I’m reading Getting to Know You, David Marusek’s collection of short fiction, and it really is a must read. There are only thirteen stories, his entire output, yet each one shows a writer getting to grips with his craft.
The Wedding Album is a fantastic story of AIs and cloning. He brings a humanity to the [...]
The opening story in Interfictions is Christopher Barzak’s ‘What We Know about the Lost Families of —– House’.
A strange story of the generations which have lived in a certain house, it reads like Shirley Jackson or as a small town novel.
The house itself, never named, looks throughout the story like a shape in fog, always [...]
Elizabeth Hand’s Generation Loss is a strange novel which reads as a crime book, a literary fantasy and a mimetic novel.
Cass Neary is a photographer who is tricked into covering a reclusive artist in Maine. Her punk glory days are over and she is a shattered wreck of her former glory. As she comes [...]
In one of those rare catch-up moments, I finished Terry Pratchett’s Wintersmith on Sunday which made me both laugh and reflect. His observation of foibles is, as ever, excellent but there is a reflective tone of melancholy to the series - perhaps a reflection of personal experience?
It strikes me that Tiffany has grown up really [...]
The Guardian ran a poll for books of the century which 1984 has won.
In some ways I can see why given the overt nature of CCTV, Internet censorship and media manipulation in recent years.
Fahrenheit 451 has not made the list yet it defines what is happening so much more clearly. 1984 was a book of its time [...]
Three hours of Pirates of the Caribbean and yes, I had a distinct lack of feeling. Anyhow (apart from the last an hour which could have shorter), I distinctly enjoyed it.
I got to thinking as the Pearl and Dutchman came together that perhaps it works as a fantasy because it maintains the essential truth of [...]
This series of Supernatural is full of in-references that got pulled to the limit yesterday. Early episodes has Linda Blair and Amber Benson in them and last night’s episode, I suspect, was about the making of horror films and tv, especially the schlockier sort. Apart from name checks for films such as Fear DotCom, it also [...]
The Guardian ran a piece on Nick Cave by Will Self which is revealing and interesting on both sides which coincides with Nick Cave: The Complete Lyrics. Jonathan Lethem was the focus of the main interview and I do find it bewildering that the Guardian’s interviewer seeks to reduce this transcendant author.
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Dark Horse have an online version of their new book, The Artist Within. Its a collection of photographs of various cartoon artists and their workspaces. Sort of like the current series of photographs in the Guardian review of writer’s workspaces.
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The Newsarama blog has news that Peter Straub will be co-writing Green Woman, a stand alone graphic novel, for them with Michael Easton. Staub is one of those awesome writers who neatly moves you without you even realising it and well as being one of those few writers who can indeed write a jazz short [...]