Author: jamesworrad

So I’m In An Upcoming Anthology…

…with all these awesome authors… Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cynthia Pelayo, Stark Holborn, Ai Jiang, Paul Cornell, Bonnie Burton, David Quantick, Eugen Bacon, Peter McLean, Ren Hutchings, Renan Bernardo, Greg van Eekhout, Pedro Iniguez, Jonathan Maberry, Dennis K. Crosby, D.K. Stone, Sarah L. Miles, J.L. Worrad, KC Grifant, Antony Johnston, Mya Duong, Helen Glynn Jones, Alice James, […]

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The Metabolic Conservatory

A bit of sci-fi architecture (scichitecture?) for you: the Conservatoire de Montreuil, built in 1968. It’s very much in the ‘metabolist’ school, a movement hailing from post-war Japan where buildings are composed of many replaceable parts. Here it serves a very practical use; each music studio is insulated from the next because they’re all separated.

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A Suffocating Feeling

I find this image terrifying. I spotted it on Twitter and immediately recognised it as an Assyrian relief then almost as immediately realised that I would have seen it before now, given I’m an ancient history nerd. It’s an AI generated image. But I only spotted that because I’m of the last few generations who […]

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What I Watched: Eyes Of Fire (1983)

David Cameron’s favourite eighties movie, according to Amazon Prime’s trivia. However, I didn’t let the former prime minister’s approval put me off. Eyes Of Fire is about some European settlers transgressing taboo land and features a patriarchal character full of belief in his abilities but lacking any sense or spine. Weird how the art we […]

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