OK - found this out there today - it takes me back to the brilliant Arvon Sci-Fi writing course that I had the absolute pleasure of goining on in the summer. We complied out list of fave books and authors, and the list was very similar to this one.

Following is a list of The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years, 1953-2002, ( Read more... )

What a rare delight - to spend a few days remembering my early days online (1997 when I first met Tlyr, arachne, Mandragora and whitecrow in the wild outpost of ASCEM) via the wonderful Voyager-fest currently occuring on seperis LJ, then update my fanfic website and finally dust off those old C/P stories (cringing at their awesome purpleness, and ( Read more... )

So - a new fandom lures me back into the world of LJ. Haven't fallen so hard for a TV show since the Horsegirls pimped Methos and we all watched the face-painting scene fifty times with appropriate squeee!!!

Life on Mars - a work of genius.
The slash potential is the icing on the delicious cake really - the whole thng is so fabulous. I have been ( Read more... )

Back to work in earnest today ( Read more... )

So here I am, languishing in the Purple Palace on a Bank Holiday, trying to summon up the Energy/Will/Desire to paint the bathroom. have the Paint, the Tools, the Bathroom, the Time, but no Energy/Will/Desire.

I do, or course, have plenty of E/W/D to read Pros and Due South Slash, re-read all those SAB e-mails and remember in amazement when I was a ( Read more... )

So now I have icons, and a suitably mauve colour scheme, and I have started the processs of resurrecting my fan-fic website, which was languishing in a Geocities vault with a username that it lost in the mists of time ( Read more... )

So...the lure of LJ has been too strong to resist finally. And so it begins...