The two best by far are "Slow Glass " b storiesy Bob Shaw. He explores the consequences of glass that significantly slows the passage of light, making it possible, for example, to witness a murder committed in front of a slow glass window, many years later. A judge who sentenced the murderer at the time,going on…

...and anyway, that whole right brain = arty, left brain = logical is a myth. Up there with "we don't use 90% of our brain". Irritates me.

Is this the one where the cat...no. That's Witches Abroad. LOVE these books, all of them.

Listening to "Scapegallows" by Carol Birch, read by Anna Bentinck in the most wonderful accent. It's apparently based on a true story, about Margaret Catchpole who twice escaped hanging, and got deported to Australia. It's fascinating and really engaging. But quite gruesome, too. Lots about the horrible ways…

My first grade teacher read that to us (Three Men), so many years ago. I loved it. Such a happy book.

I've finished my latest book, Wolf Logic, a contemporary fantasy novel set here in Cape Town. Am putting in the illustrations now. Not sure how many pictures it's polite to post!

That's very true, Tom! And I find it rather confusing as often I'm far more familiar with the Powers explanation of events than...I was going to say what actually happened. But who knows what actually happened! :)

By the way, you are probably already aware of this, but Tim Powers wrote an alternative history / fantasy based on the exploits of Kim Philby. It's fantastic.

In the versions I was told, non-disney, the slipper was always gold. It would be interesting to know when it got changed to glass.

Reading around a little, it seems there's a fair amount of evidence that Caril Ann Fugate was more of a victim than a perpetrator, in which case, she really got the raw end of the deal. I'm basing this on the talk section of her Wikipedia page, not the greatest of references. Anybody know more about her? http://en.wi…

Aah! Awesome. Watching these reminded me of a fantastic documentary on South African urban dance called "African Cypher". Friends of mine were involved in making it so I was lucky enough to see a previe. The trailer only shows the dancing in the last half, but the movie is much more dance heavy and it's incredible.

I think the idea with that mail-it-to-yourself thing was to have a way of proving you'd written something before a certain date. If somebody plagiarised your work, you could wip out the sealed envelope and say "A-ha!" while pointing at the date stamp.

I agree about Maleficent. I think the movie works better if you don't see it as a Sleeping Beauty remake, but as it's own story with great references to that story. I loved the fact that she gets to be really angry, but stays powerful. Not like poor Jane Grey who had all that wonderful rage, and then gets oh so…

Artax was tough to deal with.

Tonks was the one I went "NO!" for when she died.

Tonks was the one character I really was sad about. I was shocked when she died.

This reminds me so much of Tintin - The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun

Jabberwocky in sign language is pretty cool too:

Whoops. That was the wrong button.

Vacuum outside. So who's that knocking?