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MELANIE ROUSSEL FICTION
Melanie Roussel
May 4, 20203 min read
Granny Weatherwax - Bad Ass Witch and Crone
Granny Weatherwax was not an advertisement for witchcraft. Oh, she was one of the best at it, no doubt about that. At a certain kind,...
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Melanie Roussel
May 1, 20204 min read
Sam Vimes - Commander of the City Watch
Pratchett's go-to figure in the series for law and order. If Vimes agrees, we can usually be assured that it's the just option.
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Melanie Roussel
Apr 20, 20203 min read
Whatever happened to Terra Nova?
It's a truth universally acknowledged that sci-fi shows are the first to get the boot.
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Melanie Roussel
Apr 13, 20203 min read
Review: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
This is a classic story combining dark fantasy, horror and coming of age.
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Melanie Roussel
Apr 1, 20203 min read
The Origins of April Fool's Day
Where, when and why did we decide that April 1st was a good day to pull pranks on one another? Well, like many weird aspects of our...
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Melanie Roussel
Mar 29, 20202 min read
Blogging in a Lockdown
What a strange new world we find ourselves in. I guess every generation has it's one-in-a-lifetime, to tell your grandkids about, event.
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Melanie Roussel
Mar 11, 20202 min read
Review: Geek Feminist Revolution by Hurley
The Feminist Revolution is a collection of essays by the Sc-Fi novelist and double Hugo Award-winning Kameron Hurley.
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Melanie Roussel
Dec 9, 20192 min read
Science Fiction Predicts 2020
2020 is just around the corner. In these troubling times, it's helpful to have an idea of what's in store. Well, fear not, here are a few...
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Melanie Roussel
Nov 4, 20193 min read
14 Years later, is V for Vendetta still relevant?
I think if this movie had come out today, the reviews would have been more favourable...
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Melanie Roussel
Sep 23, 20193 min read
Steampunk: Airships
What does every alternate version of history have, from steampunk to dystopias? Airships, of course! In fact, I’ve just finished reading...
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Melanie Roussel
Sep 19, 20191 min read
Flash: The Busy Bee by Melanie Roussel
My neighbour Mrs Cassidy keeps bees
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Melanie Roussel
Sep 16, 20194 min read
6 Clichés of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Villains
Here’s my list of five signs that you're dealing with a clichéd bad guy...
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Melanie Roussel
Sep 9, 20194 min read
Alternative Timeline Episodes Are a Waste of Time
What does Lucifer, The Umbrella Academy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, Bones, Red Dwarf and Stargate SG-1 have in common?
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Melanie Roussel
Sep 2, 20193 min read
Is it possible to balance Science and Fiction?
How much fiction will we put up with our science? Why did series like Star Trek apparently predict technology which is now abundant?
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Melanie Roussel
Aug 26, 20192 min read
Where do you get your ideas from?
Neil Gaiman has said: 'I make them up,' I tell them. 'Out of my head.'
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Melanie Roussel
Aug 26, 20194 min read
Killgrave, Allison & Mind Control
George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic example, but it turns up in pop culture a lot in the 1950s.
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Melanie Roussel
Aug 20, 20193 min read
Why we should still read H. P. Lovecraft
Lovecraft experienced episodes of parasomnia ‘night terrors’ from the tender age of six.
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Melanie Roussel
Aug 16, 20193 min read
Hugo Gernsback - another Father of Science Fiction
There are many fathers of science fiction. But it's Hugo Gernsback we must thank for making science fiction the genre it is today.
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Melanie Roussel
Jul 29, 20192 min read
Review: Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Only days before a massive exhibition is due to open at the New York Museum of Natural History, there is a brutal series of murders.
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Melanie Roussel
Jul 25, 20194 min read
5 Things do to when you don't want to write
Here are five alternatives to sitting down at the keyboard which will help the next time you do.
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