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Shadow Writer: Paul Kane

Hello, 2018, sorry I’ve been slow – been having a bit of a nap. But almost awake now, so let’s get to it.

I thought we’d start the year with an interview with the lovely Mr Paul
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The Darwath Drive-by: Barbara Hambly

Barbara Hambly writes across fantasy, science fiction and historical fiction. She has an MA in Medieval History. Her world-building capabilities are enviable and to call her prolific is to understate things just a little. Her series, to date,
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Conversation and the Nerd Crown

In the office this afternoon, I won the Nerd Crown.

Angela to Aimée, whose boyfriend has just made a super-geeky-nerdy comment about this clip: Your boyfriend is officially nerdier than mine.

Aimée: Really?

Angela: Yeah. Of course, Jodi’s has a Nostromo patch for his jacket, which means he out-nerds mine and yours.

Jodi: He also made a model of The Nostromo.

Aimée: What’s The Nostromo?

Angela *rolling
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Star Trekking (because entitling this “Zachary Quinto is Hot” would be wrong and shallow)

I adored the original Star Trek. I mean adored it in all its cheesy glory. I fell in love with Leonard Nimoy’s cynically lifted eyebrows, DeForest Kelly’s wonderful neurotic over-acting, Nichelle Nichols impossibly long false eyelashes and, of course, the Shatman wearing the hardest working corset in
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