Grummellings 3: An interview with Cory Doctorow

Just posted an interview with Cory Doctorow in which he talks about Overclockedand science fiction.
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Grummellings2

I’ve just loaded the interview recorded with Ken Macleod, Farah Mendlesohn, Charles Stross and Chaz Brenchley at PicoCon where the anthology, Glorifying Terrorism, was discussed.
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The interview is round 20 minutes long.

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Dragons away - Naomi Novik’s Temeraire: Black Powder War

I finished the third part of Naomi Novik’s series last night and want more now! I thought that the first book had begin slowly but built a believable world which she has slowly extended into one that more often than not resemble the contemporary world - not that this is a bad thing.
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Giving life to the Machine of Death

I blogged about this anthology earlier and Matthew was kind enough to answer some questions. It certinaly seems an itneresting project and one I’ll be getting when it comes out.

What give the site the impetus to put such a project together? What are you hoping to achieve?
The original idea for the anthology came from an […]

Lost?

I have a confession: I’m lost with Lost. I’d really like a little more to come together and for it to make more sense (though I gather from rumours that there is some sort of ending in sight but will the series turn into another Twin Peaks?). This post is a good overview of what […]

Supernatural

I was hoping to blog this last night whilst my enthusiasm was still at fever pitch but I fell asleep. Last night’s programme was intriguing and developed the series; perhaps the shape of the coming rest of season can be seen now. 
The show’s discussion of the nature of the hunters and their prey was a little Buffy-esque (although is […]

Small con - BIG ideas: thoughts from PicoCon

You could have been forgiven for thinking that the new post-Singularity post-Soviet republic was being founded in Kensington with this year’s Guests of Honour - Ken Macleod, Charles Stross and Farah Mendlesohn.
Ken decided to give a talk on whatever came into his mind starting with a trip to New Zealand which introduced the theme of […]

Primeval - its certainly a soup

Having just made my supper after my return from PicoCon last night, I saw bits and pieces of Primeval. Can I please have those minutes of my life back? Its obiously ITV’s attempt at encroaching on the Dr Who market but the budget could have been better spent on doing some research than CGI monsters. […]

Reading others - isn’t that what we are supposed to do?

I went to PicoCon yesterday (con report coming later) and a couple of the talks covered the notion of difference. Farah, one of the Guests of Honour, mentioned receivng an article for the journal Foundation and, when making suggestions for further reading to improve the article’s argument, being told “I don’t read books by men”.

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Evelyn Pickering de Morgan

Thanks to Ariel at the Genre Files, I’ve just come across a gorgeous blog, Lines and Colours. This piece of work on  Evelyn Pickering de Morgan really caught my eye but I can so see myself getting lost in this blog. One to return to tonight.
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