From the event page at the Foyles site:

Twisted, gritty, spiked with mordant wit, Gun Machine is the latest bullet from the brain of Warren Ellis. It’s the kind of dark detective thriller you won’t have read before, but exactly what you’d expect from the award-winning creator of Transmetropolitan, Planetary and Red. Come and hear more from Ellis at Foyles in conversation with journalist and author Sam Leith.

Click through to buy tickets: a fiver, or three quid concession.  (I don’t charge or set prices, so don’t even think about complaining to me about it.)  Starts at 630pm.  By 730pm, the strain of having had to be coherent on stage for an hour will probably have killed me.  Come to see that!

LONDON, June 26, speaking at Greg Palast’s VULTURE’S PICNIC book launch – details

UNDER TOMORROWS SKY is a project by Liam Young of Tomorrows Thoughts Today opening in August at MU art space, Eindhoven. Liam has assembled a think tank of mad scientists, literary astronauts, digital poets, speculative gamers, mavericks, visionaries and luminaries to collectively author a proposal for a future city- an imaginary urbanism, the landscapes that surround it and the stories it contains.

On Saturday June 16 and Sunday June 17 the think tank will be coming together in physical space at MU but also in virtual space for a weekend of public presentations, discussions and workshops. Come behind the scenes as we open up the design process of the speculative city and expose the deliberations of the Under Tomorrows Sky think tank. See the work in progress and join us to debate the social, cultural, ethical and environmental consequences of emerging technologies.

At 8 pm on Saturday June 16th the members of the think tank will introduce themselves and present a series of wondrous visions of the future based on their own research or projects. On the following Sunday June 17 from 11am the group will get together for an open day of discussions, design workshops and live sketching as they begin to give shape to their city Under Tomorrows Sky.

Taken from this link here, which is where further details live.  The cast includes Bruce Sterling, synthetic biologist Rachel Armstrong, and, um, me.

So tomorrow I begin the long trek to Hay-On-Wye, for two appearances (Sunday and Monday) at the literary/philosophy festival How The Light Gets In.  All details at link.  I imagine most data traffic from me will be on Instagram and Twitter.  Expect this place to be dark until probably Tuesday night, because I want to escape as much of the Jubilee crap as possible.

This escaped into the world over the weekend – I’m supporting Greg Palast at ULU in London on the 26th of June.  All details live at this link here.

It’s Greg’s book launch, so don’t even ask me about signing heaps of stuff.

I’m speaking at the Kapow Comics Convention in London at 315pm.  No signing, as I have to leave for home to go back to work soon after.  It’s just an onstage Q&A thing with the audience. 

Matt Staggs interviewed me for The Disinfo Podcast, and now it’s online. 

(Using, I have to note, a photo of me that must be 12 years old, complete with now-shaven head-hair.) 

I haven’t been interviewed over the phone for, frankly, years, and I’m terrible at it.  I can’t even bring myself to listen to this.  But you know, feel free to listen in and cringe for me.

Before the screening of that bloody documentary, I will be onstage for an hour taking questions and being abused by Lenny Henry.  And then running away.

(information) (official Comica Festival post)

I’m afraid this event sold out within a few moments of BERG posting it on the twitters, but, just for the record, this is happening in London:

“The Near-Future of Pop” is a title that Jones came up with and basically forced upon me.  God only knows what I’m going to do with that.  After the event, I will probably post whatever I came up with here.

I’m signing stuff in the Comics Village area of MCM Expo this coming Saturday from 2pm to 3pm.

That’s it.

I’m literally just getting on a train, getting a cab from the train station to the hotel, dumping my bag at the hotel, going to the con site to sign stuff for an hour, then going to the pub.  Expo, for me, is really just an excuse to see a few old friends like Kieron Gillen and Emma Vieceli.

Check out the guest list.  I literally do not know who ninety percent of these people are, but you might.

Please don’t bring great big boxes of stuff, and please be conscious of the people waiting behind you to have their own books defaced by a very tired old man with a Sharpie.

Hope to see some of you there.

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Apparently it got announced today that I’ll be appearing in the Comic Village area of MCM Expo.

Due to other commitments, I’ll only be there on Saturday May 28.  I’ll be signing for an hour in the afternoon – I’ll know which hour closer to the time, and it will be listed in the Expo programme or on the posted signing schedules or whatever. 

And then I’ll be going to the pub to drink with friends, many of whom I will not have seen in a long time.

I’m totally fine with signing a thing if you see me at the pub.

As announced at this link here, I’m the closing keynote speaker at the Cognitive Cities Conference in Berlin on Feb 26. Other speakers not unknown to regular readers here include Adam Greenfield and Ben Hammersley.

It’s a lightning trip for me — I’m back on a plane on the morning of the 27th — and I’m really only there to rant about ghosts and UFOs for 30 minutes, get fresh intel from the other speakers, work and drink beer.

If you’re in town and you fancy it, there are still tickets available, and, apart from me, the list of speakers is really quite excellent.

Which I’m just copypasting from Seat42F, actually, because I just woke up and I’m laaazy. What follows is the entirety of my SDCC 2010 schedule.

Thursday, July 22, 2010 – 2:15pm – 3:15pm – Hall H:

RED – Stars Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, and Mary Louise Parker join director Robert Schwentke and Red’s graphic novel writer Warren Ellis as they debut the final trailer exclusively to Comic-Con 2010, before it’s ever in theaters, and answer questions about bringing this well known D.C. Comics graphic novel to the big screen. Based on the graphic novel by Ellis, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren star in this explosive action-comedy in which former CIA top agents become the Agency’s top targets because of the secrets they know.

Yes, I said entirety. I’m being driven in from LA that morning, and being flown back to Britain after the panel.

I’ll now be signing for an hour or two from 2pm on Saturday, not, as previously stated, 1pm. This is due to the trains being fucked. Just as they were last time I went to MCM Expo, in fact.  It’s a curse.

So I had a bunch of stuff change on my schedule, and it turns out I can get out of the house for half a day after all.  So I’m going to turn up at Comic Village at MCM Expo around 1pm on Saturday and sign stuff for an hour or so. Chances are good that I will show up without the benefit of having eaten anything first, so it will not be a long signing.  I mean, I’ll do what I can, but you don’t want me passing out or throwing up on you.  Chances are also good that I’ll be at that pub opposite the Excel — I think it’s the Fox? — at some point later.