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Under Pleasant Trees: David Langford, Different Kinds of Darkness (2004)
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Entoil'd in woofed phantasies. Monday, 28 June 2010. David Langford, Different Kinds of Darkness (2004). Seeing as Dave Langford has won about a million Hugo Awards. One Of The The Three Best SF Short Story Writers Ever. Along With J. G. Ballard and John Sladek. That word "serious" is possibly relevant. Langford is (rightly) highly regarded for his comic writing, and the wit of his remarkably long-running (and free) newsletter Ansible; and although there is (at least) one laugh out loud moment. Logrollin...
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Under Pleasant Trees: The Ship of a Billion Years (2006)
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Entoil'd in woofed phantasies. Monday, 21 June 2010. The Ship of a Billion Years (2006). Well, this what we know. That I really should stop saying I'm going to do stuff "next" or "soon", as I always forget: galactic cycles ago, in February, I said some things about Coming to Dust. The first part of Lawrence Miles's. The True History of Faction Paradox. Audio series, as released by the stout fellows at. And said that "soon" I would say things about this. Oh well. Ship of a Billion Years. In the arc about ...
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Under Pleasant Trees: January 2011
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Entoil'd in woofed phantasies. Monday, 31 January 2011. Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001). What follows was prompted by this review. Film Le Pacte des Loups. By the writer and man Mark. To explain what I liked about it. Firstly it's because I think bits of this are best serious Sword and Sorcery film, ever. Though bits of the opening feel rather like a western, and despite my fondness for John Milius, the opening narration and initial scenes of violence are better done than in, say, Conan the Barbarian.
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Under Pleasant Trees: The Dark Knight
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Entoil'd in woofed phantasies. Friday, 19 February 2010. Although I'm very much a fan of the brothers. And an admirer of many superhero comics, I’m not, on the whole, a fan of superhero films (or at least, given that nowadays almost every one of them (even The Fantastic Four. At the risk of handing everyone who takes exception to anything that follows a stick to beat me with, I find an exception to this rule is. Which I really rather enjoyed and think oddly underrated; but I'd rather drink lager (ugh!
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Under Pleasant Trees: Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
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Entoil'd in woofed phantasies. Monday, 31 January 2011. Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001). What follows was prompted by this review. Film Le Pacte des Loups. By the writer and man Mark. To explain what I liked about it. Firstly it's because I think bits of this are best serious Sword and Sorcery film, ever. Though bits of the opening feel rather like a western, and despite my fondness for John Milius, the opening narration and initial scenes of violence are better done than in, say, Conan the Barbarian.
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Under Pleasant Trees: Tully Zetford, Hook: Star City (1974)
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Entoil'd in woofed phantasies. Thursday, 24 June 2010. Tully Zetford, Hook: Star City (1974). I have an unquenchable fondness for the sort of unpretentious (and short! Adventure sf and fantasy that used to be published, to coin that ghastly phrase, "back in the day." This means I also have an unquenchable fondness for the works of the late. Who wrote more or less a million such yarns, most famously of course the Burroughs-influenced Kregen. Dray Prescott sword-and-planet series. For the Hook series.
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Under Pleasant Trees: The Doctor's Wife (2011)
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Entoil'd in woofed phantasies. Tuesday, 17 May 2011. The Doctor's Wife (2011). The eleventh Doctor in the previous Tennant's control room (squee! Written by: Neil Gaiman. Directed by: Richard Clark. The general consensus all over the interwebs seems to be that this episode was a triumph, and one of the best episodes of Who. Ever As a Doctor Who. Isn't made for just me, that would clearly be disastrous.). Anyway, the thing about Doctor Who. And yet also being familiar with the the works of Lawrence Miles.
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Under Pleasant Trees: Coming To Dust (2005)
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Entoil'd in woofed phantasies. Monday, 22 February 2010. Coming To Dust (2005). Well, this is what we know. It seems odd to imagine it now, but there was a time when. Wasn’t on TV. After the series was cancelled in 1989, there appeared series of novels featuring first the. And then, following the Paul McGann TV movie, the. There was also (and continues to be) a series of Doctor Who audio plays produced by. Starring the previous actors who had played the Doctor.). The Adventuress of Henrietta Street.
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Under Pleasant Trees: Stieg Larsson, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2005)
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Entoil'd in woofed phantasies. Thursday, 3 February 2011. Stieg Larsson, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2005). OK, I know the original Man Som Hatar Kvinnor. Laudatory quotes from people who have forgotten more about writing in general and crime fiction in particular than I'll ever know, I wonder a bit whether somehow my copy was full of different words to theirs or something. Though reassuringly, I see, over at his splendid blog. Where he says this about TGwtDT:. Unlike Mr Blackmore, I was. And also, ...
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Under Pleasant Trees: March 2010
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Entoil'd in woofed phantasies. Saturday, 6 March 2010. Lionel Fanthorpe, Galaxy 666 (1968). Last Thursday was World Book Day. I learned of this via the medium of a note from my daughter’s school asking if she could bring in a couple of her favourite books. We searched through her shelves and found a soon-to-be-topical-again book about animals searching for Easter eggs, and an old favourite about. A bovine heribove with an acute upper respiratory tract infection. Yes, Galaxy 666. By the legendary and.
