I’m quite pleased with myself today – I finally finished China Mieville’s Iron Council this morning, meaning that I have started on the right path towards completing one of my New Year goals. That is, I wanted to read at least one novel every month for the whole year. Now, I’ll be honest with you. […]
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Science, Or Why I Don’t Just Do Art
It’s not something that I talk about all that often, but I am actually a great lover of science. My dad is an engineer, so I’ve had an awareness of the rational forces that hold the fabric of the universe together since I was little (he once helped me make a warren truss bridge out […]
Still Running (Flash Fiction)
Apologies for the lapse in blogging, dear friends – real life had that annoying habit of getting in the way. Weddings, interviews – that sort of thing. Anyway. I’ve just been looking back through my notebook and discovered I actually have some reasonably decent work squirrelled away in there, so I must prompt myself to […]
We’re on The Road to nowhere…
Let me get this out of the way before I get to the meatiest part of my post. The Road is a very beautifully-shot, gorgeous film, and I can’t fault its cinematography. However, it feels to me like it’s related to one of those vapid bimbos that you come across from time to time – […]
Another piece published!
t is with great delight that I use this post to publicise the fact that I have another piece of fiction online! You can find it at The Tomlit Quarterly, in issue two. It’s available as a free PDF, which means not only do you get my short piece, Cold, you also get tons of […]
To CGI, or not CGI…don’t make the Phantom Menace mistake
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 […]
