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By ferdinandpage Posted on April 10, 2018June 27, 2019

Jeff Noon and the really weird

Jeff Noon, British cult novelist, playwright and one of a small but very recognisable group of contemporary writers of weird, or new weird fiction, was in the Forbidden Planet London … Continue reading Jeff Noon and the really weird

Categories: Jeff Noon, Weird fiction
By ferdinandpage Posted on April 4, 2016April 6, 2016

The Naked Author 1: This Census Taker

Francis Spufford’s review of This Census Taker in The Guardian, heads the “stoic bleakness” in the novel with a choice of author photograph designed to bring out the same qualities. The familiar image … Continue reading The Naked Author 1: This Census Taker

Categories: Author photo, China Miéville, naked author, speculative fiction, writing
By ferdinandpage Posted on February 13, 2016April 21, 2016

Urban Fantasy is dead – What?

  I feel an attack of slottishness coming on. Slottishness is when the book you’re submitting is the wrong genre for the current climate. You’ve learned, painfully resuscitating the trampled … Continue reading Urban Fantasy is dead – What?

Categories: contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, writing, YATags: urban fantasy, writing
By ferdinandpage Posted on July 27, 2015

Fanfic is Real, OK?

‘ Well, maybe not “real” in the usual sense. Re-reading one of my fanfics it is a heady brew of reverent but extreme use of Joss Whedon’s wall-to-wall fan catnip, Buffy … Continue reading Fanfic is Real, OK?

Categories: fanfic, writing
By ferdinandpage Posted on June 10, 2015August 1, 2017

Are writers the worst liars?

Writers are well known for making things up. Neil Gaiman is known to over two million Twitter followers as someone who will eventually grow up and get a real job. … Continue reading Are writers the worst liars?

Categories: gaming, lying, making things up, neil gaiman tattoo, writingTags: gaming, lying, making things up, Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman tattoo
By ferdinandpage Posted on August 12, 2014

Living in Nine Worlds

                The unstoppable force in agenting known as Juliet Mushens tweeted on the last day of Nine Worlds Geekfest 2014 Please can I live here. … Continue reading Living in Nine Worlds

Categories: conventions, geekhood
By ferdinandpage Posted on June 1, 2014April 5, 2016

UF or Hokusai’s Manga

http://uploads4.wikiart.org/images/katsushika-hokusai/ningyo.jpg The sun’s come out and you may have something better to do than burble around with me on this one. It was a very interesting Twitter with Amy Boggs … Continue reading UF or Hokusai’s Manga

Categories: contemporary fantasy, manga, metaphorlogical, urban fantasy, writingTags: Hokusai's Manga, UF gender bias, urban fantasy
By ferdinandpage Posted on May 24, 2014April 5, 2016

No More Puppies in Who

Credit: BBC/Steve Brown In Handing Over the Sonic Screwdriver I wrote: Nine-hundred odd years of knocking around the universe, you’ve got to see in the Doctor’s eyes when it’s just … Continue reading No More Puppies in Who

Categories: Doctor Who
By ferdinandpage Posted on April 27, 2014August 1, 2017

Otaku tattoo yo

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/12/09/lifestyle/otaku-culture-gets-under-the-skin/#.U11GQCgnwVR The last time I spoke to a Japanese tattooist working outside Tokyo he said inking was still connected – not for the customers but for some of the neighbouring shops … Continue reading Otaku tattoo yo

Categories: geekhood, otaku tattoo, tattooing, writing
By ferdinandpage Posted on April 17, 2014April 26, 2014

So, my hairdresser said …

Where do you get your ideas? And I was embarrassed, because I didn’t want to say they just turn up when I start writing, to someone who has spent years … Continue reading So, my hairdresser said …

Categories: 5th stomach, writing
By ferdinandpage Posted on August 27, 2013August 27, 2013

Not true dat?

Still putting my writing through trueness to SFF. Memo to self, of all fake genres, using bits of SFF to sex up a straight-down-the-genre-line romance, crime thriller, action, etc is … Continue reading Not true dat?

Categories: fake geek chick, fake tattoo, Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood, tattooing
By ferdinandpage Posted on August 5, 2013August 6, 2013

Handing over the sonic screwdriver

This has nothing to do with the place of sci-fi on the “small” screen (have you noticed they qualify as an entire wall now?) shifts in storyline in the Doctor … Continue reading Handing over the sonic screwdriver

Categories: Doctor Who, speculative fiction

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