and extensive contributor to the Articles page. More details closer to the time!

Driving Ambition: Print books

Print copies of Fiona Moore's cyber-detective novel Driving Ambition are now available!  The link here will take you to the publisher's website. A reminder that you can also get Kindle and Kobo versions if you're not into dead trees.

Driving Ambition: E-books and Interviews!

Driving Ambition, a tale of murder, labour politics and self-driving cars, is now available as an e-book in Kindle and Kobo formats. Print copies will be available to order later, but some advance copies might make their way to the BSFA's interview event with Fiona Moore next Wednesday. Please come if you're in the London area!

In the meantime, here's a tortoiseshell cat contemplating her new copy...

A Night at the Space Opera

See below for a video of Fiona Moore's talk at this year's Eastercon, looking at how various space operas-- including Blake's 7 and Battlestar Galactica-- use colour and style to establish character, mood and theme.

The Robot Revolution Will Be Novelised

Kaldor City: Hidden Persuaders co-author and longtime Magic Bullet production manager, Fiona Moore's novel, "Driving Ambition", has been acquired by Bundoran Press. From their announcement:

"In the not-too-distant future, intelligent Things are recognized as sentient beings--but do they have the same rights as humans? And what about the free-floating Intelligents deep within the Internet. Thompson Jennings is a man with unique problems and unique abilities--he can interface between the human and machine worlds, acting as a go-between in labour negotiations and other disputes. But when one his clients, a sentient taxicab, is murdered, his problems multiply and his abilities are stretched to the limit."

So: Robots, murders, political intrigue and artificial sentience... what more could Kaldor City fans ask for? The book will be published in autumn 2018, details will be forthcoming.

Fiona Moore signing books at Worldcon

That is all. Photo credit Daniel Dern of File770.

Magic Bullet advertising

This is the gorgeous Magic Bullet advert which appears in Vworp Vworp! Issue 3. We think it's too good not to share, and we think you should share it too!

Kaldor on the Box

The Blue Box Podcast Episode 247 interviews Dylan Rees, author of "Downtime-- The Lost Years of Doctor Who", who has this to say about Kaldor City:

"Kaldor City is an audio series, by a company called Magic Bullet, which is set in the world of Chris Boucher’s Doctor Who... so it involves “The Robots of Death” Commander Uvanov, a character called Kaston Iago played by Paul Darrow, it's got Carnell from an episode of Blake’s 7 and it almost sounds like, what we’d call now, the ultimate fanwank, but it is one of the best things to be made related to the Doctor Who universe.
It’s funny, it’s action packed, it’s a gripping six CD story... it’s an incredible production, and I’d never hear it until I did this book, and I wasn’t even going to cover it. I was like, “I’m sure they did like two CDs and that was it..” and then all of a sudden I found it and I was blown away.
So my one recommendation out of anything that comes out of this book is that you have to find Kaldor City and their follow up Faction Paradox."

You can hear the whole thing at this link (the quoted section starts at 1.05.30).

The True History of Magic Bullet

Obverse Books have just released the wonderful volume Downtime-- The Lost Years of Doctor Who by Dylan Rees, a history of the Doctor Who audio and video spinoff industry which sprang up during the 1989-2005 hiatus. It's got a lot to please fans of Magic Bullet productions, featuring interviews with key players and behind-the-scenes stories about making Kaldor City and Faction Paradox audios. Click the link above to order your copy and learn all the secrets!

Exclusive preview clip

An exclusive preview clip of our new Dalek audio, "The Mechanical Planet" can be heard at this link. The CD will be available with the upcoming zine Vworp Vworp! 3; watch this space (and follow our Facebook Page) for details of how to order.

A People's History of Telefantasy

For the academics among you, the paper A People's History of Telefantasy: Cult Television, Society and Identity in the Late 20th/Early 21st Centuries, by Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens (as presented at the Telefantasy and Society Symposium at the University of Lincoln in 2015) is now available to read or download for free from academia.edu. Click the link!