A note on magazines.
Recently I came across a copy of The Search For Something More by Peter Hannan, S.J. , subtitled “A Journey to Human Fulfillment”, published in 2001. Who doesn’t want to be fulfilled? “We live…
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Review of “Pink Noise”, Leonid Korogoski, SF Site, 2011
This was a stimulating read. To a certain degree, something not unlike what I internally call The Oxford Murders Effect was at play in this review – the context of when I read…
One Touch Football – A Retrospective
Finding my piece on Glasgow Celtic unexpectedly archived on One Touch Football has set me thinking about my time on that forum. A little Googling this evening has revealed lots more of my musings…
Glasgow Celtic Coma Scale. The Magazine 2000, Setanta.com around the same time…
. This originally appeared in a zine I briefly produced called The Magazine. It then appeared on the Setanta website when it mainly a text based thing. It has got…
Review of “Red Inferno”, Robert Conroy, SF Site 2010
My first SF Site review, and continuing the theme of alternate history. Conroy’s work is much more straightforwardly alternate history than Owen Sheers’ Resistance , and a much less impressive literary work,…
Review of “Resistance” by Owen Sheers. Alt Hist blog. Sept 2012
All historical fiction is in some way “alternate history” fiction. As a genre however, alternate history is explicitly counterfactual. “Alt hist”, with its echoes of “alt country”, for me…
Jorge Luis Borges, Ireland, and Historical Fiction. Alt Hist, September 9th 2012
With a less than enticing opening line (“The Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was one of the key figures in world literature during the twentieth century.”), this piece seems…
Review of “Through A Distant Mirror Darkly”, by Mark Lord. SF Site 2014
I read Tim Severin’s The Brendan Voyage over the last few days – a wonderful adventure story and a stirring depiction of how medieval technology was adapted to the conditions it faced.…
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