Movie Review Should I spend even time on describing this? I actually like the cast, but the aliens are plastic / rubber-suits, and the movie...

Book Review I got this one bundled together with Marion Zimmer Bradley's Seven from the Stars in an Ace double. I did read this one b...

Writing Tom Gauld knows it all. -  His homepage - Cartoons on The Guardian Read more...

Movie Review This is one of those movies that I know  I should enjoy, and still I found myself fast forwarding the latter half. That's.....

Book Review Starts like a pulp action story. Stays that way most of the time. Ends a bit too easily. In general I would call it 'Keith...

Movie Review I  know  he does it for the money, but Bruce,  please ... You can do better. So, what do we have here? A simple Scifi / Horror ...

Wallpaper I have nothing to add... (Click on the image to enlarge.) More wallpapers...

Book Review More old stuff dating back to the golden era, this is the second part of an Ace 'Double', a pocket containing two nove...

Audiobook Review I love my cheap, macho military / action / adventure SF. And because dumb books are easy to digest whilst doing something e...

Audiobook Review Let's start with the verdict... Though it's a four book series, the first two are a very decent two-book set. And a...

Audiobook Review There's a whole subset of romance novels in fantasy settings, which all seem to follow a certain pattern. This is one o...

Wallpaper I edited one of the images I found on https://www.collectedcurios.com/ and modified it a bit to make it a better wallpaper. Lunch...

Audiobook Review If you like romance and  fantasy, Helen Harper must be somewhere on your bookshelf. Nevertheless, she does  write light, bu...

Audiobook Review An interesting premise (five million kids were sold into slavery to protect earth) takes an interesting route (let's ge...

Audiobook Review Military SF is a guilty pleasure of mine. Let's read another one... Today, that's  Confrontation  by Nathan Hystad....

Anime Review Yeah, I know. Lot's of old anime lately. Hyperpolice . Starts of as a comedy, but does introduce some more moral points o...

Wallpaper. It's summer, and life and work are changing yet again. The future is... unclear. It's a good thing I'm not the only o...

Audiobook Review. Strange... I'm pretty sure I've read some of his work, but I cannot recall a single title. Oh well... I had totall...

Series Review. Amanda Tapping takes care of 'abnormals'. Innocent young man ends up protecting supernatural beings. Some evil machin...

Writing  +  Reference (This is a follow up to  Book And Chapter Sizes ) Do you need chapters, and is chapter size related to reading speed? ...

Series Review. I never saw all episodes of B5 thus far, so I'm watching them now. (But I realise that I saw quite a few, to be honest.)...

Writing. Why and how I keep track of events in my own stories... no matter how bad they are 😁 This is a sequel to The Retro Plotter part 1 ...

Writing  +  Reference Plotters plot, pantsers invent on the spot. I'm a bit in between. Yes, I plot a bit, but I also make up things as ...

Windows 10. Symptom 1: WOL tools no longer work after installing VirtualBox. Symptom 2: SqueezePlay no longer works but SqueezeLiteX does. S...

Series Review. Continuum  wrapped up. It could have used a few more episodes, but this was all they got. So, what do we have here? Time trav...

Column. One of the more curious side effects of this whole Corona mess is a loss of sense of time. We've been locked in our homes, stuck...

Writing  +  Reference Solve prompts for short stories, work out mini-plots for your chapters, avoid (stupid) mistakes, and expand your chapt...

Writing. You can turn any 'prompt' into a short story, and it's worth doing so. At least to try to, now and again. All it needs ...

Series Review Shadow and Bone is a fantasy series on Netflix, with shades of The Witcher, Game of Thrones, Shanara, and every other fantasy...

Wallpaper In May 2010 I visited Japan. I love that place. Summer started early that year, and the cherry blossom was (mostly) finished by th...

Anime Review Some anime series can get rather complex... And some of those series made it to NetFlix. I haven't seen the following (yet)...

Series Review. Looks promising. Regular 'government's hiding stuff we have visitors with their own agenda' show. I've only s...

Writing. ... congratulations! Indeed, Wattpad is a serious problem 😁 Yeah, I know, I'm just jealous of those very successful authors ...

Movie Review + Book Review Jumper  (the 2008 movie) could have been the start of a great franchise, even if it had little to do with the bo...

Writing  + Formula 1 As I said before , if you suffer from writer's block then write some bad poetry. Coincidentally, the new F1 🏎️ sea...

Writing. How would you write a (short) story based on the following plot? ' A clubber who wants to damage a diabolical, holy symbol, but...

Movie Review Push and Jumper... In case I did not mention these two before (where are my old TellTales , humpf)... I think both movies deser...

Datatalk / Printing. How important is the quality of the paper in your laser / inkjet? Perhaps more important than you think. However, I...

Movie Review Is there anything better than the original (?) animated Disney movie? Perhaps not... Still, Tim Burton did a pretty good job ba...

Wallpaper. There is one person missing in this image. The  artist.  The  author . Writing is hard. It's toiling away in a corner of the ...

Writing. I've created another website / blog account to handle everything related to the novel I'm working on. Update. It's 2023...

Writing  +  Reference Vivien Reis suggests to remove 29-ish words from your novel (if possible, of course 😁). Blindly  stripping them out i...

Writing. I finally settled on a cover and a pen name. So now both my writing related websites are up-to-date. Unfortunately I haven't re...

Anime Review You'd be tempted to think I watch loads of anime... but I don't. These are old reviews I wrote over the years, most for...

Column / Writing. Do you remember good ol' typewriters? Man, the horror! 😣😂 I don't think there's anyone  who has good memorie...

Datatalk. The Xara Designer Pro software package is quite nice, and capable of incredible things. It never got the traction it deserved, and...

Movie Review Wanna' see something incredibly old? (No, it's not a picture of me 😄) Here's a very  old Fantasy / Supernatural / ...

Writing  +  Reference The optimal chapter size is driven by your audience and publication platform. The size of the book is just all those c...

Anime Review Revisiting the past... ever heard of Ranma 1/2? Boy meets girl, which appears to be just another fiancée. Credits to daddy. Gir...

Wallpaper. We had -17º degrees a few days ago... as in one real week of winter. I wonder if we'll ever see it again with all that global...