Nice coincidence this. My next sf book I do I want (as I visualise the scenes) a look and colour palette of Halo Jones, a comic I saw as a kid but was too young to read. Today I walked by the newsagents and saw this! Lovely!  Reading it now it’s striking how different Halo […]

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Things aren’t going the way I want them. I can understand why Scotland wants out of the UK now Brexit’s happening but I don’t want Scotland to leave the UK. I don’t want the UK to leave Europe and I want Europe to be consciously thinking about forming a union with every democratic nation on […]

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Had my first 1940’s newsreel dream, all black and white and crackly. Orson Welles was leading me around various abandoned places: first a derelict V2 rocket testing ground (only recently abandoned of course), then around some old mines in a rocky part of New Mexico and finally that big shadowy castle in France where the […]

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Only just discovered that if I hold my autoclock wand (the thingy I use to prove I’ve walked around the hotel where I work) like this it makes a convincing gun from a 70’s BBC sci-fi drama. My hourly corridor checks have just got AWESOME!!! UPDATE: Facebook chum Dan Gilbert has created this simulation of […]

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This circle of trees on a traffic island brought a hint of ancient pagan ritual to the double glazing and metal bus shelter environs of the Danes Hill estate. Last night, two of these five sisters fell after who knows how long they stood. I just hope they weren’t keeping some dark force trapped within […]

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(Worrad, er, fan art(?) by Richard Price, Jay Eales and Andrew Page)

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E-cigarettes exploding/burning: have you noticed that in all the news articles, whether print or online, the make of e-cig is never mentioned? Any other product and the brand is the focus, and rightly so: the buying public should have that knowledge so as to make choices. But not e-cigs. One e-cig blows up and it’s […]

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    This has long been a bugbear of mine. The Internet has made Cthulhu a bad guy set upon conquering humanity, a monster intent on evil like Dracula or Skeletor. That was never HP Lovecraft’s vision. Cthulhu has no interest in humanity and may not even be aware we exist. When it arises from […]

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My brothers got me a plaid shirt and a Subpop beanie. Thanks, guys!  Ah, the nineties. Before the dark times. Before Twitter.

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Petronius deserves a word in retrospect. He was a man who passed his days in sleep, his nights in the ordinary duties and recreations of life: others had achieved greatness by the sweat of their brows— Petronius idled into fame.  Unlike most who walk the road to ruin, he was never regarded as either debauchee […]

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