UPDATE: I’m asking a few good SF writers the following question (answer below, and please add your own!) – If you could teach a class of young people one idea from SF, what would it be? Science Fiction is almost an oxymoron. We live in a society where science and the humanities seem to beContinue reading “If you could teach a class of young people one idea from SF, what would it be?”
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Why Hollywood can’t get the hang of science fiction
If science fiction is a genre of ideas, is there any wonder Hollywood doesn’t get it? Look. There are are only two truly great science fiction movies. The first is Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, written in collaboration with Arthur C Clarke. The second is Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott and adapted from Philip K Dick’sContinue reading “Why Hollywood can’t get the hang of science fiction”
Damo’s NaNoWriMo Write-In
I’m doing NaNoWriMo this year. I have a Work In Progress and want the progress bit to happen faster. NaNo seems like a good focus for achieving that. My strategy this year is to throw myself body and soul in to the effort. To that end, I shall be at University of LeicesterContinue reading “Damo’s NaNoWriMo Write-In”
The value of reading, and the cost of ignorance
Yesterday I watched the great Bali Rai read a story aloud to twenty-thousand people at the Walker’s stadium at half-time of the Leice ster vs. Scunthorpe match. I’m not sure what the people of Scunthorpe made of it, but the football fans of Leicester loved it, and took away thousands of copies of the storyContinue reading “The value of reading, and the cost of ignorance”
Damien Walter 