Under the label ‘Things I wish I’d written’, because they express a point I’ve been wanting make for ages, is this post from The F-Word blog on that hateful phrase ‘can’t you…
I was looking forward to reading Edge by Thomas Blackthorne. I liked the blurb (which you can see in the picture). It sounded like it was going to be an…
Book number 1 in the 100 books in 2011 challenge is Grass by Sherri Tepper. It’s number 48 on the SF Masterworks list. The blurb says: Generations ago, humans fled to…
I discovered I could edit on the train so I wasn’t reading for a while. I’ve got as far as I can with editing the current work-in-progress; it now needs…
Plot. I have issues with plot. I have a mental block when it comes to getting my characters from one big event to another via smaller events. Perhaps it’s just…
The Book People come to where I work and sometimes you can gets lots of books for little money. The last time they had eight Sookie Stackhouse novels for a…
Issue 5 of Crossed Genres is sci-fi/fantasy crossed with humour. There are five stories. The first is Archimedes Nesselrode by Justine Graykin. The start of this put me off. I…
I’ve been pondering this one for a while. A few weeks ago I stumbled across a radical feminist critique of one of my favourite shows, Firefly. My first reaction was…
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