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A Critical Mass to Escape Dystopia

Posted on May 20, 2017 by

Do you ever feel oppressed by the relentless coercion to spend ever more of your time online, staring at the screen, jumping through the hoops imposed by organisations of every kind? Do you detect the synergy between this and the … Continue reading →

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Archaeopteryx – by Lorna Smithers

Posted on May 17, 2017 by

Originally posted on Signposts in the Mist:
Archaeopteryx, I call to you kindly through layers of stone. Geological time is not the history of the victors. No! It does not lie or exploit. I pass through time as I pass…

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Forbidden Ecstasy

Posted on March 11, 2017 by

You know that feeling of discovering an author you’ve never read before who really hits your buttons, so you want to seek out everything they wrote? It doesn’t happen to me as much as it used to, my taste having … Continue reading →

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When Dinosaurs Ruled Again

Posted on January 12, 2017 by

Researching Deep Time was an excuse to rewatch the dinosaur films that had captivated me as boy. Through this painstaking scholarly process I discovered that in my memory two of these films had merged into one. That’s not entirely surprising … Continue reading →

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The Rogue One Terrorists

Posted on December 21, 2016 by

I used to think of Star Wars as a fairy tale in space. In filling a tempting gap in the storyline, Rogue One offers less in the way of mythological resonance and more of gritty realism. It’s telling that some key … Continue reading →

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Deep Sea Life

Posted on December 20, 2016 by

‘Hopeless is a strange, gothic island off the coast of Maine, cut off from the rest of reality for the greater part.’ So write Tom and Nimue Brown, the authors of Hopeless, Maine, a unique series of graphic novels. The … Continue reading →

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A very Druid apocalypse – by Nimue Brown

Posted on July 14, 2016 by

Originally posted on Druid Life:
One of the great things about being an author is the being able to kill people and never face any legal consequences. I expect I’m not the only person who looks around at the rest…

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