Ben Markovits, ‘You Don’t Have To Live Like This’ (2015)[Note. I no longer post new material to this site: I’ve moved, where new writing is concerned, to Substack, for frankly mercenary reasons…Aug 25Aug 25
Ben Markovits, Playing Days (2010)[Note. I no longer post new material to this site: I’ve moved, where new writing is concerned, to Substack, for frankly mercenary reasons…Aug 25Aug 25
Published inAdam’s NotebookThe Stirk of Stirk (1974)What an oddity this book is. Tinniswood was, in his day, a quite successful comic novelist, writing mostly in Northern-English realist…Aug 10A response icon1Aug 10A response icon1
Published inAdam’s Notebook‘Pinocchio’ (2022: directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson)The buzz on del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) was very promising (Mark Kermode thought it a near flawless five-star masterpiece) so I sat down to…Apr 27Apr 27
Published inAdam’s NotebookThe First Generation StarshipSince faster-than-light travel is impossible, and the stars are so very, very far away, any craft making interstellar journeys will take…Apr 13Apr 13
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 15A response icon1Mar 15A response icon1
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
