HiLobrow hero: Sun Ra

In praise of the otherworldly genius of Sun [...]

HiLobrow hero: Russell T Davies

My brief appreciation of Russell T Davies, the man who revived Doctor [...]

Not The Red Men teaser 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 [...]

Very short story competition - and I am a judge

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

John Carpenter on the set of Ghosts of Mars with Ice Cube

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 that [...]

The Year Of The Sex Olympics

Nigel Kneale’s anticipates the nasty underbelly of reality television with this BBC play, reviewed by Matthew De [...]

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 [...]

SF:UK Big Brother Goes Hardcore part I

Episode of SF:UK, a documentary series about British science fiction, featuring Nigel Kneale and The Year of the Sex [...]