Anne McCaffrey, the US born author who was one of the first female writers to break into Sci-Fi has died, age 85. She is best remembered for her Dragonriders of Pern series, which started out fantasy and became more and more sci-fi as the series went on. I first read the Pern books in my [...]
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So there I was last week flicking through the TV channels and saw a show coming up – A History of Scotland. With my Scottish heritage and love of things Scottish (especially the bagpipes) I’d thought I’d check it out. The episode covered the time from Romans first met the Picts right up to the [...]
Sir Peter Jackson
Posted: January 1, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: lord of the rings, movies, peter jackson
News coming out of New Zealand is that Peter Jackson, best known for bringing us the Lord of the Rings movies is know Sir Peter Jackson, a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. New Zealand had scrapped knighthoods from their honours list back in 2000 when the previous government was in power. [...]
Apparently this is my 100th post on this site. Bit of a milestone. During that time there have been 37 comments and a bit over 600 hits. Would have hoped there might be more, but it takes a while to build up to these things. Of course, if I had devoted all that writing to [...]
Are Video Games Adequately Preparing Our Children For the Apocalypse?
Posted: February 26, 2009 in General, UncategorizedTags: computer games, fallout 3, humour, the onion, zombies
From The Onion comes this amusing video, which appealed to the gamer in me immensely. Onion Video
And so once more the old trap rears its ugly head. There I am working away at Winter Wolves and a totally unrelated story idea pops up and demands attention. Bad brain, bad brain. But I am not falling for it this time, no sir. Instead I wrote down a brief plot idea from that [...]
