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Pickers
The bunker echoed with its first human sounds in decades, the slap and squeak of rubber soles on marble flooring. A slight figure sprinted out of the corridor into the three storey atrium, hurdled a...
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Pickers part 1
In a climate changed future, Pickers travel the badlands between towns and farms, finding what they can to salvage from before the collapse. One family of Pickers is about to start a search for a prize...
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New and improved! Buy B-Movie Night now
B-Movie Night, the collection of book and movie reviews from Spinneyhead, has been revised and expanded.As well as a new layout, there are now improved links, that will redirect to your local Amazon,...
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Pickers 2: The Trip
The roads were mostly memories, scars through the landscape. But the rough, pockmarked surface generally grew smoother around settlements. It made sense for the route to and from the fields to be...
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Pickers 3: The Valley
Out on 1st August. Part 3 of 4- The Valley Remy and his family have made it back to The Valley, which they left ten years before. Now they have to persuade the town- led by Remy’s brother Julien- to...
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Post Apocalypse Motor Home
When I refer to the “wagons” in Pickers, these- but driven by electric motors, armoured and loaded with salvage- are close to what I see. Source: Globecruiser Motor Home | Aravua Follow
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Upsetting Puppies for fun and profit
Part 4 of Pickers is published on Saturday, finishing the serial. It’s the crazy action, big fight, obviously inspired by Mad Max 2 and Fury Road finale, and it was rather fun to write. If you’ve been...
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Two wheel drive electric motorbike? Yes please
Early in part one of Pickers, Maxine finds a two wheel drive electric motorcycle, and claims it as her own. I wrote it in knowing it was a possible vehicle, but not knowing whether any existed yet....
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Secret Demon Services
My current project is a Garth Owen tale of an accidental demon summoning becoming a viral meme. Perhaps my characters will need help from these guys…. Spotted in town on Saturday. Follow
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Doomflight
Doomflight This is a thin book, and I had the time to spare, so I read it in a day. And it’s taken me over a month to write up the review. Fradley aerodrome was built, and then abandoned during the...
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Pickers- post climate change action and adventure
Available from Amazon. The Lost Picture Show is home to films yet to be made, putting a twist on genres and playing with plots. Grab some popcorn, settle down, and enjoy. In a climate changed future,...
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What I am watching now
It’s time to try to keep a record of all the films I watch. So, on as near as possible to a weekly basis, it begins now. How I Live Now Tightly wound American teen Daisy is sent to spend some time in...
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Things
This week’s viewing- Chappie An anthropomorphised Police droid has a consciousness program uploaded onto it, is adopted by a gang of punk rock criminals and causes all hell to break loose. Another...
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This week’s films
Skin Trade I suppose this is fallout from the Expendables films, giving Dolph Lundgren his career back and teaming him with a newer action star. He’s a lumbering, solid presence, and his mass seems to...
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A week of films
Tomorrowland: A World Beyond This was a fun film, playing with the power of optimism and futurist visions, past and present. Teen prodigy Casey wants to solve all the world’s problems, when no-one else...
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DARPA are planning my Pickers bikes
In Pickers, one of the characters gets a two wheel drive electric motorbike, that she puts to good use all the way through the story. It seems the US military, through the Defense Advanced Research...
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Carbon capture done properly
Scientists in Iceland have managed to turn carbon dioxide emissions to rock, which would make true carbon capture a possibility. Scientists working at the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant near...
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Liquid Gambit
Rick is a Lupan- human/wolf hybrid, whose forebears were created for war- tending his small bar on the lowest levels of a dead end station in neutral space. When he comes into possession of a small...
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Zombies Versus Vampires, part 1
The two black towers were stakes driven into the heart of the city. Overbearing, ugly, and completely out of place, they looked down on the pale sandstone and red brick of the lower rise buildings...
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Zombies vs Vampires, part 6
Terry stared at the deep red liquid in his glass. He tilted and twisted the goblet, watching the way the thick liquid moved. “This is really blood?” “Yes, it is.” Leech assured him. “Human blood?” It...
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