Scribblings
Idle pen scratchings (before the website!)
For the sake of posterity, and nothing to do with vanity at all – oh no! – here are a few of my scribblings.
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“That’s Science Fiction!” (1984)
It is probably futile to try to define sf to the satisfaction of all people. To find evidence for this, it is only necessary to look on page 256 of Jakubowski & Edwards’s The Complete Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy Lists… |
fragment (1993)
Fabergé. The beams of Kane’s helmet light and flashlight cut through the mist and shadow like lines of scar-tissue running across a bruise. He watched the nearest egg. It seemed to be soft, leathery, and translucent like a crocodile’s… |
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“Wherefore is Fantasy?” (1993)
Interzone 60 (June 1992) was a special “fantasy issue”. In “Interface” in that issue, David Pringle posed the question,“… is there any real demand for short fantasy fiction, and in particular for light upbeat material of a fantasy sort?” … |
“The White Prince Goes Forth” (1993)
He hung in an enfolding darkness pierced with ten thousand hard points of light scintillant with diamond fire. ¶ He thought, perhaps, that they numbered as many as those whose souls he had stolen to sustain his own debilitated body. … |
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“Understanding Bryan Appleyard” (1994)
In “Books Received” in iz80, in the entry for Bryan Appleyard’s The First Church of the New Millennium, that author’s earlier book, Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man, was glibly described as… |
“Heart of Fire” (1994)
The wind tore at the lone traveller’s white robe, bitterly cold, as sharp as the talons of Scatha the Worm of old. However, it bore neither snow nor hail, nor did any ice rime the stones underfoot, for here within the bowl of Ered Engrin… |
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“Supernovae” (1981)
An observer watching the night sky with the unaided eye is presented with what seems to be a spectacle of unequalled serenity and changelessness. Indeed, the vast majority of the (so-called) “fixed” stars are extremely stable, … |
“Cryptography” (2000)
This note addresses two major questions “What is cryptography?” and, in particular, “Why is cryptography important”? ¶ Cryptography has moved to the centre of information security due to a convergence of major changes. … |
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“Algol: β Persei” (1982)
Algol (β Persei; RA 03h 04.9m, Dec: +40° 46') is the second brightest star in the constellation of Perseus and is the prototype eclipsing binary. However, it is more than a double star. At times as many as five components have been suggested … |
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