Loom

Warren Ellis asks questions a lot — he wonders what shape the future might take sometimes: the future of science fiction; the future of the internet and its content. In answer to a piece called The Patchwork Years, which looked at the shift from curation sites to sites which produce original content, five of us [...]

turn the page: saul bellow

The Dangling Man is the first Saul Bellow novel that I read and it remains my favourite, closely followed by Seize The Day and The Dean’s December. As well as being great reads that firmly embed you, the reader, within the psychology of the central characters and their neuroses, because all of them have neuroses, [...]

Sudoku Grid

A new character driven story tacked to a semi-high-concept idea I had whilst pumped on caffeine and gum — blame Folgers for this bullshit. Click the above link to indulge.

Turn The Page: Proximity Alert by Paul Grimsley

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A collection of stories that takes you closer to some people than you would ever normally want to go.
Staked out in the territory of a blooming bruise, ‘proximity alert’ takes you to childhood haunts, through the corridors of death, obsessive love, and the fecund minds of those whose [...]

Turn The Page: Manifesto Of A Menopausal Woman by Mona Lisa

I was witness to the genesis of this book, and though the book says the seed of an idea was planted in Missouri, I think something had already clicked into place in Chicago. We were both there to record some spoken word and Mona had been looking out of a window at the scene before [...]

16 Flaws Launched

So, the first two parts of this massive project I am undertaking is up for your enjoyment — I hope you’ll all support me and leave me loads of comments to let me know what you think. I have something like a hundred and sixty characters to introduce you to and each story will be [...]

Turn The Page: A Canticle For Leibowitz Walter M Miller Jr.

I seem to remember this being recommended to me with a line like ‘If you say you like Science Fiction then you need to read this.’ It is different — it has a very different flavour to a lot of the science fiction that I had read up to that point except for maybe The [...]

Turn The Page: New Chuck Palahniuk Novel Pygmy Announced

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Posted March 20th, 2008 by Dennis
In emailing back and forth with Chuck earlier this week, I asked him what he’s been up to.  I might have been feeling him out for what he’s been working on a little.  But it wasn’t my primary intention.  [...]

Turn The Page: Notes From The Underground by Dostoevsky

I have been meaning for an age to read Dostoevsky and, having a literature degree, am slightly ashamed of myself that it has taken until now. I am of course reading a translation but I have to trust that it is a faithful rendition of the original Russian, just as I have trusted the work [...]

Turn The Page: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

I am so glad that I read this book before I watched the film because if not I wouldn’t have bothered and I would have denied myself an entrance into the work of a wonderful writer.
The film stripped away so many things from the book, and I know how they say that you shouldn’t compare [...]