They never saw it coming, the finish line ...
July 11, 2015
The Race
11July
March 13, 2015
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
13March
The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (historical Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that pervades the imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors. Some residents say this town was bewitched during the early days of the Dutch settlement. Other residents...
March 5, 2015
The State of the Art
05March
Some of these works feel like ideas from a writer’s notebook that would go on to form the basis of a fully fledged novel or part of a greater story. Each is of interest to anybody following the Culture series as they provide an excellent background to the Culture and the early work of Iain M Banks, though none are essential to the understanding and reading of the main Culture novels in my view.
February 22, 2015
Feersum Endjinn
22February
The book is set on a far-future Earth where the uploading of mindstates into a world-spanning computer network (known as “the data corpus”, “cryptosphere” or simply “crypt”) is commonplace, allowing the dead to be easily reincarnated (though by custom, only a limited number of reincarnations are allowed). Humanity has lost much of its technological background...
February 20, 2015
Andromeda McKee Trilogy
20February
These three books by William C Dietz are a prequel series to the Legion of the Damned series. Here is the publisher's summary. I'll return to my thoughts after these messages ...
June 28, 2014
The First Watch
28June
Further to A New Worldview where we provided some commentary and analysis of the 6EQUJ5 (cygnus) signals decrypted from SETI thus far, we have uncovered a communication which offers some insight into the 'elders' mentioned in the original memory fragments (assuming they are the same).
April 19, 2014
A New Worldview
19April
The signal was first discovered in 1977 in the 1420MHz band and lasted for only 72 seconds. No further signals have been detected since, though advancing encryption techniques have shown that this signal was, in fact, a data packet with a subspace encryption envelope around a 4D energy envelope.
April 2, 2014
On Fox Spirits
02April
Fox spirits occupy the same mythological niche as the faerie in Western mythology. They are beautiful beyond endurance, elusive, powerful, mischievous and vindictive. In Chinese mythology, the human form is the pinnacle of creation. All animals, and sometimes plants seek to achieve human form on their way to immortality ...
March 10, 2014
Chasing Cthulhu: The Lovecraft Movie Grail
10March
I read HP Lovecraft in my teens and early twenties. Like many of my friends, we all enjoyed a good scare and Lovecraft provided something primaeval in his mythos. Films such as The Evil Dead and Reanimator supported this stage of life, but were they really any good and true to the books? Returning to the stories 20+ years on with talk of a movie that will ‘finally’ give us the Lovecraft movie we...
July 22, 2013
The Car
22July
The rains have been ...
