I believe I have frothed here before on the all-round grooviness of Bioware's SF role play game 'Mass Effect'. For me it remains the acme of storytelling in console games with its solid world-building, moral ambiguity, sharp writing and excellent voice acting ( Read more... )

Hat tip to Chiller for this joyful piece from Peter Serafinowicz.

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Talking of which, what a lovely Buzzcocks episode this week. Alex James was very charming and it was wonderful to see Noel Fielding and Peter Serafinowicz try to outweird each other. (Fielding won, effortlessly.) What an improvement on the usual theatre of cruelty that is Never ( Read more... )

Kung Fu Monkey, bless him, links to the Strange Horizons lists of SF and horror stories they'd rather not see submitted again.

Follow the links for the full lists, but as a taster:
Someone calls technical support; wacky hijinx ensue ( Read more... )

A tip of the hat to the old man, who has been whisked from us into a chronosynclasticinfundibulum.

Rosewater was on the next bed, reading, and Billy drew him into the conversation, asked him what he was reading this time ( Read more... )

Oh bugger. I missed Brian Aldiss on Desert Island Discs.