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2008:

May 26th 2008 - 5.30pm
Hay Literary Festival 2008
Event 180. Interview with Paul Blezard about past books and future plans.
Festival Website: www.hayfestival.com

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21st June 2008
Space, Time, Machine and Monster
A Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Conference for the Valleys
10:00am - 4:30pm, University of Glamorgan, Treforest
Tickets £5 / £3 concessions
A South Wales Literature Development Initiative in association with Academi
For more details: www.academi.com

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20th August 2008
Edinburgh Book Festival 2008
8:00 PM. Tickets on sale from June.
Interview about future plans and Shades of Grey in 2009.
Festival Website: www.edbookfest.co.uk/

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28th and 29th of September 2008
Festival La passione per il delitto
Monticello Brianza (Lecco) Northern Italy, quite near Milan.
The website lists last year's festival, but apparently I'm on it for 2008.
Website www.lapassioneperildelitto.it

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7th-9th November 2008
Armadacom
The South West's most vibrant and happening SF festival. Fforde's event TBA - probably a talk of some sort. www.eif.co.uk

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FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS

March 2031:   Asteroid belt and Saturn (technology permitting) More details TBA.

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October 2042:   81-year-old Fforde talks to other members of old people's home: "I used to be a novelist, no really, I did. Is it lunchtime?" More details TBA.

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July 2175:   Semi-lifelike cloned Ffordesque replicant to tour Gamma Quadrant in the Cygnus Cluster. More details TBA.

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Setember 3431:   Much improved Fforde cloned back to life to face execution for sedition; all works consigned to erasure.

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Janfebry 8910:   Last evidence of Fforde's books vanish forever with the removal of the 'Formerly Thursday Street' plaque from what is now W23-61 Rd in the conurbation known as EuroWest-79.

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12972:    Visiting archeologists from Thraal-7 discover incomplete copy of Well of Lost Plots from excavation in landfill. Deciphering takes seven hundred years and a further four hundred years of academic scrutiny before being accepted as historical fact.