Nicholas Royle

Excellent. Nice find.

This makes me think of a great story by @writemeave.bsky.social and a wonderful novel by @livimichael.bsky.social both of which I highly recommend. Also stories by Christopher Burns and David Constantine.

Andrew Windsor to star in remake of Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 in Cyril Cusack role.

Sounds v likely.

I wonder what NON means in this context.

Seriously, though. I organise it for many years & the new organiser is often short of a player or two. Or have you moved to LA?

No, but I know of a game that often needs players on a Wednesday night in Stockport.

Yes, and I mention the ridiculous title of that book. He says his title was inspired by A Clockwork Orange, which let’s not forget is about a self-aggrandising young man accused of rape.

I never understood why anyone thought he was OK.

Good advice. Thank you.

Anything that keeps them out of the hands of the impressionable.

I’ve finished my new book-about-books. These can go in the recycling.

Thanks to @wjdavies.bsky.social & @review31.bsky.social for this great review of four recent @nightjarpress.bsky.social publications by @rlsummerling.bsky.social @bookishleels.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social & Joe Stretch

Wonderful. Thank you.

Between the pages Collections of short stories are sometimes made from previously published material, offering few surprises beyond the sequencing of the pieces. Paris

Absent or present? Gothic or uncanny? Fantastic or fantastique?

My @thetls.bsky.social review of Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle

www.the-tls.com/literature/f...

That’s brightened my day considerably. Thank you.

YouTube video by Hats Off Entertainment The Best of Leslie Nielsen Farting on TV

Leslie Neilsen took his fart machine to every TV interview ever did. Watching him work it is a joy. Low humour? Sure. But in dark days that's exactly what you need.
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First leukaemia patient to get pioneering drug on NHS says it is 'very sci-fi' Oscar Murphy has an aggressive form of the blood cancer and is the first to get CAR-T therapy in the UK.

CAR salesman OsCAR received CAR-T therapy for aggressive leukaemia & is doing well 🚙🩵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’ve got the same edition you’ve got & have been meaning to read it, so I will.

My story about Michael Haneke’s films and @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social originally published in Paris Fantastique @confingopublishing.bsky.social is now online at Barcelona Review www.barcelonareview.com/114/e_nr.html

Ah, I see where you’re coming from.

I watched this in November 2022, followed by a rather dull 1993 remake directed by David Jones with Kyle MacLachlan as Josef K.

🤣

Thanks Dave. Merry Christmas!

Brian is one of the best novels I’ve read in years.

Kiran, it’s out of print, but it’s possible @confingopublishing.bsky.social might have one or two slightly damaged copies that maybe they’d be happy to make available at a discount. I’ll ask (in case they don’t see this for a while).

dvd case with intentionally empty on a sticker

Opening a dvd case and finding you have something in common with it.

The term ‘aga saga’ caused Joanna Trollope ‘some irritation’, so @theguardian.com subs put it in obituary standfirst

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds; Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle; All Tomorrows by CM Kosemen; The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson; The Witching Hour by various authors

Lisa Tuttle has made my day. My week, in fact. Actually, probably my month @confingopublishing.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Good point.