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My 99th film recommendation on this site is ARCHIVE (2020) - a really interesting science-fiction film with an incredible aesthetic.

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My 99th film recommendation on this site is ARCHIVE (2020) - a really interesting science-fiction film with an incredible aesthetic.

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Talk about leaving it until the last minute... with less than 12 hours of the month remaining, here's the July story in my 12STORIES project.

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Last year, I wrote a post called A SENSE OF PERSPECTIVE about how our view of the world is affected by travelling.

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You can now buy eBook versions of my INFECTED BOOKS titles direct. They're the same as the versions you get elsewhere, but cheaper.

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Last week saw the 10th anniversary of AUTUMN: THE HUMAN CONDITION, a collection that brought together around forty AUTUMN short stories.

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WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING is a short and wonderful book about distance running and writing.

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Most people seemed to get the joke earlier in the week – that I wrote this month’s 12STORIES story about myself, and dressed it up as a distressing, crazed fan-related incident – but I think I loaded it with a few too many details for some folks, and quite a few people got in touch to ask if my family and I were okay.

I just wanted to set the record straight: though there are some elements of truth in my story AN APOLOGY, most of it is total fiction.

TRUE:

I did know someone called Gordon from Coventry – we worked together for a number of years and he was an all round good chapI did do an event in Coventry with Wayne Simmons which, by a freakish coincidence, took place exactly 10 years ago todayA close friend of mine did get married in Cornwall at short notice this month, and my wife and I (along with two of our daughters) did go along and made a short holiday of itI did have a fan track me down by using the WHOIS information on an old website (and I have marked everything private now) – he phoned to complain that I hadn’t released AUTUMN: DISINTEGRATION after promising it was coming for years. In the story, ‘Gordon’ had a similar, completely justifiable complaint to make about THE SPACES BETWEEN books, which are more than a decade overdue (but which I WILL write one day)July’s half-written 12STORIES entry really is going to be called CANNON FODDERThe EDEN PROJECT really is an incredible place, and it’s a prime location for a future story (photo added below as proof we were there).

FALSE:

Everything else!

I’m genuinely sorry if the story upset you. I was hoping the last few lines would give the game away, but I hadn’t counted on people not getting that far before they got worried and got in touch. On a very serious note, I’m really touched by your concern. AN APOLOGY went a little bit viral (by my standards) on Tuesday night, so thank you all for taking the time to read it.

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I’m really sorry. I couldn’t get a story written in time for June. I promised to post something every single month this year. I owe you an explanation.

Click here to read the rest of the 12STORIES project.

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The final column in my series of zombie-related writings is now available for your reading pleasure at THIS IS HORROR. I’ve written about the zombie genre at length – looking at how the genre has changed, and what (in my opinion) makes an undead tale worth reading. In this last article – HOLDING UP A (GRUBBY, BLOOD-STAINED) MIRROR – I look at why, after trying to quit the genre several times in the past, I keep coming back for more, and what it is about zombies that I find so fascinating/terrifying.

Thanks one last time to Michael and Bob for indulging my living dead-related ramblings.

You can find the previous columns at the following links:

IT’S 2023, NOT 2003 EVOLUTION OF THE DEAD ESCAPING THE HERD

And if you’re interested in my take on many of the zombie books and films I’ve referenced, please visit the ever-expanding RECOMMENDATIONS section of this site.

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