I have been known to overthink, however I wonder if Alastair Reynolds has presented us with some Philip K Dick easter eggs in his fun-filled Halcyon Years. I am not spoiling anything that the blurb does not give away in saying we start with a well-worn SF trope of a generation ship travelling between the […]
FLAG DAY It was Flag Day so we wrapped ourselves in our flags and went to the pub. What a jape! What a crack-up! We were hilarious! Everybody else had the same idea, but. Those bastards. All the flags were the same because we are all Flaglanders. It would have been nice to wrap myself in […]
Edgar Allan, the bleakest of the Teletubbies, turns 217 today. (someone else made this art, it was not me) Dark Universal and Justice League Dark ain’t got anything on some of the scary Teletubbie art (I’ll let you google it yourself). Remember, each of them is over 6 foot tall, they live in a very […]
TIL that Andromeda Spaceways magazine, formerly known as Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, is no more. After 25 years, Andromeda Spaceways magazine will be grounding our fleet with issue 100, due December 2025. We want to thank all our passengers over the years (and really, what is time when you’ve passed through as many black holes […]
A little late, but they are choices from the list I publish at this time most years, so who cares. Happy new year. Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial arts […]
Philip K Dick is dead, alas, so it is possible that the world we live in is not his dream. Then again I have read Ubik. And also, it would be impolite to cast PKD as the Demiurge. The again, Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn, but I have never associated PKD with HPL, so […]
Dear Reader, It has been a while between posts, and this is delayed news, but I have been busy moving house – you may have noticed the world had stopped, this was the reason. On the story front, and what other front is there here, my “The golden age of science fiction” has recently been […]
qntm is seriously good. I had There Is No Antimemetics Division on my Kindle for ages, I can’t remember now where I found the recommendation, but I had some notion in my head that it was this thing, so I did not read it, and then I did and it turned out to be this […]
Uncle Heshie said his inventions came from seeing something in his mind’s eye and then delivering it to the world. That was art – manifesting your idea in the world, If it were enough to have the idea, all those white boys Zippo went to art school with – who talked and talked but never […]
FLAG DAY It was Flag Day so we wrapped ourselves in our flags and went to the pub. What a jape! What a crack-up! We were hilarious! Everybody else had the same idea, but. Those bastards. All the flags were the same because we are all Flaglanders. It would have been nice to wrap myself in […]
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