news: short story online

Not many of my stories can be classified as ‘near-future’. A few months ago I did write one, though; a short SF story which is set presumably some time in the next fifty years. It's called A Thousand Trains Out of Here, and it has just appeared in the online DayBreak Magazine, as part of the promotion for Jetse de Vries' SHINE anthology of optimistic SF (Solaris, March 2010) | 02-2010

ezzulia interview (dutch)

Last month I was a guest at the Archeon Midwinterfair, mostly in a capacity as member of the jury for the 2009 Paul Harland Prize — i.e. sitting behind the table, nodding sagely and firing off witty one-liners from the jury report at the right moments. More interestingly, I was also interviewed about my novel The Scrypturist. Apologies for the fact that it's Dutch only, but it's available here. | 01-2010

news: short story online

The English version of my short story ‘i’ is now available online: read it here. It appeared originally in The Elastic Book of Numbers, which won the 2006 British Fantasy Award for best Anthology. The Dutch version of this story was published in Zwarte Sterren 1. | 12-2009

news: The Scrypturist

Paul Evanby's first novel appeared recently from Mynx Publishers (a Meulenhoff Boekerij imprint). Despite having been available for only two months, the first printing of The Scrypturist has already sold out. | 12-2009

Mauric Dystergrove is one of Revantine's best Writers. On request he writes entire worlds, great spells or simple protections. Until a stranger arrives in town, his skin covered in an unknown script, on the run from a dark past. His desperate search for a secret book convinces Mauric of one thing: nothing will ever be the same again — not even if they succeed in preventing the unimaginable disaster which threatens to destroy the world.

The Scrypturist is a convincing and mature fantasy debut by an award-winning Dutch author with an original voice, rich language and convincing characters. Inventive, tightly plotted and with ingenious magic — The Scrypturist is the first part of an epic tale about a world on the brink of a revolution.

“... the most intelligent novel I've read in this genre for years...” (Ezzulia.nl)