tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post116023111417678044..comments2010-03-30T11:54:50.300+01:00Paul Cornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07366796946594435087noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-22504680328005616512010-03-30T11:54:50.296+01:002010-03-30T11:54:50.296+01:00That&#39;s brilliant, Joe, thanks very much! I&#39;ll blog that next week, if I may. Cheers.Paul Cornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07366796946594435087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-59651272010382988222010-03-29T01:43:12.574+01:002010-03-29T01:43:12.574+01:00Hi Paul,<br /><br />I just finished doing the artwork for Best New SF 23, featuring one of your tales, and couldn&#39;t miss the opportunity to say hello.<br /><br />I hope you like the cover, http://www.joeroberts.co.uk/Book_Covers/Best_New_SF_23.html<br /><br />Cheers, Joe Roberts<br /><br />P.S. I snuck a Where&#39;s Wally style TARDIS onto last years (don&#39;t tell anyone)Joe Robertshttp://www.JoeRoberts.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1164791130628054572006-11-29T09:05:00.000Z2006-11-29T09:05:00.000ZAt the Robin Hood fansite link on the right you'll find a message board that includes a section devoted to fiction.Paul Cornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07366796946594435087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1164767137645329392006-11-29T02:25:00.000Z2006-11-29T02:25:00.000ZHi Paul,it's probably staring me in the face,but where is the link you posted to the Robin Hood fic?All help,greatly recieved.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1162113111477709522006-10-29T09:11:00.000Z2006-10-29T09:11:00.000ZI'm glad you were so inspired. And ta, all! There's a section for adult fan fic at the Robin forum I've linked to.Paul Cornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07366796946594435087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1162080099564544962006-10-29T01:01:00.000+01:002006-10-29T01:01:00.000+01:00Darn, and here I thought I could settle down for a nice, quiet evening to myself without actually writing something. I have succumbed to the Robin/Much that is ever present in the back of my mind - therefore I will end up writing some fan fiction before the night is over.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1161650063026064492006-10-24T01:34:00.000+01:002006-10-24T01:34:00.000+01:00I think Robin Hood is fantastic!!!<BR/>Perfect casting,funny with a lot of modern day speak thrown in,great acting and the very delectable Jonas Armstong to feast my eyes upon.What more could i ask for?(More series to be made.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1161532197985697382006-10-22T16:49:00.000+01:002006-10-22T16:49:00.000+01:00Why is this the only page I can find when looking for slash featuring Robin Hood? Surely it's unfair to have such frequent references to pretty men loving one another, when there's nothing online to satisfy the cravings such lines inspire?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1161466395591740362006-10-21T22:33:00.000+01:002006-10-21T22:33:00.000+01:00Love the fact that <I>Robin Hood</I> is so deliberately full of boylove. I think that all the blatant subtext is earning it quite a fandom. Your episode was tonight's, I presume? Very nice! I take it that the Robin/Sheriff dialogue was so very slashy on purpose then? ;)Katehttp://www.livejournal.com/users/thegreatesthitsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1161031690737769412006-10-16T21:48:00.000+01:002006-10-16T21:48:00.000+01:00I'm not Sue from Plokta but am looking forward to seeing the next Robin Hood.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1160722229340205932006-10-13T07:50:00.000+01:002006-10-13T07:50:00.000+01:00I think it's a challenge to be met, but, having consulted with, amongst others, editor Lou Anders, I have the following list: Mappa Mundi by Justina Robson (I'd recommend any Justina, but my favourite, Keeping It Real, laughs in the face of Mundanism); Ian McDonald's River of Gods (which is 'mostly mundane', is great stuff and he's a mate); and Alan Dean Foster's Sagramanda, which I haven't read. Apart from the aforementioned Infoquake, I'd add Geoff Ryman's own recent works, such as the excellent Air to that list. I envy you re-encountering SF, it's a heady world at the moment.Paul Cornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07366796946594435087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1160668719832359272006-10-12T16:58:00.000+01:002006-10-12T16:58:00.000+01:00Thanks for the pointer to Mundane SF. I almost abandoned SF in my early twenties due to the ubiquity of near-magic which made it all seem less pertinent to my life than the modern british novel which I had recently embraced. There may be hope after all, and my office arguments that Star Trek and its ilk are actually fantasy, despite containing no wizards or quests, may one day become orthodoxy.<BR/><BR/>Any other recommendations within the movement? The Wikipedia entry gives criteria but no examples. Or is Mundane SF more an ideal than a movement?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1160637401442374862006-10-12T08:16:00.000+01:002006-10-12T08:16:00.000+01:00You're Sue from Plokta, right?Paul Cornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07366796946594435087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1160517107901902942006-10-10T22:51:00.000+01:002006-10-10T22:51:00.000+01:00Anonymous Meatloaf poster here again! Knowing who you are talking to might be a huge disappointment, I reckon anonymity is far more interesting! Great blog though, I've enjoyed reading it!..........Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1160496160095581482006-10-10T17:02:00.000+01:002006-10-10T17:02:00.000+01:00I pleased to say I have received a reply from the BBC about Jane Eyre. The implication is that the scene will be cut - we shall see...Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401829996911289693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1160494284413082412006-10-10T16:31:00.000+01:002006-10-10T16:31:00.000+01:00The Mystery Science Theatre movie does a really good job on This Island Earth.Paul Cornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07366796946594435087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1160484181685120652006-10-10T13:43:00.000+01:002006-10-10T13:43:00.000+01:00Hey, Exeter's in Devon, which is next to Cornwall, which is only a hop, skip and a jump from Cornell!<BR/><BR/>Might be something in it, I reckon. Are your books printed on some kind of metal?<BR/><BR/>Fox will turn out to be the Bazil character. You know, the one with the tweed jacket and bushy red tail.<BR/><BR/>Boom, boom.Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401829996911289693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1160479692861049772006-10-10T12:28:00.000+01:002006-10-10T12:28:00.000+01:00Spooks - the Fox Thing - will probably be touched on in later episodes. One of the team is Fox and I have an idea which (male) it is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1160478945443172562006-10-10T12:15:00.000+01:002006-10-10T12:15:00.000+01:00Wouldn't it have been good if Exeter's assistant was called Penzance?Paul Cornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07366796946594435087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1160470252261354912006-10-10T09:50:00.000+01:002006-10-10T09:50:00.000+01:00A wig. Exactly what I was expecting.<BR/><BR/>Thinking about it, the Fox thing may turn up again in a later episode. I don't like the look of that sour blonde myself. She's a bad lot altogether.Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401829996911289693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1160469343572544752006-10-10T09:35:00.000+01:002006-10-10T09:35:00.000+01:00<I>Spooks</I>: <BR/><BR/>Why did Ruth go to the flat and threaten the woman? To sell the bluff that she was the traitor. <BR/><BR/>Why wasn't someone in the house with her? Lazy plotting.<BR/><BR/>Why didn't they notice her hair had changed colour? Yes, that was crap. I thought the blonde would at least whip out a wig. <BR/><BR/>Why wasn't the codename-Fox thing pursued? I assume that was in there to show how the team all trust each other so implicitly they immediately know that it was a set-up.SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333108684260413855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1160468164477839422006-10-10T09:16:00.000+01:002006-10-10T09:16:00.000+01:00My family and I sat and watched Robin Hood together and enjoyed it. Robin doesn't look like he's been to the crusades? So what? It's early evening Saturday telly, for goodness sake. (What percentage of the population do you think know WHAT the crusades were anyway, eh?) It's got bad men in black with gruff voices, a goody who can shoot not one but TWO arrows at once and slice through a length of rope and, what's more, a clutch of busty maidens!<BR/><BR/>What's this about Torchwood being an adult programme? It's being repeatedly trailered when kids are watching. AND it's on the sides of buses.<BR/><BR/>Spooks? Sometimes it's good, but I do think it really suffers from insufficient explanation. Last week's episode was extremely pacey very early on, just so it could all slow down so we could see Adam get all overcome with emotion at the end. This week's episode was great, but with eight minutes to go I was wondering if it was a 2-parter. No - quickly gloss over the detail and have a teary ending between Ruth and whatsisname. What was the point of the scene in which Ruth went to the flat of the woman who had been bought to say she'd witnessed Ruth pushing the man off the platform? If Ruth was under house arrest why wasn't someone IN the house with her? Why didn't the blokes in the car outside notice that her hair had changed colour? Why wasn't the Fox thing pursued?<BR/><BR/>And what about Jane Eyre? It's not quite Bleak House and there seems to have been a few scenes cut that leave a few gaps, but we've all enjoyed it. The casting's marvellous. However, I had to write to the BBC yesterday to ask if the sex scene will be cut from the 5.10pm repeat next Sunday. My six-year-old daughter loves it, but I can't let her see a scene in which a woman is up against a wall with her skirt up around her hips and a man between her legs and they're both bouncing up and down, even if it is only a few seconds. Do I think they'll cut the scene? No, frankly I don't. (And I don't expect a reply, either.)<BR/><BR/>Paul: I wandered over to Chris Roberson's website the other day after reading your blog. In the photo of him on the site it struck me that he looks rather like Brak, Exeter's evil sidekick from This Island Earth! (And you look a bit like Exeter, funnily enough. Do you have a trick plane with no pilot? An acre of canvas? An interocitor?!)Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401829996911289693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1160466380464361872006-10-10T08:46:00.000+01:002006-10-10T08:46:00.000+01:00I think a Bella Pagan franchise would be a wonderful idea. Actually... Wiccan themed restaurants... that might *seriously* be... no, what am I thinking? And yes, the Jack Sparrow comparison is a good one. You don't get people being all 'nee nee nee nee, pirates weren't like that' with those movies. Or maybe you do, but I don't have to notice that. Actually, I am related to Meatloaf, on Bonnie Tyler's side. But 'quaint'! Oh dear, you're going to end up on the wrong side of a wicker man experience if you use the Q word around here. Who are you Anonymous folk, anyway? I know with the leap to Blogger 2, loads of people are now anonymous whatever they do, but I like to know who I'm talking with.Paul Cornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07366796946594435087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1160434637444633542006-10-09T23:57:00.000+01:002006-10-09T23:57:00.000+01:00I've seen that photo and I tend to agree. Meatloaf move over. Paul can you sing? I understand you work in the Faringdon Arts Festival, will you sing in that? I'd like an excuse to visit your quaint town!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20125944.post-1160427393465463732006-10-09T21:56:00.000+01:002006-10-09T21:56:00.000+01:00Are you a relation of Meatloaf? just been looking at a photograph of you at the Hugo Awards and we see a distinct resemblance....he is our hero but lives a long way away whereas you are very much closer ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com