Debatable Space

Some fabulous insights from Robert Jackson Bennett on how to write.

I just got tweeted this link for the most jaw-dropping photos I've seen in many a year.

You may have seen this already...Edgar Wright's tremendous tribute to the late, great Edward Woodward. He was wonderful in The Wicker Man, and many other things, but for me he will always be Callan...

I've finally succumbed and joined Twitter. (My username is Phil2Palmer.) Like all evil vices, it's addictive. I now know what Jack Yan is doing, I've heard Robert Grant's view on copyright law, and I'm aware that my friend David Bishop is prepping lunch - chicken with lemons...

I saw some highly entertaining cheesy SF novel covers over at i09....Of course, these things are always a matter of taste. There's no doubt that thisis utterly vile, while this makes a mockery of a major author's work. While this may be one of the vilest covers of all time...

Roland Emmerich has just announced his new movie project - a disaster movie in which THE ENTIRE DAMNED SOLAR SYSTEM falls to pieces, spectacularly, and only a handful of A List Hollywood actors survive, floating on a plank in empty space...

I just had a very nice email from a 'space artist' called Brian Smallwood, who has just read and loved Red Claw. Check out these amazing images on his website, here.

I had a delightful morning in Forbidden Planet earlier this week, signing copies of Red Claw. (They've sold quite a few, but there are still plenty left!) This shop really is nerd heaven, isn't it...

Here's a lovely short film, sent to me by one of my screenwriting students, which shows the perils of, er, living on a rectangle in the middle of space.

I've been meaning to write a blog about the A Space of Waste? debate I attended at Greenwich Observatory, as part of the Sci-Fi London event. It was a terrific night - we held the panel debate in the library of the new Observatory, a beautiful galleried room just under the dome...

The excellent Oktoberfest run by Sci-Fi London is in full swing at the moment. And I'll be taking part in a panel tonight at the Greenwich Observatory about the subject of space travel - do we need it? And should we write about it...

I've been following a very interesting debate on the Guardian books blog ...Damian G. Walter writes well and wittily about the state of SF, and how the ideas and (dare I use this pretentious word? Yes I'm using it!) tropes of science fiction have entered the mainstream...

I've just finished Stieg Larsson's marvellous crime thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...

One of the best movies out at the moment - nay, one of the best movies I've seen for many a year! - is the new Pixar animation, Up...