Tom Kidd

Orson Scott Card

Runnel, a friendless peasant from a village so humble that money is a new concept, stumbles into a centuries-old feud when he travels to Mitherhome, the city of the wetwizards, seeking his fortune. He accepts a servant's position in the household of the sole stonemage permitted within the city walls, where his untapped magical talents and his fascination with his master's abilities are a predictably dangerous combination.

Stonefather

Tom M. Morton

Shetland Times Ltd

25 years of oil in Shetland Black Gold Tide is an important, moving and insightful photographic journey into the relationship between the Shetland Islands and oil. It captures how things were before the coming of the hydrocarbon riches, what happened, and how things changed. And it does so largely through the faces of those who lived and still live on the Old Rock. If pictures tell the real story, a subtle light is shed on events by detailed, emotional, sometimes very funny verbatim interviews with boatmen and teachers, oil executives and labourers, barmen and fish processors, waitresses and painters. Ordinary people with extraordinary tales to tell. The pictures come from the archives and a special summer assignment in 2003 by acclaimed photographer Tom Kidd. The interviews were carried out by BBC broadcaster and well-known writer Tom Morton. North Sea oil flowed into Shetland a quarter of a century ago, and for the inhabitants of this remote island community, nothing would ever be the same. Among the thousands of men and women who followed the oil to the islands was a young photographer called Tom Kidd. Kidd went on to a distinguished career in photography, with many award-winning assignments for national and international publications. He has exhibited widely and has photographs in the collection of the Scottish Arts Council and the Victoria and Albert Museum. A long-standing interest in flying led him to his current involvement in piloting helicopters. longstanding admirer of Kidd's work, suggested they collaborate on a book which would revisit the beginnings of oil in Shetland, marking 25 years since the first oil ashore. Morton, who lives in Shetland and first visited in 1978, was keen to see Kidd's long-lost Shetland photographs republished, along with others representing key moments in the islands's relationship with oil, and a series of new pictures bringing the story right up to date. Kidd's archive turned out to include many forgotten photographs, some of which are now being seen publicly for the first time. Morton carried out a series of interviews with men and women who had experienced the oil boom and all that has happened since, and Kidd shot portraits of them. Morton's interviews were broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in late 2003 under the title Welcome to Hornswoggle County. photographs, both new and old, in a stunning meditation on what oil means, and has meant for the Shetland community. It is an important work of social history, an act of homage to the individuals who helped bring oil to Shetland, and yet preserved a way of life still unique in Europe.

25 Years of Oil in Shetland

Black Gold Tide

Tom Kidd is a multi award-winning science fiction and fantasy artist, with more than twenty years experience working as a freelance illustrator for book covers, magazines and illustrated books. His prolific and diverse career has also seen him produce design work for theme parks, entertainment products, films and figurines. Tom's publishing clients include William Morrow, Harper Collins, (for whom he produced cover of HG Well's 'War of the Worlds'), Ballantine Books, Del Rey Books, Doubleday Books, Penguin Books, Warner Books, MacMillan & Co., St. Martin's Press, Marvel Comics, Random House and Reader's Digest. In the design field he has worked for Walt Disney Feature Animation, Universal Studios, Landmark Entertainment, Franklin Mint, and International Robotics. He has exhibits of his work at the Canton Museum of Art, Delaware Art Museum, Society of Illustrators, Words & Pictures Museum, RSVP Dreams Competition, and NASA Future Art.

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