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Futura Science Fiction Convention
The FUTURA science-fiction convention takes place at the Light House, Wolverhampton, 15th June I shall be taking part in panels and a Kaffee Klatsch. Come…
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The Last Days of Loss
I have a picture here on my desk, drawn when I was 17. I seemed to have spent my life up to the age of…
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Serial Fiction
Just in case you haven’t seen the other posts, tweets, adverts or fliers… This Easter my wife and I launched a new magazine called Aethernet.…
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Plot and Character
Marcus Gipps asked an interesting question on a panel at EightSquaredCon: do writers think of the plot first and then try to think of characters…
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protected void onCreate(Bundle icicle)
I heard a radio program a while back about found poetry. My favourite example was the message you see written out on the buttons you…
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Eclecticism
A while ago I bought a USB turntable to transfer my records from vinyl to MP3. I copied a few across, but gave up in the…
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Cosmopolitan Predators!
… and now for something completely different. Not a novel, not a series of short stories, but a little bit of both. I had the…
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500 Horse Burgers
It’s interesting to see how the media reacts to a story. When there’s a risk of infection, are they going to scaremonger or are they…
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A Forest
I attended some training this week on teaching literacy to teenagers. I was told that the key to persuasive writing was to remember A FOREST:…
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Les Miserables: Not SF
…well, you probably knew that anyway. I saw the film last weekend. I like musicals, though this one is not a favourite – I think…
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Stories from the Northern Road (Penrose 2.5)
The first ever collection from one of the UK’s finest SF authors: Tony Ballantyne, who has been a finalist for the Philip K Dick award…
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Colinthology
Colinthology is a collection of light-hearted, uplifting fantasy and SF short stories, put together in memory of Colin Harvey, who passed away suddenly in August 2011. All…
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