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January 26, 2021
13 and Jan 6th – A Juxtaposition

Science fiction as prophesy is a notoriously tough gig. At best, you can try for a kind of scattergun effect – some hits, some misses, and let’s hope the hits have enough good effect on target to carry the day. Even (rightly) revered Godfather of Cyberpunk William Gibson is forced to cut a wry smile as he points out that his seminal novel Neuromancer, so culturally prescient in so many other ways, managed to completely miss the rise of the mobile phone. The iconic movie Bladerunner, habit...
December 13, 2020
Passport Blues (Or – my heart bleeds for slightly less than half of Cornwall)
As we approach the December 31st run up to shit creek and our inevitable tumble into it, this is going to be my last and definitive comment on the mess that is Brexit; I’ve ranted about it on Twitter over the last four years, and it hasn’t helped – I’ve just ended up more enraged with every tweet. It is time to put it to bed. I can’t say I’ve made my peace with Brexit, because that would be akin to making peace with someone who broke into your house, stole your car keys and your favourite coat...
November 15, 2020
Feeding on Flowers and Fireworks
This has always been my favourite dystopian novel. Re-reading it a couple of weeks ago, I was chilled all over again by how effective it is. Orwell’s 1984 is bleaker, Huxley’s Brave New World is kookier, but Bradbury’s entry into the form achieves something I don’t think either of its – arguably more famous – cousins do. It feels utterly real. It feels like something that could actually happen.
Some days, in fact, I think it already has.
Our widescreen TVs may not quite occupy whol...
October 15, 2020
Sweet Dreams
Imagination’s a funny thing – you think you’ve described something perfectly clearly in one of your books, and then someone shows up with a piece of fan art (or indeed an entire TV show full of actors, sets and locations!) and what that person has taken from the book doesn’t necessarily gel with what you saw in your own mind at all. Which is totally cool – Death of the Author and all that.
But Lena Stepanenko sidestepped that one utterly when she decided to sit down and paint the Long Runner...
October 3, 2020
Grim, Dark and Cancel
Did a long interview with the very lovely Beth Tabler for Grimdark Magazine a few weeks back, in which Beth put some very thought provoking questions and we covered vast swathes of ground – from gay swordsmen and classical heroes to cyberpunk and cancel culture.
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August 25, 2020
Worth Noting 3
For anyone still feeling uninformed and hesitant about the exact intensity of attack women’s rights are under as a result of hardline trans activism, you could do a lot worse than follow (fellow scribe and Twitter expulsee) Graham Linehan’s posts on his site The Cry of Glinner right here.
The link above is to a fairly typical round-up page of TRA atrocity, of which Linehan posts fresh examples on a frequent basis. But there are other gems, among them commentary on the brutal lack of concern ...
July 24, 2020
Ghosts and Deja Vu
I am really enjoying Ghost of Tsushima – as much as anything for the sheer pleasure of spending time in the world – but I can’t help the repeated sensation of flashback to this.
It’s not helping me take the marauding Mongol horde seriously, I have to say………..
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June 28, 2020
The Last of Us 2, The Worst of Us Too
Yup, just finished it.
Or – more accurately – finished it a couple of days ago, and have been sitting here ever since with a hollow ache inside me and a seething cauldron of questions, ideas and issues that need airing.
Which pretty much makes The Last of Us 2 a major gaming triumph, right?That much can’t be in dispute – can it?
Then I look at Da Internet and……..
Jesus F Christ, the vitriol. The rage. The hate.
Like Joel and Ellie asked themselves so many times along the way i...
June 27, 2020
The Last of Us 2, The Worst of Us Too (teaser)
June 11, 2020
Worth Noting 2
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