Category Archives: Writing & Publishing

I was really hoping the D&D movie would be good. There’s been a of disappointing capital F for Fantasy storytelling recently. Fake Tolkien. Wheel of Tedium. Willow…best ignored. So I was prepared for the worst. What I got is one of the best heroic fantasy movies for a very long time. And maybe more importantly…aContinue reading “Last hope for heroic fantasy”

Girls??! Fighting in the grimdark future of Warhammer 40k?! I made this thumbnail as a parody of anti-Woke youtube and then discovered there is an entire subculture of dudes who are perpetually enraged about Woke Warhammer. Oh well, I guess people will figure it out. I’m making these unedited vids at the moment because I’mContinue reading “Warhammer 40k BARBIE”

I like Rogue One But it was Disney’s biggest mistake WATCH HERE

The best thing about Rollerball? No CGI They took a bunch of stunt guys, strapped them into roller skates, tossed in some dirt bikes then actually played Rollerball to figure out how it would work in real life. No fatalities but a couple of serious injuries. I’m sure everyone had a blast. There are twoContinue reading “Rollerball is one hell of a movie”

Blimey. There’s a thread on the movie Ad Astra burning in the Science Fiction group. And I need to find the gif of Mal Reynolds to express my feelings on it. I’ll make it the first comment. Look. Folks. Do people generally understand that Ad Astra is an allegory? It’s been the fashion for scifiContinue reading “All the scifi movies you love are allegory”

So. The major reason that the “Deckard is a Replicant” matter confuses many fans of the movie is that much of Blade Runner is told by implication. Firstly, Nexus replicants are identical to humans in every regard, including genetics. That’s why the empathy test is required. Secondly, if replicants live long enough they also developContinue reading “Yes, Deckard is a Replicant”

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz was a German mathematician, scientist, philosopher, diplomat and theologian (which will become important to the story) and owner of many fabulous wigs. Or what we would today call a polymath. Leibnitz became curious about numbers. If there were 10 base numbers because humans have ten fingers, what would have happened if weContinue reading “The ancient book of wisdom at the heart of every computer”

Writing for The Guardian about science fiction was a mixed blessing. One of my small number of “haters” likes to claim I must have had “connections”. The truth is I argued my way into The Guardian, starting from the comment section, until the editors invited me to contribute “above the line”, all driven by myContinue reading “The ancient book of wisdom at the heart of every computer MEMBER PREVIEW”

Among the things I’ve done to pass 45 years on planet Earth is spend 10 of those years reasearching…story. One outcome of that research was my course The Rhetoric of Story, which now has over 50k students worldwide. Another outcome is my small consultancy working with a select set of businesses on brand storytelling. It’sContinue reading “Brand = Product + ?”

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