Tim Kring, the creator of Heroes, has apologised for the slow start to series 2 (rumours of which tend to fall into this is awful) and that it wil get back to doing what it’s good (certainly not romance) after the Writer’s Strike ends. He commented, “The message is that we’ve heard the complaints and [...]
Sometimes things come from chance. I was looking for an article on Joel Chandler Harris and came across this one about Octavia Butler, “Do I look like someone you can come home to from where you may be going?”: re-mapping interracial anxiety in Octavia Butler’s Kindred from the Spring 2007 issue of the African American [...]
Simon Morden holds degrees in geology and planetary geophysics but that didn’t stop him from writing fiction. His first novel was Heart (2002), a contemporary fantasy with Arthurian undertones. His latest book, The Lost Art (2007), is an sf novel with strong fantasy undertones which I rated highly as a really good, thoughtful read when [...]