My favourite John Hurt film has to be Michael Radford’s 1984, released in the same year, with Hurt as Winston Smith, Richard Burton as O’Brien…
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My favourite John Hurt film has to be Michael Radford’s 1984, released in the same year, with Hurt as Winston Smith, Richard Burton as O’Brien…
2 CommentsThere’s a poignant anecdote that Terry Pratchett once told about a book signing. A young woman in the queue told him that her father was…
19 CommentsHot on the heels of Peter A. Jones, here’s my tribute to another great SF artist who, sadly, is no longer with us. The vast…
4 CommentsThe Book of the Colossus is now complete with the final volume – Dark Feathered Hearts. “You shut us down in the darkness, you skin…
Leave a CommentJonathan Jones wrote an article in The Guardian in which he stated that he had never read Terry Pratchett and had no intention of doing…
Leave a CommentRemorseless, vicious and brilliant – General Crysanthe Uella has dedicated her life to ensuring humanity will escape from the embers of a dead universe. But…
Leave a CommentAs I’ve mentioned before, 1974 marked my Looking into Chapman’s Homer moment when on opening Science Fiction Monthly number 2 I had the same feelings…
3 CommentsGiordano Bruno (1548 – 1600) didn’t do himself any favours. Not only did he adhere to a set of particularly extraordinary heresies but he also…
3 CommentsI’ve finished the first draft of the third volume in the Book of the Colossus quadrilogy, AntiHelix, and put it to one side for a…
3 CommentsA while back I wrote a post about Tove Jansson’s last Moomin book, Moominvalley in November (1971), pointing out that behind the innocent guise of…
2 CommentsMax and Abby are trapped in the city of Interosseous where the inhabitants navigate through the treacherous streets using the giant faces in the…
Leave a CommentThe great news is that the manuscript for Ragged Claws is back from my editor, John Jarrold, and ready for the final knocking into shape…
1 CommentThis week’s post is a guest article by Jane Dougherty, the author of the wonderfully grim fantasy novel The Dark Citadel. First in a series,…
4 CommentsThe first draft of my next novel and sequel to Thumb, Ragged Claws, is now finished and tucked safely in a drawer for a month.…
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3 CommentsLike a moth to the flame I find myself once again drawn into the strange world of the Shakespeare authorship question, though this time it’s…
1 CommentIn the Wastelands at the end of time stands a house that contains the secret to humanity’s survival.
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