Paul Cornell is interviewed at io9.com today. He talks about writing for Doctor Who (in the book, webisode and television mediums), Marvel comics (Wisdom, Captain Britain and MI-13, Fantastic Four: True Story), and radio (he’s adapting Iain Banks’ “The State of the Art” for BBC Radio 4).
And he even gets a nice plug in for a few SF anthologies:
So what are you working on now that you’re most excited by?
At the moment, I’m most excited by the fact that I’ve got a story in all three continuing original SF short story anthologies (non-themed, that is). It’s a complicated boast, but I like it. Two of the stories are in a series, the “Jonathan Hamilton” stories, which are in the style of Ian Fleming (the books, not the movies) and are vicious espionage tales set in a world where… well, I know what the difference to history is, but I haven’t told the audience entirely yet. At any rate, the ‘great game’ of political balance in Europe continues, and the great European nations have colonised the solar system, while continuing a delicate cold war against each other.
Those two stories, ‘Catherine Drewe’ and ‘One of our Bastards is Missing’ are in Fast Forward 2
from Pyr and the Solaris Book of New SF 3, respectively. The other story, ‘Michael Laurits is: DROWNING’ is in the second Eclipse collection, which is I think is going to be launched at Calgary this year. I love SF short stories, and I’m hoping to get into doing more.
And yeah, “Catherine Drewe” is going to blow you away.