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 …
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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 …
Twin Peaks – His Dark Cosmology
I used to say: ‘watching David Lynch is like listening to jazz – it’s not meant to be a logically understood, it’s meant to be experienced.’ I was wrong.
Twin Peaks: the Return is as close a viewer will come …
The author’s lament: Why the fuck am I doing this?
It’s a question writers ask throughout their careers. While it is one, I suspect, most frequently posed (yelled, sighed) at the beginning, even the best have been known to lament. Richard Flanagan, for example, nearly quit writing to be a …
The Noir Standard – Baby Driver and The Heist Gone Wrong
A staple of noir cinema is the heist gone wrong. Perhaps the best known contemporary example is Reservoir Dogs (1992), in which Tarantino – steeped in and heavily influence by classic noir – depicts the aftermath of a diamond …
The Online Bubble (and how to escape)
The online bubble is making us dumber and meaner. It has become a sociopathic space curated by giant corporations, corruptive of clear thought and the capacity for human empathy.
I can’t quite remember when it happened. How we became so …
Writing Mid-Term Review 2017: Recognition and Rejection
Let’s start with the good news: an Aurealis Award and an ‘Best of the Year’ Anthology inclusion.
The Aurealis nomination for Best Horror short story was unexpected, because I’d never written horror before, and well, I’d never thought I’d …
Late Bloomer (the old fart as new writer)
I respond with a mixture of envy and fear every time a writer tells me they were born to write. Every time I read about this famous writer getting their first type-writer at 10, or that famous writer publishing their …