Martin Hayes - www.paroneiria.com http://www.paroneiria.com Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:54:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Good old George http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/08/26/good-old-george/ http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/08/26/good-old-george/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:55:32 +0000 martin http://www.paroneiria.com/?p=819 george-orwell-vintage-typewriter - Copy

I keep coming back to this.

Thinking always of my island in the Hebrides[12], which I suppose I shall never possess nor even see. Compton Mackenzie says even now most of the islands are uninhabited (there are 500 of them, only 10 per cent inhabited at normal times), and most have water and a little cultivable land, and goats will live on them.

[12] This is the first reference to Orwell’s dream of living in the Hebrides, to be realised in 1945 when he rented Barnhill, on Jura. Compare Winston Smith’s version of ‘the Golden Country’ in Nineteen Eighty-Four; see also Orwell’s review of Priest Island, 640. Peter Davison

via Orwell Diaries

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My short story Me Am Petri appears in this week’s issue of Nature.

]]> http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/08/26/new-short-story-in-nature/feed/ Neat and Tidy http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/08/23/neat-and-tidy/ http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/08/23/neat-and-tidy/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:18:07 +0000 martin http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/08/23/neat-and-tidy/ My friend and cohort Roy Huteson Stewart posted a picture of his desk on facebook yesterday.

It is magnificent.

Roy Huteson Stewart's desk

]]> http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/08/23/neat-and-tidy/feed/ Stephen McKenna – The Oldest God (1926) http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/08/22/stephen-mckenna-the-oldest-god-1926/ http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/08/22/stephen-mckenna-the-oldest-god-1926/#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:00:04 +0000 martin http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/08/22/stephen-mckenna-the-oldest-god-1926/ Stephen McKenna - The Oldest God

This blurry fish seems to agree…

It's shit here

]]> http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/08/22/stephen-mckenna-the-oldest-god-1926/feed/ Necrophilia by Jim Leon (1938-2002) http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/07/21/necrophilia-by-jim-leon-1938-2002/ http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/07/21/necrophilia-by-jim-leon-1938-2002/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:05:33 +0000 martin http://www.paroneiria.com/?p=794 Necrophilia by Jim Leon - Oz #36 (1971)

Necrophilia by Jim Leon, Oz #36 (1971). Via John Coulthart.

Online library of Oz magazines here.

]]> http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/07/21/necrophilia-by-jim-leon-1938-2002/feed/ Holga 135BC Mod http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/07/15/holga-135bc-mod/ http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/07/15/holga-135bc-mod/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:18:09 +0000 martin http://www.paroneiria.com/?p=731 More idiot insurance than a mod, really.  But having only ever owned digital cameras, it had to be done.

holga-mod-003-custom

]]> http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/07/15/holga-135bc-mod/feed/ Nature (again) (again) http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/07/15/nature-again-again/ http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/07/15/nature-again-again/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:17:56 +0000 martin http://www.paroneiria.com/?p=779 Sold another story to Nature yesterday.

Me Am Petri should appear in a couple of months or so, I reckon.

]]> http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/07/15/nature-again-again/feed/ Dolphin House http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/06/08/dolphin-house/ http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/06/08/dolphin-house/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:53:03 +0000 martin http://www.paroneiria.com/?p=772

]]> http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/06/08/dolphin-house/feed/ Channel surfing http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/06/06/channel-surfing/ http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/06/06/channel-surfing/#comments Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:45:42 +0000 martin http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/06/06/channel-surfing/ Definitely some kind of mix up here.

Image020 (Custom)

Not sure what was going on in this one. 

Image025 (Custom)

But it seemed to end well.

Image027 (Custom)

The blue sign was labelled “religion.” Not sure if it was the cure or the cause of the AIDS.

]]> http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/06/06/channel-surfing/feed/ New story in Supernatural Tales http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/05/03/new-story-in-supernatural-tales/ http://www.paroneiria.com/2010/05/03/new-story-in-supernatural-tales/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 16:59:45 +0000 martin http://www.paroneiria.com/?p=750 Got my comp copies of Supernatural Tales issue 17 last week. Includes my short story, 13 Nassau Street.

Looks great. Very nice cover by Stephen J. Clarke. Lots of good stories in there too.

Available here.

ST #17

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