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Clarke award: Our revels now are ended
After two years my duties as a Science Fiction Foundation judge for the Arthur C. Clarke award have come to an end. Last Wednesday we gave China Miéville the award for The City and The City: an...
View ArticleHex: the film
I have some exciting news for Hex fans. Ever since the trilogy was first published I’ve had letters from fans asking me if there could be a film of the books – there’s at least one thread on the forums...
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Save UK libraries!
Public libraries all over the UK have been threatened with closure. Some have closed already, other closures have been announced, still more are in danger of being closed. Almost 400 libraries...
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Enter the VOID
I’ve been really looking forward to showing this to people. It’s the cover of the US bindup of the Hex trilogy which will be published by Simon and Schuster later this year. It’ll be called VOID (a new...
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Things I can do while reading
The things I can do while reading now include knitting! It’s not very good knitting – but it will get better a lot faster now I can read while doing it. This is the current tally of things I can do...
View ArticleMy top ten favourite XYZ: computer games
In the spirit of random bloggery… I used to post “tenlists” on a previous website and I’ve decided to revive them. Check out my recommended reading posts for top tens of different types of books. But...
View ArticleMy top ten XYZ: favourite songs
According to iTunes my top ten favourite songs are All These Things That I’ve Done, The Killers Clint Eastwood, Gorillaz Give Me Novacaine, Green Day Hit That, The Offspring Killer, ATB Mack the Knife,...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day: “The Taxis” by Louis MacNeice
Today is National Poetry Day. In honour of the day, I’m sharing a poem I learned when I was about ten. My father always keeps a book of poetry in the car and I read and learned by heart many poems this...
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Television ratings
I was looking up US TV ratings while on the phone to a friend, via a wikipedia page that suggested one of our favourite shows is dropping alarmingly in the ratings. In 2013/14 the top rated (non...
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My current top ten songfest
These aren’t my favourite songs ever, just what turns up in iTunes listed as the current top ten top starred. But I have good reasons for starring them. “Cool” video still Cool [feat. Roy English],...
View ArticleApproaching the end of The Good Wife
SPOILERS FOR THE GOOD WIFE up to S07e16 The current season of The Good Wife will likely be the last and I’m going to miss it. Personally I’d like to see a Good Wife spin off called Lockhart and...
View ArticleFirst class
So, I’ve decided to dust off this blog to stimulate my writing muscles. Trust me, I am always writing the novel – it’s just that some of that is thinking about the novel, deleting sections of novel and...
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Virtuous Cycle
In January I wrote about attending my first fitness class at the gym, the classes I’d tried and what I thought of them. I wrote about attending morning classes because it was hard to motivate myself...
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So very goals
“If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.”On the 8th of May 2017 I set a weight loss goal in my Fitbit app. I actually set one earlier and pressed the wrong button but the 8th of...
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Fictoplasm podcasts
FictoplasmDid you know I occasionally appear on a podcast? Now you do. My friend Ralph Lovegrove runs Fictoplasm, a (mostly) science fiction podcast about books and roleplaying games. I’ve appeared in...
View ArticleReview: The Refrigerator Monologues
I wrote a review of The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M Valente. Read it on Writers Review.
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RhiWrites’ PokemonGO Raid Guide
I wrote this in March this year but someone asked about raiding today and that reminded me I wrote this but didn’t post it anywhere. Here’s my guide to raiding in PokemonGO. So you want to be a Pokémon...
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Change is possible, you can do it, I did!
I wrote this post on the 11th of January 2018, one year ago, about going to the gym and attending classes. I was thinking about it the other day and thinking about how much has changed since then. I...
View ArticleBimbling around in startup land
I’ve been having ever such adventures with startups. My new lifestyle (since March this year) takes place in startup land and I am learning all about innovation spaces and the ecosystem of incubators...
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Zumba is my happy place
On the 4th of January 2018 I took my first Zumba class. “This is a happy class,” Eli, the instructor told me. “It doesn’t matter if you know the steps.” She was right about the first part. Zumba makes...
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