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Nuggets
Early last year I completed a questionnaire circulated by the editors of Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association. I was a member of the BSFA for a while, before I found that my changing tastes and inclinations meant that the British Fantasy Society was probably more for me; on moving over,…
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WTF?
No, don’t get excited. That isn’t the cover of a genuine Eleventh Hour mass-market edition. It’s the Chinese bootleg – at least, I’m assuming it’s a bootleg, unless fractured English and a Showtime logo on the back of the sleeve are the mark of an official release. A couple of days ago I got an…
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Patient John
This kind of explains itself… every couple of weeks the Writers’ Guild e-bulletin compiles a list called What Members Are Getting Up To and every time I get up to something, I forget to tell anyone until it’s too late. The Forgotten Season 1 Episode 11 Patient John – Press Release A MAN’S MONEY-MAKING WAY…
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Movies of the Year
It’s awards voting time again and although in previous years I’ve kept a strict silence over my preferences, I’ve noticed that I seem to be the only one doing it. I suppose it’s hubris to imagine that anyone really cares… so in the interests of humility I’ll tell you what I’ve liked this year. I’ve…
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John Wyndham and Me
I haven’t seen the new adaptation of The Day of the Triffids yet – the parts are lined up on my hard drive, ready for when I’ve fought my way through all the BAFTA screeners in time for the next round of voting – but this review on the Blowing my Thought Wad blog inspired…
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What I Learned in 2009
It’s been in my mind to write a long post along the lines of “what I learned in 2009”, but until I can set some time aside to think-through and process the whole experience of relocating from one country’s industry to work in another, it’ll have to wait. It would be simplistic to say that…
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Where Are They Now?
Congratulations to Sir Patrick Stewart on his knighthood and to Marley Shelton on the birth of her daughter. Safe to say that I can claim no credit for either.
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Daniel Defoe
Channel Five have been running Crusoe episodes every day throughout the holidays. Despite any initial reservations, now that I’ve seen how they play I think it’s been a good piece of scheduling. The show makes good, old-fashioned holiday fare. The first hour of my 2-part finale went out today… one regret I have is that…
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“Good Sentences, and Well Pronounced”
Someone once asked me how to go about achieving a writing style. Like the caterpillar challenged about its coordination in walking, I stumbled as soon as I started thinking about it. I think the best answer I could offer was that you should try to state the obvious simply, and the style would take care…
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Seen on Hollywood Boulevard
On the open street just along from the Egyptian Theater, this charming and child-friendly scene: And when you look more closely:
Hauling Like A Brooligan
Stephen Gallagher
