An anthology of authentic and realistic hard science fiction
When a television series pilot opens with what seems to be a vision of hell – writhing naked bodies, men fighting bloodily to the death, people being shot, human sacrifices – and then later features a suicide bomber on a train… you know you’re not watching your usual anodyne and juvenile science fiction series. But [...]
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You want to be a writer, you want to write. But why science fiction? Of all the modes of fiction you could write, why choose sf? You’re not going to be hip, you’re not going to be relevant. Even during the Apollo programme, sf wasn’t relevant. In 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first human being [...]
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We all know the UK economy is in a terrible state, and it’s not all that different in other countries. Massive deficits, swingeing cuts. Looking at the future, it seems no one’s going to be wearing shades for a while. Except perhaps science fiction writers. After all, isn’t sf known for mapping the way to [...]
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My review of the award-winning The City and the City by China Miéville is now up on the SFF Chronicles web site. You can find it here.
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I spent yesterday, as did a number of other people, at alt.fiction, a one-day genre writing convention in Derby. This was the fourth alt.fiction and the first in a new venue, the QUAD. I had a good day. Chatted to some friends, met some new people. The two programme items that really interested me were [...]
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Let no one say my book hauls are not diverse… At the back are a couple of graphic novels – Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910, first in three-part series set in the twentieth century; and the sixth of Cinebook’s translations of the Belgian Adventures of Blake and Mortimer [...]
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Have I mentioned before that I’m beginning to regret choosing big fat fantasy novels for my reading challenge this year? I think for next year’s challenge I’ll pick books under 100 pages, or at least something that’s predominantly short. Because secondary-world fantasies are generally big books and, at 698 pages in my Orbit paperback edition, [...]
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I was just thinking to myself this morning that it’s been a while since a meme went around. So, of course, one popped up. I got this from Paul Kincaid‘s LJ page, and it seems especially appropriate given my summer reading project. The list looks like it was taken from the Periodic Table of Women [...]
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My reviews of two British low-budget thrillers are now up on VideoVista – Bad Day, starring Claire Goose of Waking the Dead (review is here); and Night Dragon, which stars, er, no one famous (review is here).
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Everyone should have a project for the summer months. I have plenty of writing projects all ready, but I thought I should have a reading one too. Not just that list of books I want to read and plan to work my way through, something a bit more… structured. Which I can write about here. [...]
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