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Book of the Moment

I, Zombie
By Al Ewing

I, Zombie "My name is John Doe. I’ve been dead for ten years."

My name is John Doe. I've been dead for ten years. I have no heartbeat, no breath, no smell, just cold, clammy flesh animated by something I don't understand. So I sell my dead flesh to the highest bidder. If the price is right, I'll kill for you, steal for you, or save your life for you. There's no mystery you can't hire me to...

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SFX Weekender: Ninth Post
By David Moore - 06 Feb, 2010

So, yeah, some more costumes for you. Pretty cool, I thought.




Part ten here.

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SFX Weekender: Seventh Post
By David Moore - 06 Feb, 2010


So we hit a bar in Rye last night to have a bit of a drink and get down. Here's us around the table.


Not me, obviously. I'm holding the camera.


The taxi driver recommended it to us. We walked in and Brian Glover shouted at us to keep off the moors and stick to the path.


Well, he didn't, really, because he's dead and that would have been creepy. Also awesome.


Seriously, it was quite a nice pub and they were quite friendly.


The DJ was extraordinary. He'd brought about fifty CDs with him and was all "yeah, come up and let me know any requests!"


Fifty.


So we went up and asked, but even trying to be as cheese-friendly as we could, we had about a 30% hit rate. His face fell every time we asked, but he was so happy every time he could help. It was kind of half-DJ, half-Spaniel.


So now it's Day Two of the con (Day Three onsite). Tired, bleary, slightly hungover.


Living the dream, baby. Living the dream.


Eighth post, for those reading the whole thing in order, is here.

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SFX Weekender: Fifth Post
By David Moore - 05 Feb, 2010







Next post is here.

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SFX Weekender: Third Post
By David Moore - 05 Feb, 2010

And the con is in full swing. We're selling books - Paul Kane's Arrowhead and Broken Arrow are quite successful today, as are Scott Andrews' Lee Keegan books - chatting folk up, and pottering about.

Our very own (and 2000 AD's) Al Ewing has been up for a comic-writing workshop along with 2000 AD's Leigh Gallagher, talking up the audience and getting them to call out plot ideas while Leigh drew.

The ideas posed a bit of a challenge, in the end; they ended up writing a story about Dredd investigating an MP who bought porn on expenses, only to discover that the porn was poisonous.

Hm.


At any rate, above is Al rocking the mic like a born MC, and below is Leigh getting his penmanship on.

Fourt post is here.

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SFX Weekender: First Post
By David Moore - 05 Feb, 2010
As promised, I am blogging live from the SFX Weekender, where I will be updating you intermittently throughout the day.

So we got on site yesterday after my first time ever driving a van - a harrowing, but in the end reassuringly straightforward experience - and went for a pint. Because that's how we roll.

Then we unloaded the van and had another pint.

Then we went to find our chalets and had another pint.

Then we wandered around Camber looking for a fictional restaurant, gave up, grabbed some supermarket pizza and came back for another pint.

Limped out of bed at around 8.30 (or so; some got up earlier than later), sorted the boxes a little and saw these guys.

Do you suppose convention stormtrooper guys turn up, see other convention stormtrooper guys, and think, "Oh my god! Somebody else came dressed as the same thing! I'm going to just die."

No?

Whatever.

Breakfast at some horrifying cafe where the woman made us fix her lights before we were allowed to sit down - this is actually true - and back to set the stall up.

More as the day progresses. I'm really just in it for Tom Baker.

The second post is here.

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Seriously...
By David Moore - 04 Feb, 2010
"The researchers described 'spider' hunting techniques among the bots in which hunters would lie in wait for prey (which in this case, fortunately, consisted of other robots)."

Yeah, for the time being, assholes.

The one thing we had over the relentless titanium-clawed harbingers of our destruction was evolution. We were better than them, and had a reasonable chance of remaining better than them over the generations as they crushed our children under their terrible feet, until one day a man would rise as a leader to overthrow the metallic overlords, to a sound-track by Guns 'N' Roses. Now, one of them will probably rise up to fight him, and it'll have lasers.

In the meantime, the US Army has equipped robots with actual guns. Some 3000 of the psychotic little bastards are actually in use now. I don't care if you've given them a cute name like "SWORDS." Don't get them used to being armed! Seriously, did South Africa teach us nothing?

I give up. Clearly, as a species, we want to eaten by blood-drinking, lamprey-eel-brain-controlled, intelligent, climbing, gun-toting machines. I'm stocking my bunker now. We'll see who's laughing/receiving a court injunction when Skynet goes live.



In other news, we're heading off to the SFX Weekender shortly. If you're coming, be sure to swing by our table. Otherwise, I'll be slinging up Tweets and blogposts over the course of the next few days.

See you soon!

David

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SFXWeekender Tomorrow!
By David Moore - 03 Feb, 2010

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Special Announcement
By David Moore - 03 Feb, 2010

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The Podcast is Here!
By David Moore - 29 Jan, 2010
  • Not on iTunes, and have sworn to end your life rather than download a single Apple application? Here to help! Just point your RSS client here to download the feed without putting a penny in Steve Jobs' pocket. Keep an eye on the blog for updates, in case we change the host or something crazy like that.
  • Bewildered by the term "RSS" and unsure what all this means? No problem, ignorant Luddite! Just follow the exact same link, click on the link to the mp3 of the episode you wish to hear, and you can listen right on your browser! Everyone's a winner!

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Err...
By David Moore - 28 Jan, 2010

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