Only once has an SF story captivated me so much that I went on eBay and bought the magazine it originally appeared in. What surprised me (and perhaps shouldn’t have) is the illustrator’s inability to visualise such a strange and unique future. Heck, the illustrations are old-fashioned even for 1966: C’mell, a woman fighting for […]
Read more "My Beloved Ballad Of Lost C’Mell First Imprint"Mike Glyer’s File 770, mayhap the finest news organ in online SF fandom, run a semi-regular feature where people send in pictures of their cats asleep upon speculative fiction novels. Looks like The Scalpel made the grade! See below: http://file770.com/cats-sleep-on-sff-james-worrad/
Read more "Feline-related Fame Over At File 770"I’ve been a little quiet on here of late and I hope the reasons are now manifest: I’ve been acquiring representation (with all the manuscript tweaking that necessitates). Max is an excellent agent who came highly recommended by someone in genre publishing and its easy to see why. Max has a profound grasp on the […]
Read more "So I Got An Agent!"I found the 1945 British movie The Wicked Lady on YouTube last night. All I knew of it was it was my grandma’s favourite movie (her second was Citizen Kane on account it was ‘very clever’) and every time it came on the cinema grandma would take my mum to see it. I never met […]
Read more "My Grandma And The Wicked Lady"Update 28/4/23: I’m having a lot of hits for this post now that Austin Butler is playing Feyd. I’m afraid this is an old post from before Dune Part One where I spitballed on why we hadn’t seen Feyd yet, so this is of probably little use to you, dear reader. However… looking at the […]
Read more "Dune: Where The F*ck Is Feyd?"In the first part of this two part series I took a look at my favourite British convention’s, erm… conventions about venue, programme running and the dealer hall accessibility. This time we finish off where all con’s finish off: the bar! The heart of any convention is the bar and–much like a time lord–Mooncon has two: a […]
Read more "Mooncon: Britain’s Best Science Fiction convention (Part 2: Bars)"I was floored to hear my old friend Richard Potter has passed away. In fact it surprised me how floored I was, considering I hadn’t really talked to him all that much these last few years (though I’d seen him about and spoken occasionally). And I think that speaks to what a friendly, gentle and […]
Read more "R.I.P Richard Potter"I’ve been convention-going for–bloody hell!–more than a decade now so I guess I can claim to be something of a, er, well… con-noisseur (sorry). Eastercon, Novacon, Fantasycon: you name it I’ve loitered about in it making a nuisance of myself. All the aforementioned have their individual charms. But by far my favourite is a little-known […]
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J.L. Worrad 