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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Can’t beat a good jingle
My dear friend Mark seems to being having success upon success with his Wired FM show ‘Cult Friction‘, a “new programme charting the wonderful surreal world of Science Fiction, Horror and all things cult from Movies to Comic Books, TV shows”. Using his nordie wiles, Mark has succeeded in conning his way into some notable… Read more
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100 Words
At P Con last week they ran a fun little contest. The idea was to produce a complete short story (SF, horror or fantasy) in just 100 words. In the end my efforts didn’t place, though I’m egotistical enough to suspect the judge didn’t grok them what-so-ever. Perhaps he just preferred the story about… Read more
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Two Businesses That Don’t Exist, But Should
I attended the Phoenix Convention last weekend. The con is a literary Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy gathering, which this year included some fascinating panels on micropublishing and ebooks, both easily worth the price of admission alone. I will hopefully do a more detailed post on the con as a whole in the near future,… Read more
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Cowen stripped naked and hanged.
The Taoiseach Brian Cowen made like Mussolini recently after he was stripped naked and hanged. And much like the rotund fascist he didn’t seem to take it too well. Indeed following this report by RTE our old friends at Fianna Fail and their media toadies threw their toys out of the pram, claiming that the… Read more
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Lawrence Lessig on the criminalisation of culture
Lawrence Lessig has consistently been one of the most important figures in the debate over copyright reform, ‘piracy’, and remix culture over the last decade. He’s recently switched his energies to battling the corrupting effect of PACs, lobbyists and outright bribery in the US political system, so it’s rare these days to hear him talk… Read more
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The Great Big SF Reading List
Display of ‘vintage’ science fiction titles in Chapters window Arthur C. Clark once called science fiction “The only genuinely mind expanding drug”, proof positive that he hadn’t tried any of the others. And yet, there’s something to this flippant quote. SF is the literary genre, next to the romantic novel, most often demeaned; despite this,… Read more
Gareth Stack 