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Ye Canna Change The Laws O’ Physics
Due to some sort of alien sabotage, my server has exploded with a resulting loss of website and email. Mr Scott is hard at work in the depths of the engine room trying to get it fixed even as we speak, but I don’t know how long it’ll take. Or how long the artificial gravity […]
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Bow before my science-fictional knowledge
First place. Xbox 360 and more DVDs than you can shake a stick at. Damn, we’re good.
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The Five Stages of Grief
I’ve moved through Denial and am now onto Anger. I mean, seriously London, WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING? Did you just suddenly wake up STUPID yesterday? I am so angry about this, I’m in serious danger of
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Hooray For Us!
This just in from the Guardian: Being Human, the flatshare-with-monsters show that I raved about along with Oli, Jason, Rob, and David has been commissioned to series. Not only does this prove that we are all gentlemen of exquisite taste, but also that quality genre series have a home on British TV, and that willing […]
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Rogers Moore
John Rogers is a rather fine screenwriter. His works include the vastly under-rated The Core, and a pilot for a Global Frequency TV show (which, sadly, wasn’t picked up). He also wrote one of the drafts of Catwoman, and was unfortunate enough to have his name on the finished product. But he’s really sorry about […]
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Letters from America: Introduction
Gah. Haven’t posted a thing on the blog for a couple of weeks. This must stop. Lest Stuart Perry decide that it’s Karma Payback Time and swing by for a drive-by commenting, I have a new plan. Reprints. As popularised by Danny Stack, the plan is a simple one. Should I not have anything interesting […]
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Suddenly, I feel strangely professional
The first time I’ve ever been interviewed, and it’s out now. You can read my witterings about how the state of modern SF is affected by the times in which we live in this month’s issue of SciFiNow, available from all good newsagents. Every time I think about it, I still get slightly surprised.
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Slacktivism
So, apparently Internet Petitions aren’t worth the photons they’re written with. Which might be considered a shame if, like me, you’d signed one recently in an attempt to get a second series of Being Human commissioned. Oops. This phenomenon is known as Slacktivism. It’s like activism, only it doesn’t require you to get your hands […]
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Tell your grandchildren you were there…
Jonathan Coulton is playing his first ever UK gig at Dingwalls in Camden this coming Thursday. If you don’t know JoCo, he’s behind some classic tunes including Re: Your Brains, a rather fine cover of Sir Mix-a-lot’s Baby Got Back and the, frankly, heartbreaking love song Code Monkey. Not to mention the fact that he […]
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A Diet of Early Worms
Just bought my ticket for this years Screenwriters Festival. There are 15 Early Bird tickets left as I post – save yourself thirty quid by picking one up now! More money-saving tips from last year.