Monthly Archives: December 2009

He Knows If You’ve Been Bad Or Good

Posted on December 29, 2009 by

Christmas is not Christmas to me unless the first song played is the Bruce Springsteen version of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. This has been going on certainly since the mid-eighties, where it was used as reveille, a blast … Continue reading →

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Buying In The Name Of

Posted on December 21, 2009 by

Rage Against The Machine is the UK’s Christmas No. 1. That still feels like such a strange phrase to write. It outsold the record that most industry voices had assumed would be a shoo-in, Joe McElderry’s “The Climb”, by a … Continue reading →

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So Long, Dan O’Bannon

Posted on December 20, 2009 by

I was very sad to hear of the death last week of Dan O’Bannon, one of the greats of SF and horror cinema. As the co-writer of Alien, he gave us Ellen Ripley. With Total Recall, he wrote one of … Continue reading →

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Some More Thoughts On Genre

Posted on December 11, 2009 by

This post will be a bit random, I’m afraid, but I can’t really find a way to make anything coherent out of them, so feel free to view it as a bit of a braindump. 1. I like cross-genre stuff … Continue reading →

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When is SF not SF?

Posted on December 9, 2009 by

I could, I suppose, pretend that the labours of the last month have been a hard slog, or that getting a 65,000 word novel out has been difficult. I could, but I won’t. PIRATES OF THE MOON has flooded out … Continue reading →

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The Results Are In…

Posted on December 8, 2009 by

…and it looks like my hopes for continuing the story of the Armstrongs on the Moon will have to wait. At least for a while. I have a day or so left to go on the first draft of PIRATES … Continue reading →

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The End Of The Beginning

Posted on December 1, 2009 by

It’s December, for those of you who might not have noticed. The start of the Christmas month. Time to open the first door on the advent calendar. If you’re anything like my nephew Conor, it’s also time to open the … Continue reading →

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