For me, 2013 was the year we entered the future. As a child of the eighties, I remember reading the background to the Cyberpunk role-playing game. The game was set in the then-future 2013 world of cybernetic enhancements, sleek technology and flying cars. Whilst we may not have these cars, and limb-replacement technology is not…
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The past year, despite the apocalyptic prophecies, has overall been a positive one. The highlight of my year would have to be my comic-fantasy short-story The Sound of Latex being published in the Fox Spirit anthology “Tales of the Nun and Dragon”. My story has been well received, with reviewers asking for more tales of…
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Overall, 2011 has proved to be a positive year for me. My wife Caelia and I moved into our new home, which has a room set-aside for my study. Four months after we moved, our son Michael was born (yes, we did move in the midst of pregnancy). On a professional level, my writing has…
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Caelia and I watched Day 7, the most recent season, of 24, and I have to say that it is one of their best to date. After the terrible Day 6, this dramatic improvement in quality was needed in order to restore faith in both the series, and the format. Replacing the incrementally epic adventures…
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As many of you may know by now, science-fiction strongly appeals to me, and thus the SciFi Weekend (later renamed Movie-Mania) at the Leicester Space Centre was one I had looked forward to for sometime. Ever since I blackmailed Caelia into going, after a week night once spent scouring the local 24 hour supermarkets (only…
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Saturday night witnessed a rare lunar phenomenon, namely a total eclipse of the moon by the earth’s shadow. Having been fortunate enough to witness the previous lunar eclipse in 1998, and being forewarned by Caelia, we walked through Straith Woods to enjoy one of natures own light shows.
