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May 20, 2020

Read and Recommended

Christ, has it really been 4 years since I last did one of these??! Not surprisingly, rather a lot to choose from, then. Away we go!





You Were Never Really There – Jonathan Ames



No surprise to say I was drawn to this barely-novella-length piece after seeing the stellar movie with Joaquin Phoenix. In narrative terms, it’s a little bit different from the film, but the same bleak tone is there, along with a wonderful blend of the terse and the lyrical in the writing. I confess I struggled...

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Published on May 20, 2020 10:58

April 28, 2020

One from the Vaults; Broadswords, Incest and the Path of Dreams

As a minor by-product of lockdown and living without social media, Ive had occasion to do some desktop tidying recently, and in the process stumbled on a previously unsuspected cache of scribbled bits and pieces long filed away. Among them is this heartfelt paean/trip down memory lane, written for Gollancz back in 2014 to celebrate Michael Moorcocks upcoming 75th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his first book publication. Im not sure if Gollancz ever used it in the end. But re-reading...

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Published on April 28, 2020 06:22

March 31, 2020

April is the Coolest Month

Because starting tomorrow, April 1st, all you lucky, lucky people will be able to pick up a Kindle edition of Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Woken Furies for the princely sum of 99p each!

Get em while theyre hot!

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Published on March 31, 2020 07:49

March 29, 2020

Worth Noting

The insanity continues..

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Published on March 29, 2020 10:11

March 24, 2020

At the Coalface.

Ive watched with some amusement the noisy scramble among the genre commentariat to enthuse about Altered Carbon S2s enhanced diversity this time around. Add to that some bemusement too, because how its any more diverse than Season 1 is beyond me. But then Im the guy who struggled to understand two years ago how casting a character called Takeshi Kovacs as a Swedish-American was scandalous whitewashing, but casting a character called Nadia Makita as an African-American wastotally fucking cool,...

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Published on March 24, 2020 10:57

March 10, 2020

Tadaima!

Something deeply fitting about the fact that Takeshi has found his way into genuine Japanese cultural territory.

It’s no secret that I was heavily influenced by Japanese cinema, literature and even cuisine when I was writing the Kovacs novels. More than just a further welcome development of the IP, this feels like a weird kind of Homecoming.

Cannot wait!

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Published on March 10, 2020 03:45

March 2, 2020

The Elephant in the Room 2 – I Show you How Deep the Rabbit Hole goes.

Update 2/3/20 – I am now not on Mastodon!

Received this e-mail today:

As rabbit holes go, this one is burrowing pretty deep, right? Could not resist sending back a WTF response. Got this charming reply:

Hi,

I read your blog and decided that your kind of rhetoric isn’t wanted on mastodon.social. You aren’t convincing me with such terf nonsense.

Thanks,

Eve

Round of applause for Eve there, ladies and gentlemen. Note that this has nothing to do with anything I wrote on Mastodon itself – only...

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Published on March 02, 2020 14:01

February 5, 2020

The Elephant in the Room

I am now on Mastodon! Feel free to swing by and follow me at

@Quellist1Resleeved@mastodon.social

In all likelihood, I won’t be posting there as frequently as I was on Twitter – I’ve got a lot on at the moment, and getting banned was something of a blessing in disguise, providing me with an easy excuse to dial back my SM presence. Call it an involuntary New Year’s resolution. But you will get regular updates on my books, any appearances I make, some (judicious, I hope) grumpy political...

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Published on February 05, 2020 07:19

January 22, 2020

So there’s this…..

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Published on January 22, 2020 01:48

January 11, 2020

The Trouble with Twitter 2: 2020 Vision.

Oops, I did it again…….

Downstream of the dumpster fire that’s blown up around my support for J K Rowling’s tweet in support of Maya Forstater, I have once again been banned from Twitter, and this time it looks serious. (For those not in the know, google those two names together and you should come away up to speed). In essence, I gave notice that I would not tolerate anybody using the slur TERF on my timeline, and that anyone who insisted would be blocked. Cue a long line of angry Trans...

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Published on January 11, 2020 11:38

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