Tag Archives: Matt Colborn

Emerald to Ice: Adventuring in Ecological Science Fiction by Matt Colborn

Posted on 18 January 2022 by Jacey Bedford

There’s a sequence in David Attenborough’s insect series, Life in the Undergrowth, when he describes the annual life cycle of the bumble bee. The story of the queen bee founding her nest after hibernation, raising a whole society, producing new … Continue reading →

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Live from Milford 2021 – Day #6

Posted on 17 September 2021 by Jacey Bedford

Jacey Bedford: This is our last day at Milford. We finished the crits yesterday, so today has been a free day. I drove into Caernarfon with Terry, Liz T and Tiffani. We did a little retail therapy and had lunch … Continue reading →

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Seeing Mars by Matt Colborn

Posted on 19 January 2021 by Jacey Bedford

Mars, the god of war, presides over a tumultuous year. Mars the planet had its closest approach to Earth on October 6th, coming into opposition on the 18th. Although fading at the time of writing, it remains a welcome sight … Continue reading →

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How Not to Plot a Horror Film by Matt Colborn

Posted on 29 October 2018 by Jacey Bedford

As a writer you can sometimes learn more from dysfunctional stories than from masterpieces. Take the 2017 movie Annabelle: Creation, a prequel to the earlier rather mediocre prequel Annabelle (2014). The 2017 movie, directed by David F. Sandberg and written … Continue reading →

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A Wild Tomorrow? by Matt Colborn

Posted on 4 April 2018 by Jacey Bedford

“If I were to write a new dream of the future it would…still be a dream and picture of the human race in its forest period.”  So wrote the naturalist W.H. Hudson, discussing his far future utopia The Crystal Age … Continue reading →

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Live blogging from Milford 2017: Monday 11th September – 19.00

Posted on 11 September 2017 by Jacey Bedford

Jacey Bedford My first crit session of the week went well. This was my revised opening of The Amber Crown, set in an analogue of the Baltic States around the middle of the seventeenth century. I’m working on a revision … Continue reading →

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