Love’s Great Adventure Music Playlist – Science Fiction
A Love's Great Adventure Music Playlist - Science Fiction. Songs from artists with stars in their eyes and space travel on their minds!
Sound of Freedom – a reminder of what lurks beneath
The movie Sound of Freedom needs seeing because sometimes we need reminding of what lurks beneath the comfortable lives we lead.
Why would you insult your own readers?
It's not a good look for a writer to lambaste the work of a literary giant and put down vast swathes of their own potential audience.
Margot Robbie’s Barbie movie – a thought-provoking surprise
I went to see Margot Robbie’s Barbie movie on the weekend and was surprised. I was expecting a light comedy with a ‘girl power’ message. What I got was also a thought-provoking movie with an overarching message that was completely unexpected.
Book piracy and AI – the new ‘catfishing’?
AI developers are being accused of book piracy in a lawsuit by Sarah Silverman. Will artificial intelligence become the new 'catfishing'?
The march of AI – human readers deserve human writers
Headlines about US actors striking for more money over AI bury mention of a more important strike by the Screenwriters Guild.
Reading Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca in French
I'm re-learning French and recently received a French translation of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Picnic at Hanging Rock is regarded as one of the best Australian fiction novels ever. Written by Joan Lindsay, it was published in 1967.