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Interests: Books, comics, movies, television shows, pop songs, apocalypses, vegetables, non-fiction, awesome maps, fanfiction, pies, much more

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Fiction: 'Underground' by Archie Black

Turn out the lights, go to sleep. Boxing Day. New Year's Eve. Work. She'd be back at work again before long - less than a week. Continue reading

Posted Mar 28, 2018 at Pornokitsch

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Zach Galligan is coming to save us.

Monsters cheat, and so must we. Continue reading

Posted Mar 27, 2018 at Pornokitsch

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Fiction: 'Four Imaginary Reviews' by Adam Roberts

Why, the reader wonders, is everybody in such a frantic hurry all of a sudden? It really does make you reconsider the larger scale of human history. Continue reading

Posted Mar 26, 2018 at Pornokitsch

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Fiction: '01001001 01000011 01000101' by Robert Sharp

The book was big and heavy, which meant it would burn well. Continue reading

Posted Mar 23, 2018 at Pornokitsch

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Ban Fiction: 'Is This to Be a Psychopath Test?' by Mazin Saleem

"What would you say is the function of humans?" Continue reading

Posted Mar 15, 2018 at Pornokitsch

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The Ides of March!

Stabby stab stabby stab stab. Continue reading

Posted Mar 15, 2018 at Pornokitsch

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Non-Fiction: 'A Day on the Moon' by James Naysmyth and James Carpenter (1874)

"The sun’s intrinsic brilliancy is undiminished, its apparent distance is shortened, and it gleams out in fierce splendour only to be realised, and then imperfectly, by the conception of a gigantic electric light a few feet from the eye." Continue reading

Posted Mar 13, 2018 at Pornokitsch

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Fiction: 'The Second Bullet' by Anna Katharine Green

In dismissing a guest, Miss Strange was invariably the society belle and that only. This he had come to recognize. Continue reading

Posted Mar 6, 2018 at Pornokitsch

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Non-Fiction: 'Money in Literature' by Page Fox (1900)

"There are a vast number of persons who have wild, harrowing tales. In fact, the audience for such stories is larger than the number of readers of the finer quality of literature." Continue reading

Posted Feb 28, 2018 at Pornokitsch

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1Q84: A Very Bad Book

it’s one thing to subordinate plot for mood over a few hundred pages, quite another to waste a million-odd words in such a fashion Continue reading

Posted Feb 27, 2018 at Pornokitsch

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Ban Fiction: 'Then Somebody Bends' by Mazin Saleem

The older woman called the younger Beauty. “I hope you don’t mind. A class thing. Though also the nickname I give to anyone who loves themselves, true loves themselves.” Continue reading

Posted Feb 22, 2018 at Pornokitsch

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'Things flowing and melding together': An interview with EJ Swift and Joey Hi-Fi

"Inevitably with time travel where events change, there’s a point where accuracy goes out the window." Continue reading

Posted Feb 8, 2018 at Pornokitsch

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Fiction: 'Paris Adrift' (Extract) by E.J. Swift

In all the centuries she visited, she never failed to be amazed by humanity’s capacity for destruction. Continue reading

Posted Feb 5, 2018 at Pornokitsch

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Non-Fiction: 'What Men Read in Hospitals' by Miriam E. Carey (1918)

The state of a man's mind - whether he is worried about his family or merely homesick - will influence his choice of books. He may have to be coaxed before he will take the trouble to read. Continue reading

Posted Jan 25, 2018 at Pornokitsch

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'I wish I could've been in Alien': An interview with Mark Hamill (1980)

"I think [Empire is] a gamble because people may be expecting the same kind of phenomenon that he had with the first one." Continue reading

Posted Dec 22, 2017 at Pornokitsch

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Ban Fiction: 'The Empire Cashes Back' by Mazin Saleem

You’ve questioned our spending over - forget the last quarter - the last four decades. Implied, a question of priorities. You’ve stated, with I detect some polite horror, that the first station cost 10 trillion, or ‘thereabouts’ Continue reading

Posted Dec 13, 2017 at Pornokitsch

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Fiction: 'Alf' by Mazin Saleem

The ship was running out of crew with which to correct the world. Continue reading

Posted Dec 5, 2017 at Pornokitsch

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A Matter of Oaths: An interview with Helen S. Wright

I was living in London, and my friends were a very diverse group of people – different ages, different sexualities, Black British, Asian and white. How could I write a novel that airbrushed those people out? Continue reading

Posted Dec 1, 2017 at Pornokitsch

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If/Then: The 2017 Pornokitsch Gifting Guide

From mushroom jerky to space opera, a few gifts for the loved ones in your life (or yourself). Continue reading

Posted Nov 22, 2017 at Pornokitsch

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From Christie to Bolaño: Adam Roberts' Five Favourite Puzzle Whodunits

A puzzle is a trivial thing: a crossword clue, a sudoku. But trivia, counter-intuitively enough, is often the best idiom in which to address the biggest questions. Continue reading

Posted Nov 14, 2017 at Pornokitsch

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Fiction: 'Jade City' (Extract) by Fonda Lee