We talked, not so long ago, about poets who had also written novels. I was reminded of this today as…
SF Criticism Masterclass
It is worth pointing out this: Class Leaders: Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Roz Kaveney Justina Robson The Science Fiction Foundation (SFF) will…
Unearned
I have been coming to the conclusion lately that we learn more about how fiction does and doesn’t work from…
The Lost Booker
A short piece by Tobias Hill in the Guardian Review cleared up something I hadn’t quite realised about this curious…
Big as Life
Let’s start with an absence. Some years ago, we were in Berkeley, wandering from secondhand bookshop to secondhand bookshop. We…
A right tweet
The Guardian Review reports that Daisy Goodwin, the chair of the judges for this year’s Orange prize is writing about…
Trilogies
With science fiction increasingly dominated by multi-volume works I find myself more and more having to review volume X of…
Poetry is the Music of being human
No, I’m not sure what that means either. Carol Ann Duffy said it on the radio yesterday evening. Now, I…
Let’s Smile
Hmm, my first attempt at a post to Big Other, and my first use of WordPress. Me and technology: what…