Flights of imagination are gloriously good and wonderful things. Flights of imagination that come with a fully-realised, beautifully rendered world, compelling characters and a bravely moralistic backbone that isn’t afraid to tackle some substantial issues are even better. Something like Tom Miller’s exquisitely good, The Philosopher’s Flight, a novel that Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
Star Trek: Discovery: “That Hope is You, Part 2” (S3, E3 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … BADASSERY, BROKEN HOLOS AND THE POWER OF FOUND FAMILIES … Wow, well, the final episode of Star Trek: Discovery season 3 is utterly rip your heart out, put it in again brilliant with the humanity of the full speed ahead storyline so breathtakingly good that you have Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Malcolm & Marie, Outside the Wire, Persian Lessons
What a strange holiday period 2020 into 2021 turned out to be. No surprise there since 2020 was, by any and all measures, a very, very strange and disconcerting year but even so, you hope for something magical from the Christmas period, right? Hope springs eternal and all that … Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #41: Solardo & Rowetta, Torren Foot, Kult Kyss, kenzie, Anna Lunoe
Life is hard. So, you need something to make it lighter, brighter and easier such as these five songs from artists who know we are living in pandemic hell but still no good reason why you can’t have some super upbeat, brilliantly danceable fun. And fun you will have with Continue Reading
Comics review: Planet Paradise by Jesse Lonergan
So, what is it you want from a holiday? A chance to luxuriate by the poolside, drinking cocktails and reading a great book? How about gentle walks along a coastal trail, with towering trees on one side and an azure ocean on the other? Or perhaps you want an itinerary Continue Reading
Movie review: Sylvie’s Love
If romance existed solely in the world of the fantastical and the fairytale, then every great meeting of heart and mind would proceed unfettered and unencumbered by the tedious demands of our all too banal world. But alas we do not live in the realm of sweeping, horizon-free love, and Continue Reading
Book review: The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Fiction is in love with the idea of the multiverse. And why would it not be? The idea that there are multiple earths all strung together, cheek-by-jowl on a daisy chain of quantum mechanical marvelry is a beguiling one, ripe as it is with the alluring prospect of infinite possibilities Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: Artistically rendered The Mandalorian quotes
There is a fandom … and then there is FANDOM. That’s not to say that there’s a ranking in fandom; it’s anything but – if you like a show like The Mandalorian, and by extension, Star Wars overall, you are a fan however it is expressed by you. But there Continue Reading
Book review: Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
Giving someone a place they can belong which is safe and secure, which allows them to thrive and not simply get by, and which is loving and full of care is just about the greatest gift you can give someone. Deep down somewhere, 14-year-old autistic teenager Ginny Moon, the eponymous Continue Reading
Comics review: The Montague Twins – The Witch’s Hand by Nathan Page and Drew Shannon
Diving into a thrilling, mysterious adventure is one of the most exhilarating things you can do. While these are in short supply in the real world, given its predisposition to banality and the same-old, same-old, they are in multitudinous abundance in graphic novels such as the late-1960s set The Montague Continue Reading