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Gallifrey One 2022
It’s now more than two weeks since my return from the all-vaxxed, all-masked 32nd Gallifrey One, the big annual Doctor Who convention in Los Angeles. They had to skip last year because of Covid and capped this year’s attendance at 2,600 to reduced crowding. After two transatlantic flights and a weekend spent mingling with more…
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Auction for Ukraine: Warriors’ Gate in rare hardcover
Johnny Mains is running an auction of books, scripts, and other genre-related goodies, many of them donated or signed by the creators, to raise funds for Red Cross humanitarian aid in Ukraine. That’s a screenshot but you can click here for the actual link. Among the lots on offer is this: One of a short…
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Stephen Couper and the Old Stuff
Stephen who, you may ask? Well, there’s a story. This covers shot was posted on social media by novelist, games lead writer and tie-in king Steven Savile. Steve is a friend and, Gawd bless ‘im, also a completist collector of my stuff. These pseudonymous ’80s paperbacks filled a last gap on the shelf, he reckons.…
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News, Unexpected
So look what popped up in my Twitter timeline yesterday, and I’m grateful to Charles for passing it on; The Governess, a chapbook put together as a labour-of-love lockdown project, has received this recognition from the Arthur Conan Doyle Society. The announcement came in its inaugural Doylean Honours Awards ceremony, streamed live from Manhattan’s Mysterious…
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FAUSTINE
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Winter Tales
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New Deal, Mister Bond
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Kicking Off The Sixties
This posting from Network’s Twitter feed didn’t so much trigger a memory as confirm one. Somewhere in the back of my mind lurks the vivid image of a life-sized Supercar, complete with life-sized test pilot Mike Mercury, revealed at the centre of the revolve in the end credits of Sunday Night at the London…
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“How do I get my script read?”
“Any advice for getting a script read by some influential people?” A question asked of me recently that’s impossible to answer in just a few words. But here’s the digest version. My experience is that “influence” is mostly a public illusion of power, and it’s no subsitute for the actual ability to get stuff made,…
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Arts Aplenty. Or Rather, Not
“Get the scientists working on the tube technology immediately”—Tenacious D, City Hall I haven’t known many Politics graduates, but daily observation suggests a political class to whom science is a house servant, to be instructed or overruled as required, while the arts are a hobby like your cousin’s am dram or your widowed uncle’s watercolours.…
Hauling Like A Brooligan
Stephen Gallagher
