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Psychedelic SF
HiLobrow hero: Sun Ra
In praise of the otherworldly genius of Sun Ra.
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HiLobrow hero: Russell T Davies
My brief appreciation of Russell T Davies, the man who revived Doctor Who
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Not The Red Men trailer
This fake teaser trailer for The Red Men movie by Shynola makes me want to write all day and all night, to bring more of this world out.
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Judging a very short story competition
The glorious Hilobrow.com are running a very short story competition, for which I am acting as a judge. Readers are invited to submit a short-short (250 words maximum) story about a troubled/troubling superman or -woman. Closing date is 5pm EST on Monday February 15th.
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Hilobrow – John Carpenter
Few cultural scraps are as redolent of lo-fi VHS genre pleasures than a movie trailer with JOHN CARPENTER’s (born 1948) name above the title and his own analog synth score. Carpenter’s breakthrough was Dark Star (1974), a wiseass repudiation of 2001: A Space Odyssey’s intergalactic awe. Bits of the movie’s code can be discerned...
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Jonny Mugwump’s Weird Tales For Winter
Starting on midnight of the 25th January, Resonance FM will be broadcasting a series of specially-commissioned collaborations between writers and musicians, Weird Tales For Winter, curated by the incomparable Jonny Mugwump and including my own collaboration with the West Norwood Cassette Library, entitled The Dinner Party Wars
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The Stone Tape
It’s hard for 21st Century whippersnappers to appreciate the impact Nigel Kneale’s 1950s Quatermass serial had on the nation. Back when there was only one channel, and the programmes all went out live, a writer could step out of Alexandria Palace, look out across the TV aerials rigging the dark London skyline and know...
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The Year Of The Sex Olympics
Nigel Kneale's anticipates the nasty underbelly of reality television with this BBC play, reviewed by Matthew De Abaitua
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SF:UK Big Brother Goes Hardcore part II
Part II of the SF:UK episode, Big Brother Goes Hardcore, featuring Nigel Kneale, Quatermass, The Prisoner, Big Brother and 1984
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Shynola’s Red Men online scrapbook
- Human tracking 08/02/2012"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."Winston Churchill […]
- From real, to virtual, to real. 04/02/2012[…]
- Anthropomorphism and the social robot 04/02/2012The use of human-like features for social interaction with people can facilitate our social understanding. It is the explicit designing of anthropomorphic features, such as a head with eyes and a mouth that may facilitate social interaction. This highlights the issue that socialinteraction is fundamentally observer-dependent, and exploring the mechanisms und […]
- Looking for patterns. 03/02/2012[…]
- HEAD 03/02/2012[…]
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