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 […]
Read more "The First Line of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A lesson In Excellence"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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Read more "Little Fierce Eyes"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.
Read more "What I’ve been watching: Off-Brand Road Warriors!"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 […]
Read more "What I’m Reading: Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner"Finding the sci-fi news too much? Myself and Damien Walter are here to chop it all down to size with out chat-shears! And on iTunes… https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/not-so-dangerous-visions-the-week-in-scifi-003/id1530666687?i=1000499770683
Read more "Week In Sci-Fi Podcast, Nov 22nd."The last time an object this long-buried re-emerged it melted an entire kompanie of Nazi soldiers’ faces. Science Fiction fandom collectively gawped this week as it was announced The Last Dangerous Visions, an anthology of ‘dangerous’ stories overseen by Harlan Ellison way back in 1973, would finally see publication, possibly as early as 2021 and […]
Read more "Last Dangerous Vagueness"My longtime pal (and frontman of my old band) Pete Sheppard has done a series of glitch portraits of yours truly. Ain’t they good? (You can find his work at his instagram, phale _420 )
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