panic moon

June 27, 2011

Camp Onion

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It’s coming up to Panic Moon time again.

The July issue of the estimable print fanzine is now available for pre-order, here.

This time, Yours Truly has provided a piece on ‘Frontios’, in which I explain why I like it despite reading it as a reactionary parable, and a short sketch of a Marxist interpretation of ‘Spearhead from Space’, in which I attempt to tenuously connect the concepts of alienation and commodity fetishism to a story about killer shop-window dummies lead by an alien octopus.

This is what is known as ‘a waste of a mediocre education’.

But we have some laughs, don’t we?

No?

Oh well.…

April 1, 2011

Panicking Again

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The April issue of the excellent fanzine Panic Moon has just been released.

In have two articles in the new issue: a consideration of realism (or lack thereof) and a debt to modernism in ‘Snakedance’, and a rumination on why it might be that ‘gods’ in Doctor Who tend to be depicted sitting down.

Lots of other stuff too. Full details here.

Oh, and here is a link to the fanzine’s Facebook group.…

January 14, 2011

Do Panic

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The new edition of the fanzine Panic Moon is just out…

…featuring two little articles by myself, in which I ponder ‘The Mutants’ (soon to be out on DVD) and ‘The Seeds of Doom’ (out recently).

But don’t let that put you off, there’s plenty of other stuff… including a very interesting article by Oliver Wake (also the Editor) about Don Taylor, Sydney Newman’s first choice to be Who‘s producer.

Details here.…