February 8, 2010 | Posted by Mark
Some work seems to have been done on the previously threadbare website for Season of the Witch! Unfortunately the site still uses annoying flash players to slow down loading of content, but now there is more than just a brief synopsis and trailer video.
You also get sections on:
Story – the synopsis again with some weird [...]
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February 5, 2010 | Posted by Mark
A new novel by dark fantasy, new weird writer China Mieville is due out in May of this year. Called Kraken the book has something to do with squid worshippers and the Natural History Museum!
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February 5, 2010 | Posted by Mark
I hadn’t heard about this before, but there is to be a new book in the Gormenghast series published in 2011. The book was written by Mervyn’s widow Maeve Gilmore and is based on his notes. According to the Bookseller the manuscript was recently unearthed from a box in the attic of Peake’s granddaughter’s home.
Almost [...]
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February 4, 2010 | Posted by Mark
Issue 32 of Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction is now available!
Here is the issue’s table of contents:
Editorial
New Friends and Old! Stephen Theaker
Newton Braddell and His Inconclusive Researches into the Unknown: the Conclusion!
John Greenwood
Miss Lavender Goes It Alone
A Diabolical Persistence in Error
A Hard Bargain
Sembawang
The Quarterly Review
Audio
Doctor Who 124: Patient Zero 31
Doctor Who 125: Paper Cuts
This issue also features [...]
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January 31, 2010 | Posted by Mark
I have been working through some ideas of how to portray hell in my novel Hell has its Demons. If you read the synopsis of the story you’ll have noticed that it ends with a journey by some of the main characters into hell itself. As the story is set in the middle ages there is [...]
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January 22, 2010 | Posted by Mark
Great post this from Charles Stross that sums up a lot of my own badly expressed thoughts about the perils of free/open access content.
At the end of the day if no-one pays for content, then why is it going to be produced. Also similar theme alluded to in Peter F. Hamilton’s Misspent Youth where any [...]
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January 7, 2010 | Posted by Mark
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8441813.stm
Witchcraft is still alive and well and causing massive suffering in some African countries.
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January 5, 2010 | Posted by Mark
Here’s a bit more information about Season of the Witch, although there’s not much available apart from the synopsis and cast list at the moment. Apparently some screenings happened in December 2009, but no reviews yet. The film is due out in March 2010.
Synopsis:
Nicolas Cage stars as a 14th century Crusader who returns with his [...]
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January 4, 2010 | Posted by Mark
With reference to my last post about Devices and Desires, the characters have become a lot clearer and different for me now – the realisation for me happened after about 300 pages. I won’t say how exactly but the main characters slowly seem to accrue more differentiation in their manner, style and motivation.
Perhaps the difference [...]
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December 24, 2009 | Posted by Mark
This looks quite interesting, and the plot is definitely up my street:
“14th century crusaders take a woman accused of witchcraft to an abbey where the monks will examine her and determine if her sorcery is the cause of the Black Plague which has decimated Europe.”
Video Trailer for Season of the Witch
And here:
But difficult to tell [...]
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