Thoughts
Facing Fear, Embracing The New.
This One Weird Mecha Trick Protects Me From Bad Weather!
With temperatures plummeting like a hammer off a high scaffold and the rains splattering the streets like someone beneath said hammer I think its time I revealed a secret about myself: in bad weather I often pretend I am a robot. Let me ‘unpack that’, as Buzzfeed columnists inevitably used to say by the second […]
Read more "This One Weird Mecha Trick Protects Me From Bad Weather!"Grimdark! A chat with Peter McLean, Jendia Gammon and me
Heard of Youtube? It’s a new website but it’s good! I’m on it right now as part of a chat about the grimdark fantasy genre along with Peter McLean and Jendia Gammon. It was a lot of fun and I think we made some interesting points.
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Changing Times
Sometime in the nineties a friend told me about a book called A Game Of Thrones which was a fantasy book but, like, not like other fantasy books and I nodded and smiled and indulged him because I thought fantasy books really sad and nerdy.The irony of this isn’t lost on me.
Read more "Changing Times"Russ Nicholson R.I.P
I’m saddened to hear of Russ Nicholson’s passing. Many of us grew up seeing his illustrations in the Fighting Fantasy books or issues of White Dwarf back when it was a cornucopia of diverse gaming lore. Nicholson leaves us work that lies somewhere between the faerie enchantments of Arthur Rackham and the monotone splendour of […]
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…where I discuss how the local spooky lore of my home city influenced me book, The Keep Within. Oooooo…
Read more "Spooky Stuff over at John Scalzi’s Whatever…"On Watching 1917 A Second Time…
Weird how events change you. When I first saw 1917 back when it came out it hit me in the feels, sure, but I watched it last night and the end teared me up (I honestly can’t remember when last that happened). I now realise the difference is I hadn’t been through a Big Thing […]
Read more "On Watching 1917 A Second Time…"The Sadness Of ‘No Other’
The story of No Other, Gene Clark’s searingly beautiful album terrifies me. Gene Clark sobered up, toiled hard and opened his D-minor heart to the world and the world of 1974 didn’t want it. In fact the record company removed it from their catalogue entirely and it was only after Clark’s sad death in the […]
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J.L. Worrad 