Fantasy Book Swap

The Firestation Book Swap goes on tour again next week.

On Monday 4th April we will be guests of WORDfest: Crawley Festival of Words and setting up camp at the Ginger Moo Gallery from 7.30pm.

Joining us on the sofa, or whatever seating provisions are made available, will be Alex Keller and M.D. Lachlan.

Alex is the author of steam punk fairy-tale Haywired and the follow-up, Rewired, which is published just in time for the event.

M.D. Lachlan also goes by the (real) name of Mark Barrowcliffe. As Lachlan, he has written Wolfsangel, a Viking werewolf fantasy. As Barrowcliffe, he authored The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange, which looks to be hilarious.

The drill is pretty much the same as normal. Marie Phillips and myself will chat with the authors, ask questions from the audience via the pre-loaded Question Jar, distribute cake and facilitate some book swaps.

It is all jolly good fun, as they say, and if you don't believe me then check out some reviews: here, here and there.

I have got a bunch of reading on my plate over the next seven days. All you need to do is pop along next Monday night and bring a book to swap.

Full details of the event are on the WORDfest website or the Facebook page.

Comments

[Rachel Green]

Ah! I reviewed 'The Elfish Gene' in 2009:

When Mark Barrowcliffe tires of his weekly wargaming club he is enticed by the magical and mystical game of Dungeons and Dragons. Armed with a basic rulebook and a few polyhedral dice, he persuades other boys to join him in a game. Far from being a replacement for the Friday night wargame, roleplaying becomes an all-encompassing obsession for the teenager. He spends all his money and all his spare time on the game, and it dominates his conversation to the point of interrogating his gran on the relative merits of succubae and harpies.

The memoir explores the social mores of teenage boys in the seventies and provides several wry observations on the outlook of the British Working Class of the 1970s. This was my era and I remember it well - I even lived only a few miles away from Coventry and remember several of the places he mentions.

I enjoyed this book immensely for both the memorabilia of the background and the memories of Dungeons and Dragons (though I didn't get into RPGs until I met some boys who played AD&D in the eighties.) I even nodded in amusement at the authors scathing criticisms of the game's illustrations.

I give this book a 4 out of 5 stars, but if you've never grown up in 70's Britain, or never been in a room until the early hours of the morning because you didn't trust your friends not to kill off your character, you won't enjoy is as much.

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