It often isn’t their fault, but small presses come and go. Sometimes they last for many years, other times they vanish before they actually publish anything. Best example of that is one to which I contributed a short story for their first anthology many years ago. In September I received the acceptance – in October …
December 2013 archive
A TRIO OF DEATHS.
So far as celebrities and stars go it’s been a lethal month. Peter O’Toole the actor died at 81 in London December 14th. I well remember, in the 1960s, going to see the movie, Laurence of Arabia, that made his name as an actor, The film was brilliant, I’m not at all sure how historically …
STARHAWK by Jack McDevitt.
Hardcover, published ACE, November 2013 I should admit from the start that I’ve never read one of this author’s books that I didn’t like, didn’t expect this to be the exception and it wasn’t. In fact of the “Priscilla Hutchins†series, I enjoyed this most of all. I believe that many authors who’ve written a …
The Sixth Winter by Douglas Orgill & John Gribbin.
Paperback published Futura 1980. I’ve always had a liking for Disaster/Post Holocaust novels and this is a good one. There’s sufficient scientific stuff to be very convincing, and not more of the information that you need to do that, so that the reader isn’t bored or taken beyond what they can understand as an ordinary …
New Article.
Another in my irregular consumer series – DEALING WITH HAY FEVER – appeared Saturday December 7th 2013 in the Dannevirke News(paper). As Christmas bears down on me like a runaway train, I’ve been hurling out articles, stories, and reviews in all directions. (And that isn’t even counting cards and letters.) And, while all of such …
And Again – a gosling.
Yes, a second gosling has joined the gaggle this season. Sister One went off to nest under the bathroom window and sat on two eggs. One hatched. She has continued to sit on the other still so the gaggle have taken over the baby for daytimes. So far junior is three days old and still …
Naive Supermarkets
It occurred to me that some businesses do howl when they kick someone else and stub their own toe. There was a news item about the amount of stock that self-service checkouts in supermarkets are losing. But that goes back to their own decision to lose a number of checkout operators. What you had originally …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – Peter O’Donnell’s MODESTY BLAISE?
I have seen these books described as fantasy now and again over the years, and as such they fit into this article series. But whether they are genuine fantasy or only borderline, I love them so much they’re here anyhow. Peter O’Donnell (born 11th April 1920, died 3rd May 2010) was a writer of mysteries …
Responsibility?
The other night I was watching one of a series of documentaries on TV. The series is entitled The World’s Scariest… this particular one as, Near Misses. And some of the events depicted were very near misses. Not of injuries because a number of those involved were badly injured, but of death. And once the …
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Strayed – One Gaggle.
29 December 2013
I went out to get the mail and say Hi to our rural delivery, was halfway back to the house when he began honking the car-horn and I reversed hastily. What, something more for me? Nope, well, yes, if you consider information as something for me. The very unwanted unwelcome information that almost all of …
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