On Being Launched

Publication day for Loss Protocol, February 12th, was also Darwin Day. Appropriately enough, given that one of the themes of the weird little novel is the slow depletion of the kind of richness of forms of life evoked by Darwin's description of an entangled bank at the end of On The Origin of Species.

My publishers and I arranged a small launch party at Ink@84, an independent bookshop close to where I live. A few photos of the event below, courtesy of Stephen Jones.

My editor, Marcus Gipps, warns the crowd that I'm about to give a reading.

 

 L to R: Kim Newman, Peter Hamilton, PM, China Miéville.

 

L to R: Sean Hogan, Kim Newman, Jay Russell.

 

L to R: Alastair Reynolds, PM, Oliver Morton.