… anyway … Hmm, Ok, so I wasn't unqualifiedly in love with the movie, but Bob "Movie Bob" Chipman, whose opinions I normally chime with, says here: "Nobody really seems to give a damn about Conan the Barbarian" which would be a terrible thing to be true. It would be the death of a lot of potential fantasy films in […]
In which I continue watching films as a pretext for making awful puns in the title. And yes, spoilers, spoilers, spoilers for the new Conan film. I have been heard to say that before Peter Jackson made Fellowship (1) there wasn't a fantasy film out there that you could cite as a good film without then going on to say […]
Yuk. Puns. Ah well. Anyway, cutting the day job down to four days a week has meant that this thing called the cinema (1) has re-entered my life. Experiment has taught that I can actually go into Leeds, get a big ol' slab of writing down in the coffee shop of my choice, and also take in a movie. As […]
I've been meaning to pen a thing about online RPGs, to go with my long-ago posts on paper and live ones. There's a ton of this sort of stuff about, of course — Elder Scrolls, Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate. However, first off: Eye of the Beholder Possibly nobody else even remembers this. It was a TSR Forgotten Realms thing […]
In which I am the victim of racist abuse. I over-dramatise, certainly. It wasn’t aimed at me specifically. The jackbooted ghost of Moseley didn’t kick in my door at midnight. However, hearing the phrase “They should all f*ck off where they came from” used to close some oratory on the scurrilous nature of those Eastern European […]
Time for another soundtrack, this time the musical stylings of Khanaphes. Track 1 — Overture (A Distant Sadness, from Battlestar Galactica Season 3 by Bear McCreary) Track 2 — Che Voyaging (The Bunker (Reprise), from Shadow of the Vampire by Daniel Jones) Track 3 — Che and Thalric (The Lonely Voyage, from Shadow of the […]
This is going to be the last short for a while, as I'm on the very cusp of starting on Book 9, which so far going under the working title of "I haven't the faintest idea what the title will be" or, given that my publishers have a fondness for punchy titles, "I haven't the faintest idea […]
Just a very brief note to say that, if you are replete with Kindle-owning (1) friends who haven't yet met the insect-kinden then Pyr/Prometheus have a limited time promotion on, with Empire going for just $1.99. Then they can buy the rest full price, damn them :). (1) Kindling? Can you gerund it?
Absolutely not. Just to clear up, there's been no movement on film rights etc. However, I do get asked (must do a FAQ some time) and I do think about what such a film would look like. Or better still, a GoT-style series. That would be very nice. I'm overjoyed that the Game of Thrones is doing so well, not only […]
In the Mythology panel I was on at Alt Fiction with KD Laity and Mark Chadbourn, the topic came up of writers who created their own enduring mythologies. Tolkien got an airing, of course, but also in the spotlight were writers like Tove Jansson (1) and, of course, HP Lovecraft. Mark pinned Lovecraft as almost in […]
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