This year’s festival seemed a good deal bigger. Circumstances got in the way of attending all the events I’d have liked but you do what you can. Unlike last year’s blogathon (beginning here) it’ll be just this post.
Kate has been writing for 18 – 20 years. Her early works were Continue reading
Have to blog this. Writing means not just having the correct form of words, but capturing the essence of a thought. The way it comes out is the form.
Going back to 06/09/2016, we were in the middle of preparing to move house. Continue reading
“Backlash as watchdog closes probe into KPMG’s doomed HBOS audit”
KPMG audited HBOS in 2007. HBOS had to be bailed out following extreme financial conditions in late 2008 (ie the debt crisis). Continue reading
The Guardian ran an article on Dick’s Best Novels chosen by Nicola Barker, Michael Moorcock, and Adam Roberts on 27th August 2017 at Philip K Dick Best Novels. There’s all the normal stuff you’d expect to see – Adam Roberts sensibly chose Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? You find out Moorcock’s take on Dick –as editor of New Worlds, Moorcock sought out voices to flesh out his vision of Science Fiction, indeed Moorcock was one of the high prophets of New Wave SF. Nicola Barker’s take set my brain into gear.
Dick: “the core of my writing is not art, but truth”, and – still more perplexingly: “I am a fictionalising philosopher, not a novelist.” Continue reading
Supermassive black holes lie at the heart of many – probably all – galaxies. There’s one in the core of the Milky Way. Continue reading
A long awaited piece of work – process mapping for a high street name – is close. While I’ve been plotting that into my diary, my middle daughter has finally, at the age of 20, cut the apron strings to home… again. Continue reading
Arrow Books 1971 paperback, 224pp, ISBN 0 09 003890 8
front cover
This collection is a fingers up to both the literary establishment and the normal reading public. There’s so little SF, that the back cover blurb:
From the world of Science Fiction writing there has come a totally new literature, a Space Age fiction…
is nonsense. Continue reading
Just finished The Neried. About myths, legends and homelessness; set in Blackpool.
My next piece is proper SF Core. Set in the core of the Milky Way, in the Galactic Bar. Explores the issues of lots of aliens living together —gender, sexuality, politics, alien civilisation. ETA: unknown – it’s set 30 Galactic Years in the past I should be, maybe, using something different than ETA as that implies future 🙂 🙂 – length: unknown —I’ll see how things hang after a few trial chapters.
From a world of ignorance and savagery to light
From a universe in which no one knows anything to one in which Godly awareness and foreknowledge is just the first step. Check your bearings.
The development of SF maps the growth in understanding of Western Man, suggesting future paths
e.g. step into knowledge – add what’s watching, add constraints…
The first step.
└─> Outside your field of view a gift
– to bring us into their power
– or to make us something stunted / locked / harmless Continue reading
When I start a new piece my first consideration is theme. If it’s not SF, it’ll be short and I generally launch straight into it, knowing it’ll be out of the way in a day or two.
SF poses additional considerations, for example what, exactly, is it going to be about? Have I read anything similar or, if not, Continue reading
It’s time to go through stuff. I’ve shedloads, literally: comics, SF paperbacks, & Fantasy, Penguin Classics, PC Games (in their boxes) etc.
This time it’s my back catalogue. Continue reading
