Merry Christmas everybody! Here’s speculative fiction author Stephen Palmer to offer some thoughts on changing attitudes to the season… There is no Santa Claus, it’s your parents… How old was I when I learned this? My parents moved to the house I spent most of my childhood in when I was six, and in that […]
Read more "Guest Post: Stephen Palmer On The Changing Value Of Christmas."If you blog or Insta or YouTube or, er, MySpace about books then you can now request a copy of my fantasy novel ‘Pennyblade’ on NetGalley. You’ll get a free book and I’ll be very gratified. Titan Books has announced the gripping, savaley funny, epic fantasy called Pennyblade by J.L. Worrad, which is set for […]
Read more "NEWS: Pennyblade Available On NetGalley"I watched In The Earth (2021 Dir. Ben Wheatley)last night, a film entirely written rehearsed and filmed during the lockdown. It’s genre brilliance lies in simultaneously being a folk-horror and a science fiction, so it was right up my street (Some of you more venerable UK Salonites may recall The Stone Tapes and Children Of […]
Read more "What I’m Watching: In The Earth (2021)"Re: last blog post. I’d long suspected the Eddie Jones painting currently on my wall had been commissioned for a magazine or novel cover. Thanks to Steve Cameron and Pete Young’s investigations, turns out it was used a number of times in Germany and Denmark.
Read more "‘Moonstar Battle’ Follow-up"A painting and a question for all you old guard SF peeps out there.
Read more "‘Moonstar Battle’, A Painting by Eddie Jones"You may know I run a little facebook group called Fantasy & Sci-Fi Salon (join today!). As the administrator I get to see backstage and– though the Salon provides a small data set– it may tell us something about the state of current SFF fanship. 1: Gender disparity is fading off with the generations. That […]
Read more "A Quick Look at My Facebook Group’s Data (and what it may tell us about fandom)"Dreamed I was lying in bed with a big spider on my chest. It kept seeing off other spiders that approached and then I realised it saw me as its mate. A Victorian-style headmaster appeared and said something like ‘Worrad, don’t you think it’s time you made an honest arachnid out of her?’ and next […]
Read more "The Many Eyes Of Mrs Worrad"With the coming of a Foundation series on Apple TV a whole new generation is going to Google Isaac Asimov and discover how creepy he was. Asimov made a lot of predictions that have more or less come to pass–robots taking jobs for instance–but what he never foresaw was an early twenty-first century culture intolerant […]
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J.L. Worrad 