Occasional extras that supplement and complement the essay published on Speculative Insight.

Eric de Roulet explores how Premee Mohamed's fiction depicts the experience of living under a totalitarian regime, and how it reflects real-world experiences.

We go straight from defeating Apophis in the first episode (following a cliffhanger at the end of the last season!) – including truly hilarious CGI of NASA’s shuttle, and also the hilar…

A journal for exploring the ideas and themes that stand behind, inform, and develop out of, speculative fiction.

We go straight from defeating Apophis in the first episode (following a cliffhanger at the end of the last season!) – including truly hilarious CGI of NASA’s shuttle, and also the hilar…

A Canadian plays an American and an Englishman plays a Russian in what is basically propaganda for “can’t we just all get along?” … does that make it Canadian propaganda? I …

A blog series in which I reread LOTR 50 years after I first read it, age 10, over the winter of 1975-76. (I seem to have spent months writing this post, which has once again spun off at some length…

A short trailer for my essay "His Family of Monsters" for Speculative Insight. Wherein I look at (some of) the ways in which John Wiswell's novels use asexual and aromantic perspectives to build…

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

Radio National's Top 100 Australian Books is here. Vote for your favourites and listen on Sat 17 and Sun 18 October as we count down your votes.

NCIS is 1,124 episodes and 53 seasons deep. This is the trailer for the latest iteration and it got me thinking. That is Ladies Love Cool James himself as NCIS Agent, Navy SEAL and man whose entire back day workout is carrying his backstory, Sam Hanna. First introduced in NCIS: Los Angeles, now on his […]

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Coode Street picks up our recent conversation about short fiction with James Patrick Kelly and Michael Swanwick with Cadwell Turnbull, whose excellent short fiction collection All the Hidden Places is...

A short story project

Foucault was pretty far wrong, and I was wrong when I believed him and everyone else who took him as their starting point for the history of prisons... The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a paying subscriber through…

I just realised I should have started this rewatch next year… for the thirtieth anniversary of season 1. Across this season, many things have happened! There’s a lot of Teal’c bac…

I just realised I should have started this rewatch next year… for the thirtieth anniversary of season 1. Across this season, many things have happened! There’s a lot of Teal’c bac…

Universal’s Fast & Furious franchise of action films has been one of 21st century Hollywood’s greatest success stories. As the series celebrates 25 years, it is worth skipping back …

Apparently I last read, and reviewed, this in 2012. Most of the reason for that is that my sister had my copy for some reason, and she’s just returned it to me. This was published in 1989, an…

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A short trailer for my essay "His Family of Monsters" for Speculative Insight. Wherein I look at (some of) the ways in which John Wiswell's novels use asexual and aromantic perspectives to build…

Hey! I finally watched Project Hail Mary and it was wonderful. I don’t like Weir’s books much, but I sure do like the well-funded fanfiction based on his...

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