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Mirabilis - Year of Wonders: MailOnline fails the Turing Test
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Thursday, 28 May 2015. MailOnline fails the Turing Test. The best of humanity are characterized by an open mind, insatiable curiosity, and a youthful - indeed, childlike - sense of wonder and delight. For these qualities, few surpass Lord Rees, the Astronomer Royal. If you get a chance to hear him talk, don't miss it. I was lucky enough to attend his lecture on "Real and Counterfactual Universes". A few years ago and the experience was like having a new section of my brain switched on. First, this isn't ...
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Mirabilis - Year of Wonders: September 2013
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Saturday, 28 September 2013. I'm ready for my close-up, Mr DeMille. The only way that regular movie-making has the edge is in the editing. In comics, since every scene change should ideally come at the end of a page, or anyway at the end of a tier of panels, it's the very devil if you suddenly decide you need to slot something else in. Does work the occasional miracle at the colouring stage when Leo and I have overlooked something. Saturday, September 28, 2013. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Android, iOS an...
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Mirabilis - Year of Wonders: Loud & clear - but case not proven
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Tuesday, 26 May 2015. Loud and clear - but case not proven. I see a lot about “show don’t tell”. On the Internet. Suddenly everybody has writing advice to offer, and the trouble is that most of it is wrong. Here’s an example of would-be show-not-tell from Age of Ultron. A movie that I’ve already been thoroughly unkind about. But its carcass is still twitching and my blood is up, so here goes. Spoilers ahead, by the way. You know the scene I really liked? Now then. The Vision gives Thor his hammer bac...
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Mirabilis - Year of Wonders: January 2015
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Friday, 23 January 2015. Gotta kiss a lot of frogs. 8216;We need a writer for an animated TV show. It’s from a concept by Viv Stanshall – ’. I was off like a shot. Viv Stanshall? Do Not Adjust Your Set. And Cumberpatch the gardener – not to mention Old Scrotum the wrinkled retainer. Work on something cooked up in that great rambling, fecund greenhouse of a mind? But dammit, I don’t call any of my characters Stoke Poges, do I? I had to explain I’m not qualified to administer the Last Rites. So I was famil...
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Mirabilis - Year of Wonders: August 2014
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No posts. Show all posts. No posts. Show all posts. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Pearls That Were His Eyes (season 2.1). First issue of Mirabilis season two: Spring. Mirabilis on Kindle USA. Mirabilis on Kindle UK. Mirabilis on the NOOK. Welcome to the Year of Wonders. The dawn of a new century. A green comet appears in the sky, heralding a miraculous year when imagination and reality merge. Dave Morris, Leo Hartas and Martin McKenna, creators of. Now available on iPad. And in trade paperback on Amazon.
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Mirabilis - Year of Wonders: Old soldiers never die
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Wednesday, 3 June 2015. Old soldiers never die. In 1827, a terrible secret that has long stayed hidden is finally unearthed. The life-generating techniques discovered by Victor Frankenstein are seized by the radical Zeroiste faction, who raise an army of lazarans - resurrected men assembled from the bodies of the dead. As the tide of this unstoppable force sweeps across Europe, lives will be changed forever. This is the gamebook I've wanted to do for over a decade - in fact, since the days that Martin.
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Mirabilis - Year of Wonders: August 2013
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Sunday, 25 August 2013. Justice from on high. With news today of a Gigeresque alien gargoyle on Paisley Abbey. This seems like a good excuse to feature another letter to the Royal Mythological Society. I would be loath to banish the gargoyles, as they are a venerable part of the church’s history, but pray tell me, sirs: whatever can be done to rein in the excesses of these zealous creatures? The Reverend Père Blanchard,. St Julien de Brioude,. A firm hand is what’s needed. Climb up there and bi...Perhaps...
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Mirabilis - Year of Wonders: Original Hartas artwork to own!
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Monday, 1 June 2015. Original Hartas artwork to own! Maybe you don't know the wight in question personally, but the artist will be familiar if you've read Mirabilis. It's actually one of the very first illustrations that Leo drew for a gamebook called The Crypt of the Vampire. Which was the first book that either of us worked on. It was a long time ago and the clocks were striking thirteen, and that's all I'm going to say, but here's the full story. Yep Leo Hartas. Original. Artwork. You choose which one...
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Mirabilis - Year of Wonders: December 2014
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Tuesday, 23 December 2014. Five times five stars. Not wanting to plunge into the intercalary days with a snotty review headlining the blog (see how superstitious I am for a rationalist? I am reposting my Goodreads 5-star reviews for the year. Have a happy Christmas, Yule, or whatever, and I'll see you on the other side. How did it take me so long to discover Capote? It is, in short, a masterpiece. Normally I reserve 5 stars for books that I feel affect me profoundly and permanently - that "change my ...
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Mirabilis - Year of Wonders: April 2015
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Wednesday, 29 April 2015. Shoulda left it to the robots. You might find this review of Interstellar. A bit spoilery. But at least it's over faster than the movie. So, the Earth is dying because they can't figure out to use hydroponics. And Cowboy Farmer finds mysterious symbols in his ramshackle old house (= Signs. And he says, "It's not a ghost. It's gravity." Though why shouldn't that mean a ghost? And he looks at a bunch of numbers in binary and he doesn't say, "WTF are these numbers? OK, so off into ...
