Children’s dystopian fiction and guilty pleasures

Imogen Russell Williams has an intriguing piece on the children’s dystopian fiction on the Guardian books blog. It seems to me that it fits in well with one of the processes of children’s literature, that the discourse is there to jab the reader into some sort of action to prevent the calamity. It does run [...]

Machinima shorts on the BBC

Tracy Harwood, the Manager of the Machinima Festival Europe 07, has an article on machinima which shows some of here favourites. I’ve looked at the form before but decided to leave to those who are good at it. The classic Red versus Blue, an episodic story about two soldiers on opposing sides questioning their raison [...]