The Arts have been suffering under our marvellous Coalition government for a long time. Until now, literature copped the biggest hiding, but now, small companies in other sectors are joining us and we really don’t want company in starving in … Continue reading
By Phyllis Irene Radford This is a republication of an older blog series. Since these first posted in 2012 I have combine all the posts into a Book View Cafe edition “Magna Bloody Carta” https://bookviewcafe.com/bookstore/book/magna-bloody-carta/ I have also published through … Continue reading
At FOGcon last week, a group of us did a panel rooted in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed that discussed what kind of economic systems might develop in the future. We did a good job of scratching the surface … Continue reading
We were all so sane and calm and efficient until now. An exemplary people doing amazing things in a terribly trying time. My friend Conor, who visited his parents for Christmas and spent the early part of the year defending … Continue reading
Today’s blog subject has the potential of shunting me off on many tangents because my “flight of ideas” disorder, (recognized to following generations as “attention deficit disorder”) often compels me to explore all the forks in the roads. I will … Continue reading
There are some very big subjects that our lives centre around right now in Australia. I don’t want to talk about them. They’re full of difficulty and emotion and… it’s exhausting even thinking about them, to be honest. I can’t … Continue reading
Tomorrow is November 5. This is one of those statements that look simple but contain multiplicities of meaning. I asked friends on Facebook what they thought of the date and I was fascinated by how many ways there were of … Continue reading
On the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz were discussing Arthur C. Clarke’s third law, the one about any sufficiently advanced science being indistinguishable from magic. They were frustrated with the way some interpretations of … Continue reading
Welcome to 5780. May it be a good and sweet year. Australia has been there for a day already and tested the waters, so check our news to find out what the early part of the year is like. Jewish … Continue reading
Once in a while I find out I’ve missed something important in the book world, some classic that’s been out forever that I somehow never noticed when it was first published, something that turns out to be wonderful. Then once in a very great while I find something I wish I’d read thirty years before it was ever published.
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