Nabokov and Epilepsy – my letter to the TLS
I have a Letter to the Editor in the current TLS responding to Galya Diment’s piece on Vladimir Nabokov and epilepsy. The letter is behind a paywall but you can see the much…
Category: wry scepticism
To Solve Everything, Click Here – Evgeny Morozov
I first came across Evgeny Morozov via the computer history mailing list SIGCIS. In essence, Morozov had written a New Yorker piece which drew heavily on the work of the…
The tale of the Tomason part 1 – review of “Burning Days” by Glenn Grant, SF Site 2011
In reviewing this book, I first came across (as described below), the term “Tomason.” I thought it would be something that would have cult status online, but Google revealed very…
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 “Future Media”, ed. Rick Wilber, SF Site, 2012
I had a fruitful email correspondence with Rick Wilber after this. My dislike of the uncritical celebration fan fic – also evident here – as something radical and innovative rather than derivative…
An unpublished review: Review of “THE GREAT WAR: STORIES INSPIRED BY OBJECTS FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918” – written for Children’s Books Ireland, Sept 2014
This capsule review took a lot of work and in the end wasn’t used for CBI’s Recommended Reading guide. I guess because I didn’t recommend it. I recently have been…
A Theatre of Pure Stichomythia: Twitter and the Tragic. Nthposition, June 2011
Four years on and I tweet sporadically . I despise the perpetual hype machine that is social media, the endless churning of self-righteousness and cheap enthusiasm. I also tend to get caught…
Séamus Sweeney 