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Steampunk Opera

By Jonahh | Published: 17 July 2010
“And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.” The Golden Journey to Samarkand, James Elroy Flecker Sooner or later we will see a movie that is based on or at least inspired by an Alastair Reynolds novel, and it is rather remarkable no filmmaker has picked up one of his stories yet. Though [...]
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Look And See

By Jonahh | Published: 16 January 2010
A photographer is not a painter is not a photographer… though both are creating the same thing: images. If you’ve ever done both, even at the same time, you might have experienced the difference just the same way as Freeman puts it: “…while a painting is built up from nothing, out of perception and imagination, [...]
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Love After The Nanocaust

By Jonahh | Published: 5 January 2010
Play it again, Sam… If you’ve seen Casablanca and heard As Time Goes By, you’re ready for the future; Alastair Reynolds’ future, that is. His 2004 novel Century Rain is a post-apocalyptic love story in a science-fiction-murder-mystery setting. Wanting to leave their places but being trapped, the main characters compromise just about everything they care for, but not necessarily in the bad sense of the word… Frankly, what else are you supposed to do when you realise that your whole existence is a hoax?
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