Monthly Archives: February 2007

The Steep Approach to Literary Acceptance

A couple of articles (Times, Indy) on Banksie’s new novel refer to it being five years since his last one. Err, no: The Algebraist came out in 2004 (which is longer ago than I thought, but still less than three years).
Oh, wait, no, of course: that wasn’t a novel; that was just sci-fi.
Bah!
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Not Before Time to the nth power

Just heard on the radio that Wimbledon is going to pay women the same as men, at last. Though I see that some neanderthal called Tommy Haas is complaining about it. Welcome to the twenty-first century, mate.
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Book Notes 24: Variable Star, by Robert A Heinlein and Spider Robinson

These are still the 2006 Book Notes. I’ll finish them soon, honest.
Heinlein used to be my absolute favourite author. Indeed, he is in large part responsible for me developing a lifelong love of science fiction. And I’m also very fond of Spider Robinson. So when I found out that this existed, [...]

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A Deadline Crash, and a Reading

Over the last few weeks I’ve been trying to write a Doctor Who short story. It was for a competition that Big Finish, publisher of DW books and CDs, were running. Alas, the closing date was the 31st of January, which is now past, and I didn’t finish it (does that make it [...]

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