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Archive for February, 2010
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Paintings of the Week: Van Gogh
Posted on February 28, 2010 | No CommentsToday I am going to continue with the theme of Art and Madness. I got into this weird riff when I began showing pictures by the committed lunatic and sexual... -
The Week Reviewed
Posted on February 27, 2010 | No CommentsWriting isn’t the hardest job in the world – not by a long chalk. In fact, it comes very near the bottom of the list of hard jobs, well below... -
The Battle Between Good and Evil: The Rico Act
Posted on February 26, 2010 | 2 CommentsEarlier this week I linked to a Rolling Stone article written by Matt Taibbi which gave the best account I’ve ever read of the corrupt activities of certain financial organisations.... -
Marvellous Misfits
Posted on February 25, 2010 | No CommentsHere’s a great guest blog from Danny Stack, script writer and script editor and co-founder (with Tony Jordan) of the Red Planet Prize. Take it away Danny… —————————————————————- Why I... -
SFF Song of the Week: Stuart Angell McGregor
Posted on February 24, 2010 | 1 CommentIt’s a busy week this week on Debatable Spaces…further down the page, the great Basterds debate still rages…and tomorrow we have a guest blog from screenwriter and co-founder of the... -
SFF Heroes: Kara Thrace
Posted on February 23, 2010 | No CommentsRipley was the trail-blazer; but Kara Thrace (call sign ‘Starbuck’) is, for many of us, the quintessential female SF action hero. She’s a hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, maverick daughter-of-a-bitch who hates... -
Beware the plastic Cyborg Cop: the cover of Version 43
Posted on February 22, 2010 | 1 CommentI’ve been longing to share this for some time – and here it see. Lauren Panepinto’s cover design for my next book Version 43 (available in all good bookshops from October;... -
Why Scalzi is Wrong: the Great Basterds Debate
Posted on February 22, 2010 | 21 CommentsI woke up mulling about the John Scalzi column I read yesterday about why Quentin Tarantino’s movie Inglourious Basterds is NOT a science fiction movie as some (e.g. me) claim... -
Astronomy Photo of the Week
Posted on February 22, 2010 | No CommentsHere, courtesy of NASA, is an amazing image of a sillhouetted space shuttle Endeavour about to dock with the ISS. -
Reblog
Posted on February 22, 2010 | No CommentsSome internet treats, recent and not so recent, you might have missed… Graham Joyce betraying his father with a superglue story. Nicole Peeler revealing her musical taste to be wonderfully down... -
The Battle Between Good and Evil: The Big Con
Posted on February 21, 2010 | 1 CommentAdrian Reynolds sent me this, a definitive account of how the big banks are screwing us and risk destroying our economies and our entire way of life They are acting... -
Paintings of the Week
Posted on February 21, 2010 | No CommentsIt’s often said that genius is closely allied to madness – which is a great excuse for creative types to behave badly. But last’s week Paintings of the Week feature... -
Scalzi is Wrong!
Posted on February 20, 2010 | No CommentsThe great John Scalzi is almost always right. But this time – on the subject of whether Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is science fiction – he is, in my humble... -
The Fortnight Reviewed
Posted on February 20, 2010 | No CommentsLast weekend I vanished into a deep well of nostalgia and Welshness…it was my mother’s 80th birthday, which we celebrated down in Port Talbot, South Wales. And to honour the... -
SFF Song of the Week: Brian Ruckley
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsSoon after I first became a published Orbit author, I shared a book reading session at Alt Fiction in Derby with Stephen Hunt and Brian Ruckley – two delightful and... -
Coming Soon!
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsTomorrow in fact – it’s Brian Ruckley’s wonderful, electrifying, blow-me-it-takes-me-back-a-few-years choice of SFF SONG OF THE WEEK. Be here or be, um, somewhere else. -
Just because…
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsI’ve been thinking quite a bit this week about conspiracy theories. But I guess you already knew that, huh? FOR THE REST OF THIS GUEST BLOG ON THE ORBIT WEBSITE,... -
Astronomy Photo of the Week
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsThis is a night launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Amazing! An extra treat: this is from a series called ‘Alien Landscapes on Earth’. The copyright belongs to Martin Rietze,... -
Paintings of the Week
Posted on February 14, 2010 | No CommentsHere are two examples of ‘art brut’ from Swiss artist Adolf Wolfi. Art brut is a concept coined by the French artist Jean Dubuffet, and is sometimes called ‘naive art’... -
The Battle Between Good and Evil: Climate Change
Posted on February 11, 2010 | 6 CommentsI read a funny little article in my paper on Saturday by a witty, liberal, sweet columnist called Simon Hoggart. Here’s what he said: As a climate change agnostic –...