Interview Over At Dave Brendon’s Fantasy & SciFi Weblog

Like the title says, a short interview done with David Jooste and which you can read by clicking yon wee linky thing….
http://davebrendon.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/an-interview-with-michael-coble-interview/

Primeval S3 Ep5: Wince And Wince Again

Well, maybe the scriptwriters saw this episode as a homage to the Quatermass Experiment. God knows it wasn’t a homage to writing that made any kind of rational sense. Characters doing stupid things just to keep the plot moving along, like having a Rich Berk’s PA stupidly assume that the anomaly that appears before him is [...]

Seeds Of Earth Review: Dave Brendon’s Fantasy & Scifi Weblog

Dave Brendon was actually one of the outwith-the-UK winners of the SOE compo a few weeks ago, and was the recipient of a poster and a bookmark, being the small baubles that my finances stretch to. I later learned that Dave has his own review blog, as titled above, and he was generous enough to [...]

Eastercon 2009 Bradford: The Magical Bus Tour Con

Okay, now that some of the dust has settled I can set down some of my impressions about LX2009, the Bradford Eastercon (and the 60th Eastercon held in these fair isles). The convention itself, held at the Cedar Court Hotel, was quite neatly laid out, with all the main rooms, all easily and quickly accessible, [...]

Primeval S3 Ep 4: The Call Of The Mild

Here’s a little story from my distant past. While growing up in Clydebank, Scotland, my best buddy was (and remains) a guy called Stewart; he lived not far from my parents’ house and we hung out a lot, talking about SF and comics, listening to music, even making music and weird, Pythonesque, cast-of-a-thousand sketches. Once [...]

Primeval Season 3 Episode 3: Why It Sucked

Aar, but it only appears that I missed blogging about Primeval cos I was away in Bradford, attending Eastercon along with a megagaggle of other writers, editors, readers, critics and sundry mighty-brained fans. Apart from the cough thats been dogging me for over a week, a good weekend was had, such that certain career advancements [...]

Eastercon: Getting Psyched Up

Just to let you know that with just a coupla days till Eastercon I`m currently focussing heavily on the writing (including notes towards the project after Humanitys Fire). So there wont be a lot of blogging here until the Monday/Tuesday. But I would like to make mention of a couple of outstanding events which have [...]

Primeval Season 3: What The Hell Happened? – Updated

Part The First
In which eager young(looking) Mikey sits down for episode two of Primeval Season 3, hoping for a good TV experience….
But it was sadly not to be. Sorry but I gotta say this – on the strength of the 1st couple of episodes, Primeval S3 is an unmitigated load of rancid donkey balls. I`m [...]

Heaven & Hell: Bible Black. Stomping Rifftastic Goodness!

Can’t help it, I am and will always be a Black Sabbath fan, Dio or Ozzy (who I never compare as they are different vocalists with their own strength and failings). Even if they have to put on a vestigial mask by calling themselves Heaven & Hell…they still rule. I saw them, with Dio, on [...]