Graham Storrs

I hope my favourite sci-fi newsletter, Ansible, won’t mind if I reproduce the following paragraph verbatim. Not only is this matter one that outrages me, but Ansible’s treatment of it is just brilliant. Anyway, enjoy: Peter Watts, Canadian sf author beaten up and pepper-sprayed by a US border guard in December (see A270), was convicted [...]

When Jeremy C Shipp asked for people willing to read the ARC of his forthcoming novel, Cursed, I was keen but nervous. I’ve been following Shipp on Twitter and enjoying his quirky humour. I’d noticed that Jeff Vandermeer – whom I greatly admire – thinks highly of him. And I’d read an interview Shipp gave [...]

Let me come clean. Luke Keioskie is a friend, so I’m bound to be a bit biased about his work. On the other hand, he’s a friend I admire and respect for his work, so the fact that I like what he writes isn’t that big a surprise. I first came across Dead America eighteen [...]

I suppose I was as shocked as anyone to hear that Quartet Press has closed down even before it was launched. (Publishers Weekly has the full story.) It’s sad for Don Linn, Kat Meyer and the others who set up the venture that they couldn’t see a way to make it work. What I found [...]

I watched ‘I Am Legend‘ yesterday evening. I admit it, I have a soft spot for Will Smith. There’s hardly a film he has made that I haven’t enjoyed – even ‘Hitch‘ was OK – and some I know I will watch again (including ‘Independence Day‘ and ‘Enemy of the State‘.) So I was willing [...]

I found this fun little widget whilst browsing Technorati. (Yes, I’m a geek.) And I configured it to be interesting. It compares the rate of use of the terms ‘sci-fi’, ‘science fiction’, ‘fantasy’ and ‘horror’ in blogs on the Web over the past 90 days. Keyword popularity across the Blogosphere This chart illustrates how many [...]