“Hello, you’ve got through to slave support. My name’s Titus, how may I help?” “My slave’s not loading. Won’t carry grain onto my ship.” “Hmm, have you tried pushing him into the river and pulling him out again?”

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This is one guy’s opinion. One guy’s opinion based on looking at the trailers. I don’t pretend to have been keeping up with all the latest gossip or what-have-you and I hasten to add I’m not much of a gamer. But here goes:   Your character is part of a billion+ person, multi-species mission to […]

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  And here’s a preliminary proto-poster type thing. Lovely, innit? Just handed in the first draft and Lucy and Alison and Keith are gonna wipe the crayon marks and crumbs off and make it a proper script. Then we’re gonna film it. Might be a while though cuz first we have to design and build the cameras. That’s just how movies […]

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Presumably the name ‘The First Order’ refers to their level of stupidity. Isn’t it obvious by now, after 40-odd years of Galactic civil war, after THREE attempts, that a giant planet-killer star base is a strategically near-useless waste of oppressed tax payers money? There’s something unique about the dark side that lops off all military […]

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I think Twitter introducing the ability to tweet anything up to, 10000 characters will be a good thing. For starters it streamlines the tweet/blog combo (if you should wish it). A lot of peeps on my feed, being writers and critics and such, have all, almost in union, quipped ‘Yeah, we call it a blog. […]

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There’s a lot of talk about the crowds at science fiction conventions ageing and what can be done about that. But I think there’s a factor here so huge everyone overlooks it: the demographics of the entire western world (and beyond) is ageing. Most days, we can avoid that fact by hanging out with people […]

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I tried to watch a clip of a Yazidi woman giving evidence to the UN about suffering under ISIS but the clip stopped and wouldn’t load because the website hosting it wanted to show me an advert for fair-trade artisan chocolates first. And I thought ‘Christ, that’s the 2010’s perfectly summed up in one moment […]

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  Here’s a film I helped write. It’s only five minutes and is SF so you may well dig it. Here’s director Keith Allot’s description of the project and, as you’ll see, it’s making was quite unusual…   Originally created for the Colchester Film Festival 60 Hour Film Challenge, the first edit I submitted was […]

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A factor behind the Paris attacks (edit: and now Lebanese attacks) might be ISIS attempting to control the world’s media narrative. See, if reports are to believed they’ve just had to give up the entire Shingal region after sustained attack from the Peshmerga (plus bombing support). ISIS haven’t had a strategic victory in some time […]

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Much as I love HPL’s fiction and as much as I generally admire the mind that comes across in his letters, this is the right thing to do and a long time coming. I find Lovecraft’s bigotry infuriating as I do vile: he had a bright, flexible intellect in almost every other area but pigheadedly and […]

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