Paul Farquhar's latest activity

I kind of feel that setting out to do “hard” SF is like handing everyone in the audience a baseball bat and asking them to hit you with it.

They are certainly aping the covers, although I think they may lean into parody. According to my source, the setting is called...

Campion is pretty usual in that he straddles the line between the Murder Mystery and Pulp Action Hero genres.

Lately, the critics have maneuvered round that line by retconning Tolkien as a "First World War Poet".

We need to track them down and give them a prize. Or, if they are a WotC employee, arrest them for fraud.

News just in: it looks like the October thing isn’t postponed or cancelled, but nor is it what we thought: it’s a Stranger Things tie-in...

And this has been a fault of the rebooted series from the start. Everything is rushed and paper-thin. Wasn't the case for the classic...

There’s not much point in being able to go anywhere in time and space if you don’t learn anything about the places you visit. Murderbot...

Do you have any evidence to support that? Because I think it had more to do with streamed games and covid. I saw plenty of copies...

I think Doctor Who would benefit from someone who is less of an auteur and more of a workman. I watched Murderbot, and felt "this is...

As someone who enjoyed the groundedness of the Karl Urban version, I'm rather dreading this, as I suspect Taika will lean into the...

I am now even more convinced than ever that the "horror theme" was a deliberate red herring. Consider hexblade. This was originally an...

It could be a Multiversal "Everything"-book, with chapters for different worlds with different themes - it's true that the UAs have been...

I think the Horror stuff wasn't for the October book at thisnpoont: think they really are working on a new Everything book.

Yeah, it looks unlikely at this point. We'd have to be ordering it in the next month or so, and they usually give us the deets before...