Fantasy With a Hint of Asian Spices
I’m joined by Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Hugo Award winning Children of Time Series, Shadow of the Apt Series, Echoes of the Fall Series, Dogs of War Series, The Tyrant Philosophers Series, The Final Architecture Series, and a large number of standalone novels. He won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Children of Time, […]
Read More Adrian Tchaikovsky InterviewThe latest blog post is now available over on YouTube:
Read More Fantasy & Faith Ep.4It’s the UNESCO World Poetry Day today. This year’s theme is Peace and Unity. It’s also the 21st day of Ramadan, and I have secluded myself for the next 10 days in a masjid to seek peace within myself and oneness with the Almighty. In keeping with the day and theme, I will try and […]
Read More World Poetry Day 2025I watched this video highlighed by the ALCS on writing generated by an AI and it freaked me out. The video features the award-winning poet, Laura Mucha, as she reads out two poems about global warming. One poem has been written by her and the other by AI. She challenges the viewer to figure out […]
Read More The AI WriterI’ve been working hard for the past five years to complete my PhD whilst working part-time and volunteering once a week. I have a family that makes demands of my time. Fitting in reading for pleasure is way down in that priority list. So when I do read these days it’s got to be good. […]
Read More Is there time to re-read books?1. Don’t answer the phone. 2. Avoid your siblings and friends 3. Rip your modem out of the socket 4. Drop your smartphone into toilet 5. Wrap your laptop in foil 6. Don’t go into work 7. Definitely don’t read a magazine or newspaper (do people still do that?) 8. Put earplugs in when outside […]
Read More How to avoid spoilers in ten steps?A Star Wars spoof that takes its pointers from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Month Python.
Read More Book Review: Starship Grifters by Robert KroeseMidnight Flight Things started to go pear-shaped for Zach Caan when a Madrid airport security officer mistook him for an infamous baby-faced terrorist. The teachers who had accompanied his class on the trip to Spain waited until the last minute before boarding the flight home. Getting the rest of the kids home was apparently a […]
Read More Exclusive Preview: The Adventures of Some KidLong time followers will be aware that as well as writing book reviews, I also write fiction (surprise!). My latest contribution to the world comes in the form of a Young Adult adventure story (with elements of mystery and mysticism), titled The Adventures of Some Kid. The protagonist, Zach Caan is a regular kid who […]
Read More Interview: Elbert Lim, ArtistMy Rating: 4/5 A genre-bending love story by the award-winning author of the Double Helix books, Jade Kerrion. Every full-moon for a thousand years the humans of Aeternae Noctis have dreaded the arrival of the vampires who steal away their five year old children. Now it’s the turn of the child who has been prophesied […]
Read More Exclusive Preview: Eternal Night by Jade Kerrion