writing style – SEVEN CIRCUMSTANCES

by MMB May 21, 2018

Into the mind of an author: Ruuf Wangersen (author of The Pleasure Model Repairman)

Ruuf Wangersen’s debut novel is The Pleasure Model Repairman, reviewed here. I was fascinated by this new author and theContinue Reading

by MMB February 16, 2018

Backstories Discussion of writing style Literary analysis

1 The Creative Process – Mad, bad and dangerous to know

In Charles Bukowski’s famous novel, Hollywood, one of his many famous cult classics, his alter-ego “Henry Chinaski” describes actors asContinue Reading

by MMB September 4, 2017

Current events Discussion of current events Discussion of genre Discussion of writing style Review of new book Review of science fiction Reviews of short stories

Reality from a different perspective – Giants at the End of the World, Finnish Weird anthology

At the 75th World Science Fiction Conference (Worldcon 75) held in August 2017 in Helsinki, Finland, the bag of goodiesContinue Reading

by MMB June 29, 2017

Backstories Discussion of writing style Review of new science fiction Review of science fiction

Depicted like a painting – The One-Eyed Man by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

You know the colour “octarine”? It’s the colour of magic, visible only to magicians and cats, a sparkly, glowing combinationContinue Reading

by MMB March 2, 2014

Review of new book Review of new novel Review of novel

Umbrella, by Will Self – Writing as avant-garde Jazz

(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012) You have to be determined to finish Umbrella. It’s 379 pages of text with no line breaks.Continue Reading