tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54872252024-03-14T08:53:10.499+00:00re:mote voices<img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3104/3215754253_a4d151874c_q_d.jpg" height="60idth=60" valign="top" align="left" border="0">this is the voice of re:mote induction.<br>
giving voice to the remote words.<br>
the tracking camera shot of a remote generation. <br><br>remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.comBlogger1432125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-33701447817192202232024-01-02T18:19:00.000+00:002024-01-02T18:19:11.784+00:00A Loss of Direction (There is something in the way)I love to read. I love to talk about reading. Sharing what I read over the year, keeping note of it with my wee lists every year.
But at the end of 2022 I somewhat lost my way. Someone posted into my timeline that people who boasted about how much they read was problematic, and an attack on folk who don't read as much. Which is, clearly, fucking stupid. They may have had a point, in their own remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-38422302966605337222024-01-02T15:44:00.001+00:002024-01-02T15:44:37.984+00:00Do you still hear remote voices. A return, a New Year. 2024.Hello world. This is the voice of remote. 2024. We will endeavour to resume broadcasting.
Our last post was 2017. The rise and fall of social medias and so many other things. Years of weird and isolation. We need to find ways through and back, to connect and converse. To share and embrace.
So, 2024. Let us see what we can do.
During the pandemic years writing was hard. In 2023 I wrote 3 remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-58508600633171087732017-04-06T20:33:00.000+00:002017-04-06T20:33:02.168+00:00Short Stories - March 2017
Short stories read/listened to in March:The Wind Shall Blow - Gregory Norman Bossert - www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/audio/bcs-183-the-wind-shall-blow/The Greenest Gecko - Ploy Pirapokin @ - www.tor.com/2017/02/01/the-greenest-gecko/The Peacock Cloak - Chris Beckett - clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_10_15f/So Much Cooking - Naomi Kritzer @ - So Much Cooking - Naomi Kritzer Mika Model - Paolo remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-86435489364847481942017-03-01T19:38:00.001+00:002017-03-01T19:38:26.692+00:00Short Story Reading - February 2017
Another month of short story reading, feels as though on some level I'm deliberately reading more shorts because I'm tracking what I'm reading. But I always do go through phases - I've been picking at a couple of year's best anthologies, and not necessarily most recent editions thereof. And been listening to more fiction podcasts. Ideally I would provide links and comments each month to provideremotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-16268233290597874612017-02-02T23:07:00.000+00:002017-02-02T23:07:06.423+00:00Short Story Reading - January 2017
I have had the intent of keeping track of what short fiction I read for a while, the last time I tried I failed quickly. Ideally I'd add commentary and links, particularly as some of these pieces were very good and should absolutely be read. That'll maybe follow. For the moment I'm sharing to at least get a ball rolling.
[ ] An Eligible Boy - a Iain McDonald *[ ] Goddess, Worm - remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-60750141649303783142016-10-10T11:20:00.001+00:002016-10-10T11:20:24.226+00:00My next work in progress?I love weird twitter, the unpredictable, the absurd, the way that so many single tweets can feel like stories I want to read/write.
ourmagickfuture (Magick at Scale)
Witch Scientist Publishes Manifesto for Expressive Occult Music
5:14 AM Oct 10th via Smidgeo Posteo https://twitter.com/ourmagickfuture/status/785332539632283648
remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-22729644340557873152016-10-08T18:48:00.001+00:002016-10-08T18:48:58.349+00:00The Witch At The End Of The World: Spook Riders
My story The Witch At The End Of The World (currently available in Thirty Years Of Rain), like so much of what I write is influenced by music. In this case the characters sing as they travel. Suicide's "Ghost Rider" is one of the tracks they sing, it felt right, the idea of these riders traveling through the land of the dead. The living haunt the dead lands, the end of the world. During the remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-77551762148589459102016-09-30T10:59:00.001+00:002016-09-30T10:59:45.516+00:00Book Launch #30YoRWell, tonight is the big night. The Glasgow launch of Thirty Years Of Rain, the 30th anniversary collection of work by members of the Glasgow Science Fiction Writer's Circle. A cross genre collection of stories and poems, old and new.
The book is already available from Lulu and Amazon. But in the Sauchiehall St branch of Waterstones tonight, from 7pm, there will be a chance to hear readings and remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-32753577441544620052016-08-30T19:00:00.000+00:002016-08-30T19:12:23.590+00:00On Writing "The Witch At The End Of The World"
[I came across the above image after completing the final version of The Witch At The End Of The World, for me this captures some sense of what I was thinking of, this looks like it could easily be one of my apocalyptic witches. The image is by costume designer Agnieszka Osipa]
Writing can be difficult. Many writers will tell you so. And there are so many ways to self-defeat, block and remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-68216223471115150912016-08-29T20:23:00.001+00:002016-08-29T20:25:52.324+00:00THIRTY YEARS OF RAIN
THIRTY YEARS OF RAIN - CELEBRATING THIRTY YEARS OF THE GLASGOW SCIENCE FICTION WRITER'S CIRCLE.
September will see the publication of Thirty Years Of Rain a collection of short stories and poems by writers who have at some point over the last 30 years been members of the GSFWC.
The collection includes my own story The Witch At The End Of The World. A cheerful, uplifting story remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-80390912250745144042016-04-16T12:05:00.002+00:002016-04-16T12:05:26.654+00:00In Search of Cultural Vistas
Written earlier in the week, but only just posting now:
I was
struck last night by an increasing occurrence. Where you see an
amusing little nugget on twitter and you smile in an appropriate
manner. Then a day, or two, later, you see the same thing again. And
again. Then you see that same little nugget being picked up by both
Boing Boing and Jezebel, and being passed off as a cutting remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-69591292097385396962016-04-13T13:00:00.001+00:002016-04-13T13:00:39.833+00:00Ancillary's Children I am reading Alastair Reynolds "Steel Breeze" with my lunch. The lead character is Chiku. But Chiku is not just Chiku. She cloned herself and replicated her memory. In the scene I just read the narrative has slipped, without warning from one Chiku to another Chiku. Even the character takes a moment to get her head round that. The preceding chapters being the memories of a counterpart taken into remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-69633408932449613542016-04-12T17:40:00.002+00:002016-04-12T17:40:56.890+00:00Dans Le Silence
Brume & Telepherique – Dans Le Silence / Schrei Nach Stille - This double LP was released in 1999, each artist building their tracks from source material provided by the other. It was released on the unprolific German label Duebel (who were related to some extent to the Ant-Zen label), they have a small run of releases, mostly limited editions, no doubt difficult to find. I haveremotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-81429249469568591032016-01-14T00:06:00.000+00:002016-01-14T00:06:30.672+00:002015 Reading Summary
Summary of what I read in 2015, "*" denotes a re-read.
Graphic novels have been noted sporadically, read many more of those, but didn't always remember to include in list.
january---------the collector - sergi toppithe mighty avengers vol 2 - family bonding - al ewing + valerio schitisaga vol 4 - brian k vaughan + fiona staplesmanhattan projects vol 4- hickmann + pitarramanhattan projects vol remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-52756330713197331962016-01-13T23:59:00.001+00:002016-01-13T23:59:45.668+00:002015 Film Summary
The films I saw in 2015, broken down by month, with "*" denoting a repeat viewing:
january---------exodusbirdmannight at the museum - secret of the tombmockingjay part 1wildtaken 3ex machinakingsmenfebruary--------big hero sixjupiter ascendentinherent vicelove is strangewild talesproject almanacshaun the sheepblackhatkingsmen*march-------thor 2*sin city 2the second best exotic marigold hotelit remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-90517337697169746262014-07-09T11:24:00.001+00:002014-07-09T11:24:12.721+00:00The Apartment The Apartment by Greg Baxter was a spontaneous purchase. The joys of book shops. Wandering the store. Exploring new releases. Nice cover. Curious title. Read the 1st page. Sometimes a complete stranger will speak to you. Just the way the words fall together. And you'll buy something you didn't know  previously existed.
This is how I picked up The Apartment. A newly released hardback, at theremotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-83853316400174281222014-04-21T23:15:00.000+00:002014-04-22T22:42:27.325+00:00Fiction Summary-Notes April 2014Here is a periodic and updated summary of my fiction online:
Jack Move
Spirit Guide Plays Guitar
Mythaxis
Issue 12: The Temple of the Inevitable
Issue 7: Blood & Souls
Issue 4: 1. Survivor
Issue 5: 2. No Survivor
Issue 3: When Gretchen Met Sally
Issue 2: Red Fever
Perhaps worth noting, one of my works in progress is a sequel to No/Survivor...
Telling of Tales: Podcast
The Gods Are Small Birds
remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-6634518852673878862014-03-22T14:36:00.001+00:002014-03-22T14:36:30.666+00:00cosmo_moda_dec27144cosmo_moda_dec27144, a photo by Cihan Alpgiray on Flickr.remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-2020964938563511762014-03-21T19:42:00.001+00:002014-03-21T19:42:29.818+00:00"The Tree" limited edition print"The Tree" limited edition print, a photo by Aron Wiesenfeld on Flickr.Available at aron-wiesenfeld.squarespace.com/available/ at 11AM PST, March 21stremotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-23791861778711792372014-03-03T21:06:00.001+00:002014-03-03T21:06:40.095+00:00It's No Easier, On The Other SideIt's No Easier, On The Other Side, a photo by TroyStith on Flickr.remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-22168170680154474612014-03-02T19:55:00.001+00:002014-03-02T19:55:59.047+00:00Alice Pasquini - BarcelonaAlice Pasquini - Barcelona, a photo by AliCè on Flickr.remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-56474244901170095232014-02-27T20:17:00.001+00:002014-02-27T20:17:06.154+00:00Snow DaySnow Day, a photo by The Searcher on Flickr."Nothing fancy, just a quick sketch from a childhood memory.Childhood was sometimes odd."-The Searcherremotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-84008126555470515952014-02-22T13:08:00.001+00:002014-02-22T13:08:09.423+00:00Inside Liz Brizzi's studio as she prepares for 'Adrift' this April at
ThinkspaceInside Liz Brizzi's studio as she prepares for 'Adrift' this April at Thinkspace, a photo by thinkspace_gallery on Flickr.remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-3832489880623344422014-02-17T21:11:00.001+00:002014-02-17T21:11:59.243+00:00Field of Light 06Field of Light 06, a photo by byronv2 on Flickr.remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5487225.post-82372544029967842112014-02-17T20:44:00.001+00:002014-02-17T20:44:12.543+00:00_S8Q5428_S8Q5428, a photo by orangeduck1207 on Flickr.remotepushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115999605700091280noreply@blogger.com0