I was both shocked and thrilled to discover this week that my short story "Havana Augmented" has been nominated for the prestigious British Science Fiction Association Award for Short Fiction. The story was published almost exactly a year ago in the ...Read More
I'll be honest with you, I'm sick of writing about death. If the recent loss of Satoshi Kon to cancer wasn't enough, then anime was struck another blow last week with the death of Umanosuke Iida to the dreaded disease at ...Read More
Something different to kick off the second half of 2010, and to show what I'm going to be up to for the next few months. A teaser for my current project - and debut novel - God's Switch, hopefully being ...Read More
It's not even Christmas yet, but for me 2010 has already got off to a good start. January 1st sees the publication of my story Havana Augmented - a tale of globalization, celebrity gamers, augmented reality and non-existent mech battles. ...Read More
I was stupid lucky enough this Friday to make the 400+ mile round journey up north to the Leeds International Film Festival for the day. Given the length of the journey and the insane price of train tickets here in ...Read More
Something a little different today - something not directly related to anime or manga - but something I'm pretty sure you'll agree is pretty damn cool. A few years ago, whilst innocently browsing for mecha reference images for one of my ...Read More
A couple of quick news updates for you: this Sunday (May 3rd) sees the annual Sci-Fi London Film Festival's annual Anime All Nighter swing into action - highlights this year being a showing of the controversial Ghost in the Shell ...Read More
(Note: This is the third and final part of an ongoing review of RideBack. Read the first and second parts.) As Japan's winter anime season ends, so too does what was arguably it's highlight: Atsushi Takahashi’s 12 part series RideBack. A ...Read More
(Note: This is the second part of an ongoing review of RideBack. The first part can be read here and the final part here.) If you read my review last month of the first three episodes of Atsushi Takahashi's teenage mecha ...Read More
If you've read this site before, or even just glanced over it's archives, then my appreciation and admiration of director Mamoru Oshii is clearly laid out. As such it would seem not only redundant but also somewhat self indulgent to ...Read More
