Lots of excellent endings in last week’s poll. Thanks, everyone. I had a blast reading through the nominations. I got to hear the ending to Ulysses (without having to read the book — thanks, Wendy ! And great ending, too). I found myself in complete agreement with Stephen Dedman about the excellence of the ending for Casablanca, & I was reminded of the cheeky ending for the original Italian Job...

All photos taken by Cat Sparks, here is evidence I was at Conflux 6: chrisbarnes , deborahb and I at the mass book signing, deborahb signed a few copies and we mostly misbehaved: Opposite us, on the other side of the room, Rob Hood was sitting with Alan Baxter at a table signing their books and I heard Rob pull his schoolteacher voice on someone! It was the very...

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Via cassiphone The bowel cancer drug Avastin is among those to be added to the list of subsidised drugs under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). This was the drug that the SF community raised almost $30 000 for paulhaines so that he could have more ammunition when he pulled out the big guns and went fighting. Seeing how important this was to him and his family so that he...

For paulhaines , who called it first : The Curious Case of Forrest Gump - watch more funny videos So damn obvious now, although it doesn't explain why I loved the Benjamin Button movie but never could stand Forrest Gump. Maybe the Cate Blanchett/Tilda Swinton factor has something to do with it ... because I would sit through almost anything to watch either of those ladies do what...

ellen_datlow  posts today about Edgar Allan Poe's birthday. I received my copy of "Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe" before Christmas, and I'm loving it. Partly because it feeds into my love of the man and his writing; all the authors were inspired by one or more of his stories, and all have interpreted this inspiration into story. The cover is dark and creepy, with a beady...

Some months back, I bid for and got myself a copy of paulhaines 's collection from Prime Books, Doorways for the Dispossessed , during the amazing Art That Scares You online auction. It was really the main thing I wanted, so I was chuffed as hell to have gotten it. And, ever since, it's sat on my to-read pile gathering dust. Until now. I thought I'd read some of Paul's stories, but I seem...