About Tim Maughan
After spending most of his life putting it off, Bristol based author Tim Maughan finally started writing science fiction a few years ago. His first sale — Havana Augmented — was nominated for a BSFA award, and this year he released Paintwork, a collection of three cyberpunk-tinged stories dealing with the roles of art, celebrity and globalisation in a very near, and strangely familiar, future. At present his work deals with his obsession with architecture, augmented reality and video games, and next year he hopes to release his debut novel God’s Switch that looks at the social impact of hacktivism, online protest and cyber-warfare.
Away from fiction he is one of the UK’s best known writers on Japanese animation and comics, and is Tor.com‘s resident anime and manga blogger, as well as a contributor to Anime News Network and a frequent podcast guest.
About timmaughanbooks.com
timmaughanbooks.com started as a thinly veiled attempt to promote the author’s fiction, but has developed into a popular internet resource for reviews of mature Japanese manga and anime. Unlike other anime sites and blogs it focuses on high quality animanga either aimed at mature audiences or produced and written with exceptionally high values, while providing a haven for confused newcomers to the scene. The aim here is to seek out and critique works that show the best of what both media can deliver, and that will appeal to the wider audience of serious cinema, literature and the visual arts.
In other words if you’re looking for moe, shonen or hentai you’re in the wrong place.
Email Tim here.
