Richard K. Morgan's Blog, page 14

My balanced and carefully considered review of Avatar:

Very Pretty.

My balanced and carefully considered review of Avatar:

Very Pretty.

A Long Drive and A Good Cause

Good cause first, obviously. Would you like one of these?

More importantly, would you like to contribute some dollars to an undiluted good cause, to wit, the protection of children from exploitation and abuse. The guys at Ten Angry Pitbulls have come up with a cool way to raise funds for this advocacy group, and they've managed to sign up a number of authors to the gig, among them such luminaries as Andrew Vachss, Dennis Lehane and Nick Hornby - and me. Quite how I end up in such august a...

A Long Drive and A Good Cause

Good cause first, obviously. Would you like one of these?

More importantly, would you like to contribute some dollars to an undiluted good cause, to wit, the protection of children from exploitation and abuse. The guys at Ten Angry Pitbulls have come up with a cool way to raise funds for this advocacy group, and they've managed to sign up a number of authors to the gig, among them such luminaries as Andrew Vachss, Dennis Lehane and Nick Hornby – and me. Quite how I end up in such august a...

I got one!

Well, it took quite a while for this to happen, but here we are. I pop open my mails yesterday, and find the following. Quote:

Mr. Morgan,
It is unfortunate that you have decided to become an agent of subversion for the homosexual lobby. I quite liked your books until now.
Seeing as you did not bother to offer (me the reader) the courtesy of indicating the abnormal political/sexual sub-plot of your book on it's dust jacket, I choose to reciprocate by not offering you the cour...

I got one!

Well, it took quite a while for this to happen, but here we are. I pop open my mails yesterday, and find the following. Quote:

Mr. Morgan,
It is unfortunate that you have decided to become an agent of subversion for the homosexual lobby. I quite liked your books until now.
Seeing as you did not bother to offer (me the reader) the courtesy of indicating the abnormal political/sexual sub-plot of your book on it's dust jacket, I choose to reciprocate by not offering you the...

Land of the Free to Get your Head Kicked In

And Home of the Brave Pepper-Spray Wielding Uniformed Thugs.

So this week Peter Watts, brilliant Canadian hard SF writer, marine biology PhD, good e-cquaintance of mine, and by all accounts all round nice guy in the flesh, was pepper-sprayed, beaten up, and imprisoned by US border guards as he tried to leave the US for Canada. His crime apparently consisted of having the temerity, when pulled over, to exit his vehicle and ask what was going on (twice, because they ignored him the first time h...

Land of the Free to Get your Head Kicked In

And Home of the Brave Pepper-Spray Wielding Uniformed Thugs.

So this week Peter Watts, brilliant Canadian hard SF writer, marine biology PhD, good e-cquaintance of mine, and by all accounts all round nice guy in the flesh, was pepper-sprayed, beaten up, and imprisoned by US border guards as he tried to leave the US for Canada. His crime apparently consisted of having the temerity, when pulled over, to exit his vehicle and ask what was going on (twice, because they ignored him the first time h...

The Good, the Bad and the Utterly Fucking Banal

So my local DVD rental store has this 3 for 2 deal on new(ish) releases, and as a result I've recently found myself watching a lot of add-on, look-it's-for-no-extra-charge-might-as-well-have-it, third-choice movies.

Depressingly, a high proportion of these have been SF.

Equally depressingly, on viewing these movies, my lowered, oh-well-not-like-I-paid-for-it expectations have been pretty much seamlessly met.

Is it just me? Let's see. Here, in alphabetical order, are the last three SF mov...

The Good, the Bad and the Utterly Fucking Banal

So my local DVD rental store has this 3 for 2 deal on new(ish) releases, and as a result I've recently found myself watching a lot of add-on, look-it's-for-no-extra-charge-might-as-well-have-it, third-choice movies.

Depressingly, a high proportion of these have been SF.

Equally depressingly, on viewing these movies, my lowered, oh-well-not-like-I-paid-for-it expectations have been pretty much seamlessly met.

Is it just me? Let's see. Here, in alphabetical order, are the last three SF...