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Normal People, Abnormal Worlds: Young Adult Speculative Fiction as a...

The following is an academic essay, written for my university course. You might find it dull and full of academese. You may not. Don’t say you weren’t warned. Speculative Fiction (SF[1]) and Young...

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I am a sexist, I am a racist, I am a homophobe

Yesterday Elise Catherine Tobler wrote a post discussing a friend of hers, Chris DeFilippis, who had not read a single woman author since 2012. This shocked me. Stunned me, in fact. His response in the...

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Art & the Author, or the Kameron Hurley effect.

I always find it difficult to separate the author and art. I bought God’s War by Kameron Hurley on the day it came out in the UK, some time last year. I bought it for two reasons: firstly, it won …...

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But… I’m a bloke. Sexual Harassment and cons

Last year at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, I was sexually harassed. (Yeah. Trigger warning.) This was weird for me. I didn’t know what to do. Surely sexual harassment is just dirty old men...

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Above and below – Agency in Above by Isla Morley & The Bunker Diary by Kevin...

  Above by Isla Morley and The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks came to me at roughly the same point, from husband and wife team Anne Perry and Jared Shurin. Jared’s review of Brooks’ book made me buy...

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Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge & No Harm Can Come to a Good Man by James Smythe

In Frances Hardinge’s Cuckoo Song, twelve year-old Triss wakes up in a hospital, with a fracturing memory of what has happened before. Slowly, she pieces together that she was in the ‘Grimmer,’ some...

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2015

Over the course of the last six months or so while I’ve been away from this blog, I’ve had some major life changes, and some major realisations. It’s 1am now, on the first day of a New Year. I am, …...

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Science Fiction and Fantasy as ‘home’ genres

I was asked recently about what I read and what I write. Oddly enough I found this very difficult. I was in America, and I was talking to a lady who I knew would read R.A. Salvatore or the Belgariad …...

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Dear Mr Abercrombie, piss somewhere else

I’ve just finished Half the World by Joe Abercrombie, and I loved it. I love all of Abercrombie’s books. He has a voice like no other fantasy writer around: gritty, real, bloody and laid bare. His...

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Regrets

I feel like I’m too young to have regrets. Too young to walk past a place that’s filled with a year of memory, and think ‘what if.’ Too young to watch those the same age, and feel like they know …...

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2013 in Review – Covers

COVERS Never let it be said ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover.’ On the contrary, in the priviledged world in which I live, surrounded by and mildly obsessed with books, a good cover its worth its weight...

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2013 in Review – Events

2013 was a year I came of age. I’m now twenty one. I can legally do pretty much anything except rent a minibus as of this year. In celebration of becoming a fully fledged human I embarked on a year …...

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