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  • Upside (the head, mostly)

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    On a day which can only be described as ‘on the cruddier side of cruddy’, I discovered that Dexter Season 4 is even darker than previous seasons. It unnerved me so much that at least one point I had to stop eating my dinner. … Hurrah! I also discovered, in the mail, my custom-made 2010…

  • Ansible makes me laugh

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    From the latest Ansible: Ursula K. Le Guin laments the passing of the squid: ‘[L]ast night on the Lehrer news hour Margaret Atwood did not say she did not write science fiction because she did not write about talking squids, but said that she did not write science fiction because she did not write about…

  • Confluxing

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    While I think of it, I’ll partly be at Conflux this weekend, but have only signed up for the Mass Book Signing so far (in case anyone wants A Book of Endings signed! I mean, remember: they’re easier to eBay without the signature, right?). Working part-time has limited my financial ability to partake of cons…

  • The Disappearance of Richard Ridyard

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    I’ve been checking back in with Angel Zapata’s blog for more news of our plagiarist friend, Richard Ridyard, & by now I’ve learned: * Richard Ridyard is the name of a deceased journalist, who — if he had any kind of professional integrity — must be rolling in his grave to see his reputation sullied…

  • I must be famous now

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    In today’s exciting news, apparently I’ve been plagiarised. A man called Angel has alerted me to the theft by a man called Ridyard who apparently is a co-founder of a business called Valentine Publications. Proving that reality can confer upon you the need to write sentences that are more bizarre than any fiction. Angel Zapata…

  • Boris, with dressing gown

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    In today’s delights, Boris Karloff in a dressing gown and Frankenstein make-up, between takes for a little movie called … Frankenstein. And in other news, join Angela Slatter, Kaaron Warren, Jason Fischer, Peter M. Ball & me (me? myself?) in a round-table called The Coming Dark next month at IRoSF; in which we discuss the…

  • Good character, bad character

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    The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible. — Mark Twain The trouble is, this is how I’m feeling about…

  • Spring in the step

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    Spring is a crazy time. Not just because of odd things like dust storms, but also because spring is when I want to do EVERYTHING at once. I want to write and read and paint and sing and watch great cinema and scour my brain of all the ideas it has spinning around inside. Today…

  • “It looks like Mars out there.”

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    Six o’clock in the morning, that’s what my roomie said. Didn’t understand what he meant. He was right.

  • Full armour and a hot fudge sundae

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    Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. — Kurt Vonnegut Oh, all right, I admit I’ve laughed along with the best of ’em at Dan Brown’s prose (the famous silhouette with…