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UPDATE: A pdf of Eight Passion Proteins With Care can now be downloaded from the blog by clicking on the link below: Eight Passion Proteins With…
8 CommentsAnyone watching TV would think that the late 18th and early 19th centuries were full of demure young ladies taking tea and unfavourably comparing the…
2 CommentsIn the lands of the North, where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long the…
3 CommentsBy the time I was old enough to read the famous British comic Eagle it had folded, so I missed Dan Dare, Police Constable 49…
2 CommentsThe first batch of Japanese anime to appear in video shops in the UK were resolutely aimed at the disturbed 13 year old boy market.…
2 CommentsMy last post about the magazine Worlds of If generated quite a bit of interest so I thought I’d post a few more covers so…
2 CommentsI first came across the magazine Worlds of If in 1974, in a little news kiosk on the Via Veneto in Rome. It was amongst…
2 CommentsTwo reviews stand out on the back of Alexander Thynn’s self-published 1976 epic The King is Dead. Princess Zouina Benhalla (yes she really does exist…
2 CommentsRodney Matthews appeared out of nowhere in the mid 1970s. At that time the one-stop shop in the UK for posters to adorn bedroom walls…
Leave a CommentI’ve just spent a week in Yorkshire visiting my parents, who live in the shadow of Ilkley Moor. It’s not far from Haworth where the…
2 CommentsHoliday afternoons were a bit of a wasteland in the late 1960s. There were three TV channels in the UK and no video recorders. Nothing…
4 CommentsI’ve just spent a few days in Latvia at a UNESCO conference on education. The delegates were mainly from Central Asia and Eastern Europe, so…
1 CommentRight now I’m in the beautiful ski resort of Kransjka Gora in Slovenia. Out of my hotel window I can see the Julian Alps rising…
1 CommentThe cinema industry has a poor track record when it comes to films of H. P. Lovecraft’s stories. Despite his often turgid prose, the piling…
2 CommentsI admit that this review is going to be a bit biased. As I’ve said before, when I read Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Martian series as…
4 CommentsTars Tarkas riding a Thoat on Barsoom, yesterday. OK – ticket’s booked for tomorrow at the Odeon in 3D IMAX. Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian…
Leave a CommentOne of the most disturbing children’s stories ever published is “The New Mother” by Lucy Clifford. It appeared in the anthology of tales Anyhow Stories,…
Leave a CommentIn the 1970s two cover artists stood out among the piles of books in the little science fiction corner at W. H. Smiths Harrogate –…
3 CommentsThumb is set at the very end of the Universe when all the stars have vanished and we have entered the phase called the heat…
Leave a CommentI’m a huge fan of 3d animation, though like many I think that the cool visual factor can get in the way of the story.…
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