Friday 22 January 2016

The Speculative Book....


Our friends over at The Speculative Bookshop have finally unleashed their much anticipated sci-fi debut anthology, The Speculative Book. Clocking in at an impressive 220 pages or so, and featuring 28 short stories with titles like Snafu, Roadkill, Black Box, The Grand Order of Strathclyde, Treehugger, Blood Farm, Deep Draw and The Little Difference Engine That Could  - from writing talents as diverse as Emeline Morin, Iain Maloney, Pete Sutton, Sarah Gailey, Neil Williamson and Konstantina Braoudaki - and several accompanying illustrations (yep, Agent Rob made the grade) - this is not to be missed! Get your year off to a truly rocketing start with the e-book, available here....


Physical copies should be available soon - keep an eye on the SB facebook and/or events page for more details of the when and where you can exchange some hard earned credits for a copy....

Saturday 9 January 2016

A Chronicle of Doom....


A decidedly happy New Year visit to Ice Station on Thor'sday of this week, Agent Johnny once again on tip top form. Contented chuntering (and stewing) was the order of the day, and the Omen II, Metropolis, and Ben Macintyre's Double Cross were discussed at length in 'Ze Smoking Room'. After another quick Freeview install The Horror Channel was returned to it's rightful place on Channel Seven-Oh, Our Man in Pester Whailes managing to resist settling down in front of a 'just started' episode of The Avengers enough to fire up the rekkid player for a bout of Bob Dylan instead....


With his wits more about him this visit Agent Rob made no mistake and duly successfully delivered his books to the Legal Deposit Library in Causewayside St, popping in to Deadhead Comics - where Agent Austin was reeling from a(n admittedly five*) one* review on Google - fer a quick New Year's drink on the way....

Sounds: Desire and Street Legal by Bob Dylan: On the Air 7" by The Lines....

Bob Dylan - Hurricane (Live)