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 151Mar 151
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 131Feb 131
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
