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Shiny!

 August 31, 2025

As you might have noticed, I’ve had a bit of a clearout. 🙂 Over the long, long years the site had accumulated a lot of posts which, quite frankly, weren’t doing any useful business any more. You don’t really need to know…

The Jurassic Chronicles

 August 23, 2025

Journey back to the most incredible adventure of all, back through the gates of the Jurassic era, back to a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. In this title in the acclaimed ‘Future Chronicles’ series of speculative fiction anthologies created by award-winning…

The Crystal Sword

 August 21, 2025

So I have a new novella out. It’s called The Crystal Sword and is the first in a new series in the genre of what used to be known as Planetary Romance (or sometimes Sword & Planet) – a genre which features…

Into The Dark

 August 12, 2023

[blows dust off the blog] Well. Hello. Been a while since I’ve powered this thing up. I’ve got a new book out. It’s called Into The Dark and is a collection of science fiction / horror short stories. About 28,000 words of…

Gilgamesh Reviews Roundup

 October 18, 2017

“Writer Piers Beckley artfully condenses the source material to create a lively story that plays out in a mix of poetry, prose and song. The icing on the cake however is Ray Shell’s boisterous direction, which remains sympathetic to the spirit of…

The Other Possessory Credit

 June 28, 2012

You’ve seen them already, but you may not know what they’re called. When a movie has the credit as “A Film By” followed by a name (and it’s almost always the director’s name), that credit is known as a possessory credit. The director…

The McGrath Point

 July 12, 2010

Contains spoilers for the first few episodes of Lost and Firefly. Denis McGrath is off to Los Angeles. Possibly for good. And his blog, in its current format at least, is going into the long archive. So as we bid him farewell…

Unimportant Things

 March 19, 2009

One of those old blog-games that used to go around back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. List six unimportant things about yourself. Thing The First In my early twenties I contracted Bell’s Palsy. One of the nerves in my neck became inflamed,…