As a writer you are free. You are the freest person there ever was. Your freedom is what you buy with your solitude. Ursula K Le Guin I write as many evenings a week as I can at a nearby library. It belongs to the city university, but I have taken it over piece byContinue reading “As a writer you are free”
Author Archives: Damien Walter
Shame on us all
I very rarely comment on politics. I am by nature a non-political person. I tend to see both sides of most arguments, and there are merits and faults with any position in any political debate. Extremism is always wrong. Beyond that, who is right is mostly a matter of your tribal, partisan allegiances. There isContinue reading “Shame on us all”
Damo’s SF prophecies for 2011
It’s a snowin’ in the British Isles, and it’s put me in mind of the coming end of year. So. I have decided to start a new tradition around these parts, and make my predictions for the key trends in SF in the year to come! And now with no further ado we present… Damo’sContinue reading “Damo’s SF prophecies for 2011”
Steampunk Reloaded reviewed by Lauren Westwood
Lauren Westwood is graduate of Loughborough University’s MA in Creative Writing and was a project intern for the Writing Industries Conference. She is a young writer with a passion for SF and Fantasy, but had never heard of steampunk until accepting my challenge to review the Steampunk Reloaded anthology. Here she gives a fascinating insightContinue reading “Steampunk Reloaded reviewed by Lauren Westwood”
Reality is for people who can’t handle Science Fiction
It’s all too easy to dismiss science fiction and fantasy stories as escapist nonsense. But there’s ultimately something despairing about the charge of running away most readers of these genres encounter at some point. It tends to come from an authority figure of some kind – a teacher, a boss, a parent. It is oftenContinue reading “Reality is for people who can’t handle Science Fiction”
Places I Will Be
All quiet on the blog front. I have been writing. But I have to venture out in to the public eye in the near future, starting with: Novacon – I will be at Novacon in Nottingham tomorrow, for at least the afternoon. I’ve never attended the convention before, so excited to see what kind ofContinue reading “Places I Will Be”
Word War Weird
In a moment of idle bravado, I agreed to a smack-down NaNoWriMo word war with fellow authors of weird fiction Gra Linnaea, Paul Jessup and John Klima. So far the score is… …and as you can see I am losing. (At the time of writing.) So cheer for me or something.
If you could teach a class of young people one idea from SF, what would it be?
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?”
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”
My Love Sick Zombie Boy Band in Electric Velocipede Double Issue
Electric Velocipede have announced that issues 21 and 22 will be published together as a bumper double issue to be published in November. The TOC is below, and just happens to include My Love Sick Zombie Boy Band by (ahem) Damien G. Walter! MLSZBB was one of my Clarion submission stories, and benefited from detailedContinue reading “My Love Sick Zombie Boy Band in Electric Velocipede Double Issue”
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