Celebrated sci-fi author China Mieville has written this post for The Wall Street Journal to explain just why CGI is rotting sci fi cinema from the inside. For the most part, I’m only too happy to agree with him. If you ever read my post about Pixar, you’ll know that I like CGI only if […]
Silver Blade – A Spot of Promotion
There are an awful lot of online magazines and anthologies out there in the cobwebby recesses of the Internet, and I thought I would take this opportunity to briefly swing my torch and shine its light onto one of my favourites, Silver Blade. Yes, it’s true, I am slightly biased towards them as they’ve published […]
Creativity game
There seem to be posts on creativity all over the blogosphere at the moment, two of the best being Melissa Donovan’s post over at Writing Forward and Mary Jaksch’s post at Write to Done. I remember one person saying that you couldn’t describe yourself as ‘creative’ unless you did anything deemed to be such, since […]
I write, therefore I am…or something.
Receptionists will tell you they are receptionists. Solicitors will tell you they are solicitors. Yet writers will tell you they’re “trying to write”, or they’re “working on being a writer”. They rarely own up to what they actually are. If you write, then you’re a writer. It’s that simple. (For a better explanation of this […]
2010: Those pesky ‘resolutions’
2009 has slunk off quietly to crawl under the rock from whence it came, and now we’re in a shiny new year. Well, in time honoured tradition, I’m not making resolutions for the New Year. Why? Because it’s intrinsic to my nature to break them. I’ll resolve to lose weight while eating “just one more” […]
Science fiction or science fact?
The BBC’s festive adaptation of John Wyndham’s classic The Day of the Triffids has really gotten me thinking about the recent resurgence of science fiction into mainstream culture. I’m actually really glad that the BBC got their hands on Triffids since it will hopefully delay any godawful Hollywood version (probably starring Shia LaBoeuf) that may […]
