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Author: PGR

  • 253 (Print Remix) by Geoff Ryman

    I’ve known of 253 (a.k.a. Tube Theatre) for quite some time, but I’ve only just read it, after stumbling across the (Philip K Dick Award-winning) “print remix“ in the dealer’s room at Eastercon. Its original incarnation was as a website – which still exists, seemingly untouched and untweaked since it was built in 1996. Wikipedia…

  • Descending Olympus

    So, that was Eastercon. My [stops to count old badges on lanyard] fifth, and my favourite so far. Well-organised, good fun; a great balance of the familiar and the new; old friends and fresh acquaintances… … and some dramatic props. [Thanks to Chad Dixon for the photo.] I often compare Eastercon to my experiences of…

  • Moveable feast

    So, Easter rolls around once more. In recent years, Easter has become the pivot point of my annual circuit around the sun; Eastercon has a little to do with that, as does the standard 12-month rented housing contract. It’s probably amplified by the fact that I don’t celebrate Xmas or my birthday, too. Which isn’t…

  • Nosferatu

    Yesterday afternoon, the ever-lovely @littlemoog dropped me a line to see if I fancied catching a screening of the classic silent movie Nosferatu at the Prince Charles Cinema, just off Leicester Square. We’d discovered the Charlie a few weeks back, thanks to Sophie Meyer – tutor of the just-about-finished Short Form module of my Masters…

  • Oscar Night

    Big fuck-off Hollywood / and the paradox of tolerance / the engineering of consent / an America for Americans / preserved in amber / like genes for dinosaurs / and dreams of the powerless. [Death to Hollywood… ] # There’s a big fuck-off Hollywood / in a church built by slaves / where all glitters…