Monthly Archive: April 2008

Apr 27

Mr Potato Head and his Strategem

As you can see, I’m really struggling with my titles for these Doctor Who reviews.  I’m not actually sure why I don’t just state the title – but that would be dull, I suppose. Anywho, in short:  Better than Daleks in Manhattan.  Just. Look, I wasn’t expecting much from The Sontaran Strategem.  Not surprising, really, …

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Apr 24

I really don’t do this enough…

… you know, this whole promotion of my writing thing. Anywho, Defining Patterns is now officially out in the UK.  The lovely George Ivanoff, who also has a story in the anthology, tells me he’s received his contributor copy so I’m sure mine is right around the corner. As I’ve probably mentioned in a previous …

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Apr 21

The Passover Ood

There’s probably something in the Talmud that says you shouldn’t tie Passover (or any Jewish festival) with a Season 4 episode of Doctor Who.  Well… maybe not that precise, but I’m sure Rabbi Akiva or Rabbi Tarfon, while sitting up all night and discussing the Jewish Exodus from Egypt, might have spared a thought for …

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Apr 15

Go out and buy

2012. Because it’s a wonderful short story collection (which I read over the weekend), written by a bunch of talented writers.  I’m not going to do a full review, because there’s about 9 of them online, such as this very good one here, and I don’t really have much to add.  But because I really think …

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Apr 14

Because I promised to do this…

… here’s a short, but brilliantly insightful review of Fires of Pompeii In short:  Interesting.  But could have been more. I’ll be honest here, this review in particular will be an amalgam of my own thoughts and stuff that other people have said.  Yeah, it’s a pretty crap tactic for a reviewer to steal the …

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Apr 06

Partners in Crime

Because this is the last Season of Who before the break, I thought I’d review each episode this season.  I’ll put each review under a cut for those who don’t want to be spoilered (is that word?). Anyway, the one line non-spoiler review would be: Harmless fun.   So, yeah, that was a bit of …

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Apr 02

I’ve been interviewed

The lovely Kirstyn and I have been interviewed by Shane Cummings about editing issue 1 of Midnight Echo at HorrorScope.  Most of the best and sensible answers come from Kirstyn.  I just crap on about the good old days in the Australian Horror Society.   The two of us also recommend our favourite Aussie horror writers …

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