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Archive for March, 2010
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This Week on Debatable Spaces
Posted on March 31, 2010 | No CommentsWho’d Want to be More than Human? SFF Song of the Week: Blogjay: Adrian Reynolds Song: Sonic Attack by Hawkwind Also this week: ANIME HEROES : Part 1 Guest... -
SFF Song of the Week: Adrian Reynolds
Posted on March 31, 2010 | No CommentsScreenwriter and blogger Adrian Reynolds has been a regular visitor to this site, and contributed a fabulous guest blog about Spider-Man not so long back. I asked Adrian to come... -
Who’d Want to be More than Human?
Posted on March 29, 2010 | 9 CommentsIf you could have a superpower, which superpower would it be? Oh please! Don’t pretend you’ve never thought about this. It’s the first daydream of every card-carrying SFF fan. The... -
Anime Heroes
Posted on March 25, 2010 | 1 CommentInspired by Archie Tait’s sublime choice of SFF Song of the Week – with its anime theme – I’ve decided to make it Anime Week on Debatable Spaces. Yes, I’m... -
SFF Song of the Week: Archie Tait
Posted on March 24, 2010 | 1 CommentHere’s a choice from Archie Tait, TV and film producer, film distributor, cineaste, and general good guy. Archie wrote an amazing guest blog about SF movies on this site a... -
How to Write Action SF
Posted on March 22, 2010 | 6 CommentsWhat’s the best way to kill an alien? Do you zap it with energy beams, blast it with bullets, burn it with a flame-thrower, drop an anti-matter bomb on it,... -
The Naked and the Nude and the SEXY
Posted on March 21, 2010 | 2 CommentsArt historians like to make a distinction between the ‘naked’ and the ‘nude’. The naked is embarrassing and socially taboo; whereas the nude is beautiful, artistic, and morally acceptable. Kenneth Clark... -
More About Sex
Posted on March 20, 2010 | No CommentsI ruffled a few feathers and provoked a few thoughts with my recent blog Is Urban Fantasy Really ALL About Sex? I also learned a few things about myself and... -
On Being a Film Producer
Posted on March 19, 2010 | No CommentsMost writers live very boring lives. *sighs jealously* In my very first posting on this site, I claimed to have had a colourful life as a spy, explorer, murderer, and... -
Red Claw Stuff
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No CommentsI’ve just been told of an exciting book tournament being held by BSCreview…It’s a knockout competition between rival books and the last book standing will, presumably, win fair maiden. Hey... -
SFF Song of the Week: Robert Grant
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No CommentsI recently had an email reminding me that the splendid Sci-Fi London Festival is coming up soon (end of April, beginning of May), organised by Louis Savy and Robert Grant.... -
Is Urban Fantasy Really ALL About Sex?
Posted on March 15, 2010 | 23 CommentsI remember the moment when the truth dawned on me…I was just a nipper and I was watching a Hammer House of Horror movie featuring Christopher Lee as Dracula –... -
Paintings of the Week: Self Portraits
Posted on March 14, 2010 | No CommentsI never recognise myself in photographs; the tall, muscular, heroic man that I know myself to be always get strangely reduced into being a short tubby Welsh bloke. This just... -
The Battle Between Good and Evil
Posted on March 12, 2010 | No CommentsEagle-eyed Adrian Reynolds has alerted me to this rare piece of good news in the Battle Between Good and Evil… In a nutshell, a bankruptcy examiner has concluded that Lehman Brothers... -
The Week Reviewed
Posted on March 12, 2010 | No CommentsThis week I was invited – thanks to those nice people at Working Title Films – to a cast and crew (plus invited guests) screening of Paul Greengrass’s new film... -
SFF Heroes: Neo
Posted on March 11, 2010 | No CommentsActually I prefer Trinity…brrr! But let’s not go there. Neo is the coolest of the cool. He is Christ (aka the One), he is kick-ass, he wears shades, he has... -
Inglourious Paintings
Posted on March 10, 2010 | No CommentsStuart McGregor kindly sent me the link for these wonderful images - artworks inspired by Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. -
SFF Song of the Week: Mike Carey
Posted on March 10, 2010 | No CommentsMike Carey is an inspiration to all lovers of comic books and fantasy. His credits range from X-Men comics to Constantine epics, to magnificent original graphic novels like God Save... -
Are Shit Reviews Good for a Writer’s Soul?
Posted on March 8, 2010 | 7 CommentsIn the last few weeks I’ve been dabbling in controversial topics on this blogsite. First I DARED TO DEFY the great John Scalzi by pointing out that he’s totally (utterly!... -
Paintings of the Week: the Thames
Posted on March 7, 2010 | No CommentsThis week all the paintings I feature, by various artists, are of the River Thames. I remember when I first came to London from University, and a gang of us...