A thought-provoking post over at Cat Valente’s blog about our fascination with the end of the world and our need to be part of a story: No one wants to miss out. On the End Times, on the Singlarity. On Peak Oil, which I see certain folk talking about in the same eager terms, looking [...]
9 July 2010
Categories: (Anti)Social Commentary, Books & Reading, Writing & Publishing . Tags: post-apocalypse, Madigan Mine, Angela Slatter, reviews, eschatology, Years's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, gender . Author: kirstynmcdermott . Comments: 2 Comments
I’ve been fairly disappointed by most of the movies I’ve gone to the trouble to see on the big screen lately. Avatar, Holmes, The Lovely Bones, among others … all big budget productions with effects up the whazoo but all falling down, to greater and lesser extent, in terms of plot and execution. (You remember [...]
9 February 2010
Categories: Movies & TV . Tags: Film, post-apocalypse, The Road . Author: kirstynmcdermott . Comments: Leave a Comment
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Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian writer living in Melbourne. Mostly. 
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A thought-provoking post over at Cat Valente’s blog about our fascination with the end of the world and our need to be part of a story: No one wants to miss out. On the End Times, on the Singlarity. On Peak Oil, which I see certain folk talking about in the same eager terms, looking [...]
9 July 2010
Categories: (Anti)Social Commentary, Books & Reading, Writing & Publishing . Tags: post-apocalypse, Madigan Mine, Angela Slatter, reviews, eschatology, Years's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, gender . Author: kirstynmcdermott . Comments: 2 Comments