Grummellings One: A podcast

I’ve just loaded my very first podcast, entitled Grummellings: an interview with Charles Stross done at the end of last year. We talk about the Singularity, his current novel, Glasshouse, Jennifer Morgue hb & Jennifer Morgue pb, his forthcoming novel, Halting State, Second Life and virtual reality.

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Facing up to our present

The postman brought me a copy of Ray Bradbury’s The Dragon Who Ate His Tail this week whilst it was snowing. Its a chapbook with three short stories, commentary by Donn Allbright and Ray Bradbury, artwork and also a film treatment from the 1990s.

The eponymous short story was publshed in the 1950s but its theme [...]

American Fantasy

The new edition of PostScripts magazine has come in and once again it’s a thought provoking issues.The outstanding story for me in terms of setting and atmosphere was Jack Dann’s extension of his Rebel universe, taking in James Dean, Jack Kerouac and Elvis. I thought that he really brought out the non-public sie of all [...]