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Nobody reads Friday night posts, y/y? Good. Look away now! No, rly. I hated these graphic novels. Don't say I didn't warn you. Last chance: instead of reading my post you could read this post on cracked that basically exposes dystopian post-apocalyptic fic as unrealistic libertarian propaganda (but does so with subtlety and humour ( Read more... )

I walked variations of "first left, second right" four times while I was in Llangollen.


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- Plas Newydd, Llangollen, Wales, and complex histories of colonialism. While I was in Llangollen I visited the estate of Plas Newydd, best known for the period when it was home to the posh Irish Ladies of Llangollen (of whom more another time) but the house today is unrecognisable from the property in which they resided because it was subsequently ( Read more... )

I have found the most WTF science fiction book cover of all time. A bold claim, I know, until you see the cover of the 1965 Italian translation of Fred and Geoffrey Hoyle's 1963 novel The Fifth Planet, which is a tragic omission from this cover galleryFred Hoyle is billed in Italian as: "one of the greatest scientists of our time". o_O ( Read more... )

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While I was in Totnes in Devon I managed to fit in a town trail walk at dusk (with apologies for the dodgy low-light caps) which was a circular walk linking three urban community gardens via a local water source known as the Leechwell ( Read more... )

Just posting this astonishing Frankenstein's carpet for your delectation. I can't decide whether to be disappointed or relieved that I didn't have a wider angle lens with me to capture this beast in all its glory.


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- Ghostbusters! Perfect. (5/5)

- Random manifestations of English gothicism sometimes cause my life to eerily resemble the settings of low-budget British science fiction from the 1970s.


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