Things In My Flat: The Lowry Print With A Bit Of A History
A Quick Look at My Facebook Group’s Data (and what it may tell us about fandom)
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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Layla Update: Here’s a photo of the lil’ madam clearly getting comfortable in her new home. I’m really happy to see her doing so well. Best o’ luck, m’lady!
Read more "Layla Update"Quick Thought On John Brunner’s Timely Dystopias
It seems odd to me that in this damned year of our Lord 2021 the big dystopian novels of John Brunner haven’t had a renaissance. Whereas the classic dystopias of Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four concern (very generally) socialist nightmare states Brunner focussed on capitalist futures in all their ugliness (Overpopulation, pollution, commercialisation, computer […]
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It’s with some sadness that I relate Layla (aka ‘Lady Fussington’, aka ‘The Duchess’, aka ‘Ol’ Lefty Bereux’) has moved on to pastures and scritches anew. Yup, she’s got a new owner and a new home. Of course I should add I was never her owner. I merely shared a den with her, one which […]
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I’ve a shameful admission. I’ve got a medieval-style fantasy novel coming out next year and I don’t even know how to swing a sword. You read that right. I spent a year writing a character who wields a rapier and the most real world experience I’ve had of that is holding a replica around someone’s […]
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