I don't care about the flying car I was promised. You can stuff your hoverboard where the sun don't shine. This week I've been watching the future, the real future, and it's incredible ( Read more... )

The Miserly Patron
He pays no horses for verses
--he wouldn't know how.
The best that you'll get,
Is a cowI just love these little windows into the lives of the ancients! Bards, it seems, were a pampered lot with a sense of entitlement as large as the ocean ( Read more... )

I'll come right out and say it now: I would love to see an independent Scotland. In addition, I would love all of our neighboring island to stay with us in the European Union. But I won't try to persuade you to my point of view, however, because it's none of my business what the people of Scotland vote for. So, rest easy, this won't be a political ( Read more... )

I spent the weekend hunting megalithic tombs in Co. Sligo. Now, you know me. You know I won't get out of bed for anything younger than the pyramids, and these beauties have at least 500 years on their Egyptian cousins ( Read more... )

Some of you are rich -- don't bother trying to deny it, you know who you are. I want you to fund a new set of Science Fiction book awards, to be called "The Peadars". And wait! Wait right there! I don't want the usual "Best Book of the Year", or "Medal for Author with the Most Friends".

What I demand is:

Best World-Building in SF ( Read more... )

At the recent World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, I was lucky enough to chat to Joe Abercrombie for a few minutes about the YA Programme for next year's WorldCon.

You all know who I'm talking about, don't you? Yes, it's that Joe Abercrombie. AKA, Lord Grimdark, the Renoir of entrails; of hopeless, bloody, foul-mouthed, sexually explicit, ( Read more... )

I have just returned from holiday with conclusive proof that not only was Middle-Earth real, but that it existed in Northern Italy, rather than New Zealand as some of the more recent theories would have us believe. I, at least, can offer photographic proof. The image below was found on a door that's nearly 800 years old ( Read more... )

I've been reading a stunning first-hand account of WWI written by Ernst Jünger -- Storm of Steel nd I just wanted to say one thing ( Read more... )

You may or may not have noticed that  I haven't posted here for a while and that my comments on your own wonderful entries have been few and far between. What can it be? What's going on ( Read more... )

I may have missed some major life-changing events here on LJ over the past week, as I've been chasing the Nork around Switzerland and other places. But I'm back now. I'll have a few updates for tomorrow, I hope.


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