Published inAdam’s NotebookStar Wars: Crash 2“A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer…Mar 15Mar 15
Published inAdam’s Notebook“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, aka ‘Daniels’ 2022)Every review everywhere all-of-them agrees on the excellence of this movie, and I’m certainly not going to disagree. It is (maybe) a tad…Mar 14Mar 14
Published inAdam’s NotebookBrian Aldiss, ‘Life in the West’ (1980)It’s not science fiction, this novel, although it includes some discussion of science fiction, and a few glancing SF-ishnesses. Life in the…Feb 23Feb 23
Published inAdam’s NotebookIain M. Banks, “Inversions” (1998)I bought Inversions from Methven’s Bookshop (remember them?) in 1998 when it came out; £16.99 which-was-a-lot-of-money-back-then, signed by…Feb 13Feb 13
Published inAdam’s NotebookHow I Define “Science Fiction”[The original 2017 publication of this post, in a now defunct blog, carried this headnote: “I’m just back from the Edinburgh Book Festival…Jan 93Jan 93
Published inAdam’s NotebookDante and Clive (Live)I re-read some Dante, in part because I was kicking around the idea that Tennyson wrote his Maud on Dantean lines (you can read the post…Dec 3, 2024Dec 3, 2024
SubstackshipsThings are quiet around here now, because I’ve started a Substack and that’s where I’m posting the kinds of things I used to post here…Nov 27, 2024Nov 27, 2024
Published inAdam’s NotebookThe Stream of Consciousness‘Consciousness flows. A “river” or a “stream” are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let…Oct 22, 2024Oct 22, 2024
Published inAdam’s NotebookMartial 1.35: Two TranslationsMartial’s epigram doesn’t have a title, but we could, if we wanted, call it ‘A Poem Needs A Cock’. Here it is, and my literal translation…Oct 16, 2024Oct 16, 2024
Published inAdam’s NotebookMatthew Arnold, ‘Requiescat’ (1853)Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!Oct 14, 2024Oct 14, 2024
