Archive for June, 2008

Today sees the beginning of Volume 5 of VFoS. We’re almost two thirds of the way through the story and things are hotting up. In this episode, Ghost decides to hunt down the pilot with a price on his head. Click on the Serial Novella button to read and keep the feedback coming –...
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The news wires and the blogosphere are awash with tributes to George Carlin, and deservedly so. George was admitted to hospital on Sunday complaining of chest pains and died of heart failure late in the afternoon. He was 71 years old. So why am I adding my voice to the global outpouring of grief?...
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Monday rolls around once again and another episode of VFoS has been posted on the Serial Novella page. In this episode Ghost gets a couple of answers and decides to stop sitting around. This episode also marks the completion of Volume 4 in the completely arbitrary 5 episodes per volume format that I decided...
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Following on from yesterday’s post listing the SFX top 100 sci-fi and fantasy authors, I thought this list was also relevant. Via S F Signal, here we have the American Film Institute’s top ten films in ten genres. The ten genres are Animation, Romantic Comedy (a genre that even has a title that makes...
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Back in April I posted about UK based SFX Magazine searching for the top 50 science fiction and fantasy authors. Well, the results are out and they’ve released a top 100. The top ten are: 10. Robert Rankin 9. HG Wells 8. Philip K. Dick 7. Iain M. Banks 6. Isaac Asimov 5. George...
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For the Australians it’s a bit late. It is still Monday, but almost Monday night. Sorry about that. For anyone else you’re probably still in bed on Sunday night and completely oblivious to anything, so you can ignore this first paragraph. There are many benefits to living in Australia, one of which is being...
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This isn’t really something that fits in with the general theme of my blog here, except for an extremely tenuous link between me as a science fiction and fantasy writer and the current exploration of space. So what the hell? That’s good enough for me. This is by far the coolest picture I’ve seen...
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There’s a lot of power in names. You don’t need to be a daemonologist to know that. We do have this seemingly inbuilt and unavoidable need to name and categorise everything. While a personal name is very important, group names become something of a murky area. I’ve been entertained over the last few days...
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These Mondays do seem to rock around very quickly. I’m sure there must be some galactic phenomenon happening that is causing time to speed up. Or I’m just getting older. It seems that the older you are, the more you complain about “how fast the time goes”. Really old people must feel like they’re...
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Further to my previous post about the new Indiana Jones movie, here are a couple of other items you might be interested to read. Be warned that these do contain more in the way of spoilers than my post did. You can read John’s SF Signal review of the movie here and the same...
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