‘There’s A Deluge Of Good Taste In Modern Fantasy And Frankly It’s Disgusting’
I just did an interview over on the delightful Runalong The Bookshelves site. We talk about my books, fighting and general bawdiness. Link HERE.
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The Mystery Of Piggy Hollow
Elric And Colour
Just started reading Elric Of Melnibone for the first time in decades and what strikes me is the incredible use of colour. I’d this memory of it being very grey and monotone, what with it being a big influence on modern grimdark, but EOM is psychedelic in visual tone: the throne carved from a giant […]
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Goodbye Fergus
Yesterday I discovered actor and comedian Fergus MacDonald Caird had passed away. He played the father in our short movie ‘Flawless’, which you can watch below. Fergus was an excellent performer, capable of evoking layers of emotion in a single expression. He was a funny guy, just naturally funny, and he cracked me up every […]
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We’re talking about the speculative fiction anthology that’ll define a decade. Just check out the goddamn line up… Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ai Jiang, Alice James, Antony Johnston, Cynthia Pelayo, D.K. Stone, David Quantick, Dennis K. Crosby, Eugen Bacon, Gemma Amor, Greg van Eekhout, Helen Glynn Jones, J.L. Worrad, John Wiswell, Jonathan L. Howard, Kali Wallace, KC […]
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It’s bad enough i see people on Facebook saying the Egyptians didn’t build the pyramids but yesterday I bumped into one commenter insisting the romans had electrical machinery and that anyone who couldn’t tell that by looking at their buildings was a fool. I had to reply. I said the Romans would tell us in […]
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