This week myself and Mr Damien Walter discuss Mandalorian facial hair, the Expansiveness of The Expanse and generally generate much boomer energy over this whole Twitch thing the kids are going on about. And here’s the audio version!

The First Line of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A lesson In Excellence

Perhaps the most famous work of the late John LeCarre begins: “The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn’t dropped dead at Taunton races, Jim would never have come to Thursgood’s at all.” That’s such a great opener. To a casual eye it may seem not to be doing much of anything but it’s actually […]

The cover of the Smooth Criminal 7-inch looks like some folklore demon that hops around on one fat goat’s leg.

My fishcakes bring the girls to the yard. Evidently.

The Week In Sci-Fi & Fantasy Podcast, 5th Dec 2020!!!

Yup, we’re back again! This time we conflab about those mysterious monoliths in Utah and elsewhere, Ready Player Two, Ben Bova, Nalo Hopkinson and the CAT-ternet!!!

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What I’ve been watching: Off-Brand Road Warriors!

This week I’ve been watching every 80’s Mad Max rip off flick Amazon Prime has to offer. There’s loads of ‘em, all lovably awful in their own way. I’m just sad it hasn’t repeated with Fury Road. We need Italian cinema Furiosas with plastic bleeping prosthetic arms.

What I’m Reading: Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner

Anyone read Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner? I’ve never encountered a book quite like it. Swordpoint is quietly unique in its world, prose and mood (which, if Goodreads is any indicator, leads readers to have varying opinions of it). There’s a cold sort of irony to the book’s outlook I greatly enjoyed and that marks it […]

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Two Tough Ol’ Toms on the Railway Wall…

Merry Chrimble One And All!!!

The Week In SciFi & Fantasy Podcast: 19th December 2020