Ten Novels That Blew My Mind
There’ve been way more than ten, of course. But these things are always hard to figure. When you’re young it is too easy to be blown away. One lacks all those bitter years, the accretion of protective layers – the …
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How To Win Money on the Oscars (without watching anything)
I’ve won money on the Oscars for four years straight. Let me tell you how it’s done.
Cynically. That’s the first and most important element. Stop reading now if you’re looking for insights into film-making, or acting, or virtuosity on …
A Great Silence: Defining Australian Noir
Introduction
Sunshine Noir delivers social realism rather than the stylized realism of US noir. Grit is embedded under the fingernails, not merely sprinkled around the scene as an aesthetic choice. Sunshine Noir takes place in the outback under an unblinking …
How to Write a Novel (redux)
I wrote an article on this four years ago, barely a year into writing, just after I’d finished the draft of my first novel. In my unrestrained neophyte enthusiasm, I offered fourteen suggestions, which I will reassess shortly.
But …
Hong Kong: The Long Goodbye
“With Britain’s mouth watering over Beijing’s investment cheques and the rest of the West dizzy from its own civil wars among political correctness, Muslims and Donald Trump, Western governments, media and liberals see the world with blurred vision. ‘Turning and …
Donald Trump cost me a book deal
Then there was the time Donald Trump cost me a book deal.
The feedback from one of the major publishers came in via my agent. The editor praised the high quality of the prose, the East Asian noir setting, and …
200 submissions
200 shots fired in my ongoing campaign to have you motherfuckers read one of my stories. Not many have hit: 14, to be precise, new sales*.
Good sales, most of them, to be sure – many professional, six to the …
The Philosophy of Blade Runner 2049: Ms Joi’s Feeling for Snow
The varied and rich philosophical strands of Blade Runner 2049 will be analysed and debated for years to come. Already in the world are some top-shelf articles on the use of light in blade runner, the neglect of children…
Blade Runner 2049: Conspiracy theories and the Nexus 7
Part 2 is dedicated to my theories. Part one was a review of the film, part three discusses philosophical themes. Spoilers below, obviously.
Without further ado:
Theory 1: the Nexus 7
Roy Batty is a Nexus 6. Inception …
Blade Runner 2049 (review): Do Androids Dream of Breathtaking Sequels?
Blade Runner should never have had a sequel. It was and is a work of art, self-contained. It bears watching and re-watching. Today, thirty-five years after it was first released, it still feels contemporary, is unarguably prescient. Blade Runner imagined …