Edge. Thomas Blackthorne. Sf Site. 2010.
My recent disinterrment of some of my posts on OneTouchFootball.com included this nil thread about blades, which included a now-dead link to a site on all things blade. Revisiting SF Site reviews, I find…
Review of “The Extra”, Michael Shea, SF Site 2010
I began writing for SF site to try and shake up some of my writing and reading choices. I recall this review as one where I felt I found my…
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…
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…
Séamus Sweeney 