Someone pointed out that I never post about my acting. There are a few good reasons... Stage As my mother's Alzheimer's ate away at her over the past few years, I could not commit to a play being staged months in the future. During those years, I daily expected a call requiring urgent travel …
Tag: Arts
The Economics of AI: Example
I recently had a great time at the 68th British National Science Fiction Annual Convention: meeting old friends; making new ones; attending some fascinating panels... The panels prompted my restless mind to explore tangential threads, as they should. Example... During the Artifical Intelligence (AI) panel, someone mentioned that when driverless trucks take over, some 3.5 million USA …
A Book & A Movie
A little self-congratulatory piece here. Not only was my first story, "Finspace", published in February, but tonight sees the Premiere of "Asta (Who Killed Asta Nielsen?)", a short movie in which I play the Doctor. (No - not THAT Doctor, but at the rate the BBC is going through his regenerations, they'll get round to …
A setting or a universe?
"Do you create an entire universe for your characters to live in and how much of that do you use in the actual story?" This is a question often posed, most recently by Mirjam Maclean of the LinkedIn Group: Science Fiction readers, writers, collectors, and artists. In my case...I began writing a human-based "far-future" novel (which is …
WHY Do You Want To Write?
It's a good question. In my case, I am retired; I need not work; I could just sit back and watch daytime TV. (The horror!) The reasons why I want to write are manifold, and - yes - that early laptop is significant, keep reading! School: My schools encouraged reading and we had few distractions. Our …
Andy McKell, Speculative Fiction Author 
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