Torchwood - Asylum is on Radio 4 tomorrow afternoon.

Interview here with Ken Hite, the author of The Day After Ragnarok.

Radio 4's The Today programme broadcast a short discussion of the Space Opera genre.

It was broadcast at 08:50. (So you need to scroll down a bit...)

Critical Hits has the results of the 2009 Origins Awards.

The website for http://www.originsgamefair.com/ -- where the awards are held, does not.

Nor does the page devoted to the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design.

No other website does. No gaming news site does. The Mouseguard website does ( Read more... )

Sent lulucthulhu off to her works do with the suggestion that she have as tolerable a time as was possible. Which compared to me, is incredibly tolerant. I could not tolerate a works do where I work. Free, but boring versus doing what I want to do, and with my money? Oh the latter every time. Of course, any works do where I work would devolve to the lowest ( Read more... )

I rarely go out in the garden. It is not just the fact that I hate gardening, but at this time of year, it is not the best place to be.

As has been proved this evening. lulucthulhu called me out to see next door's new kitten, Skittles. She is cute, being white with large black, tabby, and ginger splodges. Curious as young kittens are, she amused herself with ( Read more... )

Alex completed her last exam today. Her primary concern was not having to wear her school uniform ever again. Well that and a band she wants to see in September.

She is so pleased with herself.

In the meantime, I hope that she can catch up with some of the books and DVDs I gave her for her birthday and Christmas.

If you are of a certain age, you will remember Target Books and numerous novelisations of the Doctor Who adventures that it published.The BBC broadcast a rather enjoyable documentary, On the Outside it Looked Like an Old Fashioned Police Box on Radio 4. It was matched by the article, The Tome Lord. True, the article repeats a great deal of the ( Read more... )

This article in the Guardian discusses the background behind the recent cancellation of ITV's only home grown genre shows of the last ten years,* Demons and Primeval. There has been much discussion of late with regard to the falling revenues in commercial television, and this article highlights the effects of that. Essentially, the cancellation of ( Read more... )

Finally getting down to the editing that I have been promising myself all week. It took a phone call with the author to allay my fears of going too far. I do not quite have carte blanche, but if the text is made better by my suggestions or changes, then I have the permission needed.