A ‘Verse Full of Scum – Episode 21

Jun 29, 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...

RIP George Carlin

Jun 23, 2008

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...

A ‘Verse Full of Scum – Episode 20

Jun 22, 2008

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...

Top genre films

Jun 19, 2008

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...

100 of the best

Jun 18, 2008

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...