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The ‘ends’ of Doctor Who?

Posted on July 18, 2017 by

Just to be clear I borrow most of this. it does however exactly express my own view… 23/11/1963 – Doctor Who begins. Doctor Who dies. 21/12/1963 – Silly robot monsters introduced into informative historical series. Doctor Who dies. 26/12/1964 – … Continue reading →

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The Rare Unsigned Copy: and other mistakes

Posted on July 6, 2017 by

“You don’t really want one of the signed copies, what you really want is one of those rare unsigned copies.” Laughter echoed around the bar at the Blackpool landlords amusing quip… Possibly because this was one of the funniest things anyone … Continue reading →

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Life in the Passing Place

Posted on February 17, 2017 by

Step in from the cold, through the saloon door of the strangest bar in creation. A place where causality is just a set of rules and the rules can be bent. Where no one knows your name, but everyone has … Continue reading →

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The Statement of Randolph Carter: The Complete Lovecraft #14

Posted on February 15, 2017 by

This is one of those tales you come across in Lovecraft’s mythos that leaves you with no more than a half-hearted um… It’s just simple and straightforward without any real depth to it. A run of the mill tale that … Continue reading →

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Oswald Bastable: The Original Steampunk Trilogy

Posted on February 14, 2017 by

H.G.Wells and Jules Verne share the honour of being amongst the father’s Science Fiction, and retrospectively the fathers of Steampunk. There is little doubt the Verne and Wells influence on Steampunk is huge, though their tales are set in a … Continue reading →

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#passingplace

Posted on October 3, 2016 by

the gunslingers tale … The forest in the cellar… The girl in the nighttime

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When we were seventeen by Waiting for Wednesday Album review

Posted on December 18, 2015 by

Having subjected everyone to my ‘music journalism‘ in my last post. I had no real intention of ever doing so again as I don’t claim to know much about music beyond what I like. I will admit what I like … Continue reading →

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