A little over a year ago, Claire McKenna, best known as a prolific short story writer, suddenly switched focus and started working on a low-low budget Sci Fi movie based on one of her own short stories, ‘The Liminal’. I’d been getting excited emails from her occasionally with shooting photos attached. A couple of rubber [...]

I have this theory that some objects cause effects in culture similar to the gravitational effect a body such as a planet or comet causes in space-time. You know that demonstration: space as a flat sheet of rubber pulled taut. Billiard balls sit upon it, the indentations they make representing the effect of gravity. [...]

Deconstructing the alien: Blindsight by Peter Watts
In 1999 Canadian author Peter Watts made a big splash with Starfish, his ‘New York Times Notable Book of the Year-listed’ debut thriller about a group of misfit bio-engineered humans sent deep underwater by a multinational corporation to harness the geothermal energy of Channer vent on the Juan de [...]

Whether we like the idea or not, young people in western culture get most of their cues and their role models for life from television. TV tells them what to look like, what to expect from the world and how to behave. TV tells them what to eat, what to buy and what to wear.

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The launch of Agog! Ripping Reads took place amidst a cocktail party in the middle of the whacking great Australian National Museum, Canberra. There was a stage set up with Jack Dann on it, a podium and a bunch of chairs. I made an arrangement of Agogs on a little table beside the podium. Way [...]

Some folks reckon they don’t believe in a god on account of the fact that there’s not much going in the way of empirical evidence. Well I don’t know about a god — but Kanaloa the squid god is alive and well and kicking butt in the centre of our very own galaxy!

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I never say no to a free bookmark, yet somehow when I need one, all I can find is a dog eared train ticket or a bit of lint from my coat pocket. My house is full of bookmarks stacked in little piles, just waiting for the opportunity to mark my page. There’s a handful [...]