When I was 12 my mother did something she would come to regret for the next 10 years. Her dad (my grandfather) was a…
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I recently came across an animated version of Edwin Abbott’s eccentric classic Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. In the original story the narrator, and inhabitant…
Leave a CommentIn the mid 1970s New English Library published the magazine Science Fiction Monthly, a huge format magazine which reprinted book covers by the likes of Chris Foss…
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While we’re on the topic of software for writers I thought I’d have a look at Dramatica Pro (http://www.dramatica.com, $209 for the download version). Some…
46 CommentsScrivener is a fantastic piece of software for writers. The program was developed by a writer who was hunting for some software to help him…
2 Comments“The architect admired the way the way the building was crafted; it was all stone with curvy arches like an old church.” The shelves are…
Leave a CommentIf there is one book that should be banned as dangerous and subversive it’s The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook by Chris Jones and Genevieve Joliffe.…
Leave a CommentIt might seem a bit sad to rave about a book on style and grammar, but the third edition of Guardian Style is both hugely useful…
Leave a CommentAgora (2009) tells the story of the brilliant philosopher and mathematician Hypatia, who lived in Alexandria at the beginning of the 5th century. Renowned for…
Leave a CommentNot surprisingly over the past few years people’s ideas of British post-war fantasy have been been dominated by J. R. R. Tolkein’s The Lord of the…
1 CommentThe Night Land (1912) has to be one of the oddest books ever written. It was penned by William Hope Hodgson, an English author who produced…
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