Seeds Of Earth book cover – whole shebang-full monty!

Yes, here it is, as moved through the wonder of internet data transfer from Orbit’s machines of wizardry to your eyes! – the full jacket cover to my forthcoming tome, SEEDS OF EARTH, by Steve Stone. Look upon his work in wonder. To see it in greater detail, right click and select open in new [...]

The Amazing Obama Rumour Generator

It struck me, after reading the fifty gazillionth rumour that Barack Obama is the Muslim Antichrist, that what the internet needs now is…..The Amazing Obama Rumour Generator! This simple little process requires only a pen and paper and a 6-sided dice. There are three stages; at each one you roll the dice, note down the outcome and [...]

Creationism And The Strain Of Civilisation

Bill Hicks got it right. When faced with Christian fundamentalists who believe that Earth is 12000 years old (or 6000 or whatever), the appropriate, single-word question is ‘Dinosaurs’. To which the fundies answer ‘Dinosaur fossils? God put those here to test our faith!’
 Why do fundamentalists believe and say what they do? I think it’s to [...]

STAKING OUT MY YOUTUBE CLAIM

Yes, with the skill and art of the redoubtable Mr Peri Urban, yours truly has started up me own Youtube channel, complete with an inaugural movie. Check it out at -
http://uk.youtube.com/user/michaelcobley
Once I figure out how to embed it here, it will be done, for now would you kindly click on da link?

HYPERION by Dan Simmons: Space Opera Deluxe

I`ve been reading space opera since I was practically able to read, and before I hit puberty I was already mainlining on stuff like Tom Swift, Doc Smith and Perry Rhodan. All the furniture of it, the extravagant, powertrip technology, the drama and melodrama, the scale and sheer wild proliferation of life, science and worlds [...]

VP Wars: Sarah Palin Strikes Baaaack!

Man, this whole Sarah Palin thing is getting funkily weird. Like when at the start of the debate she asked Joe Biden if she could call him Joe, and for one transcendent, mind-expanding moment I fantasised that Joe would come straight back with ‘Why sure, so long as I can call you Moose Woman of [...]

The Lost Room and The Theory Of Too-Good TV

Just started, Supersusan and I, to rewatch The Lost Room, a 3-part miniseries aired on the SciFi Channel in December 2006. Don`t have time to go into the detail of it, suffice to say that the story involved a bunch of strange, everyday-looking objects which have strange properties; turns out all these objects were in [...]

IRA DEL BACCANO – Italian Psychedelic Spacey Stoners Give Away Great Album!

Chance, just pure chance can lead you to fantastic wee niches on the net, thus a brief meander past some online metal/rock blogs led me to – IRA DEL BACCANO, about whom little info seems to be available, but they are giving away, free, gratis, a 56 minute album of instrumental, psychedelic spacy stonery rock [...]