Best SF Directors of all Time (Part 2)
Numbers fourteen down to seven on the list are here, if you missed it. If not, may I present the final countdown:
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An Aurealis Nomination (plus recommendations for the Ditmars)
I was fucking chuffed to have received my first (and shit, maybe last) Aurealis Award nomination a few days ago. For the uninitiated, the Aurealis Awards are the juried prize for best genre fiction in Australia. 
The short story – …
Best SF Directors of all Time (part 1)
Let me pose this scenario: you’re a geek (shut up, you are). You’re marooned on Mars (shut up, just go with this). You’ve got enough food and water to last until the resupply mission arrives in eighteen months. You may …
I’m in Clarke’s ‘best science fiction of the year’ (fuck yeah)
Neil Clarke recently announced the table of contents for his ‘Best Science Fiction of the Year’. It’s an impressive line up. What the fuck I’m doing in it, I’m not sure, but hey, I’ll take it. Short fiction-wise this is …
Rogue One – the Scarif Problem
This isn’t a review of the entire film. There are plenty of those around, written by better critics than I. All I’ll say is this: I enjoyed Rogue One. It was a flawed, but welcome addition to the franchise. …
Five Favourite Books of 2016
Read about 45 this year, plus shitloads of academic articles, and watched an abundance of film and television. I’ll stick to books here, other than to say that, for mine, The Expanse was the best TV of 2016.
In no …
Best. Music Video. Ever.
I cannot stop watching this. I just can’t stop.
And the 80s, apparently, was the primo decade for movies. In twelve moves you can go from Empire Strikes Back, to Aliens, to Predator, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Mad Max 2, …
Quick Reviews: Daredevil, Seasons 1 – 2; Vikings, Seasons 1 – 2; Person of Interest, All Seasons; Troll Hunter; Broadchurch, Season 1; Peaky Blinders, Seasons 1 – 2; BoJack Horseman, Seasons 1 – 3; Better Call Saul, Seasons 1 – 2
Vikings Season 1 – 2 (Canadian – Irish production)
Vikings is a bloody, meat-tearing, bare-arsed and tits-bared trek through Viking culture, mythology, and 
history. Ragnar Lothbrok’s (Australian Travis Fimmel) stare is enough to make shield maidens swoon and Saxons …
Good Intentions Are Not Enough
Writing about other cultures is bloody difficult. It’s also important, and speculative fiction writers in particular should always be thinking about different realities. But it is not something to be taken lightly.
I don’t want to talk about Lionel Shriver. …
Three Years a Writer
Facebook told me the other day that It’d been three years since I’d sold my first short story. So, aside from the general unease that comes from knowing how much personal information I’ve willingly – and unwillingly – given to …