The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, #3) - Philip Pullman
November 29, 2025, 12:00 am
Unsatisfying. This review expresses eloquently something like what I felt finishing the series.
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Shroud Pod
November 15, 2025, 1:07 am
Outside, the pod's various limbs clattered and banged as Ste Etienne moved them about. I began to appreciate the versatility of its design, for a vehicle that was going into such an unknown. The collar around the pod that had the legs fixed to it, with the main body of the pod designed to pivot freely within it, ensured that we, the occupants, were kept the right way up no matter what. An important consideration given how much work the cushioning couches were doing to support our fragile Earth evolved bodies. There was another collar, entirely free moving, that bore the various extendable arms, so St Etienne could use them to get tat any part of the pod's exterior she needed to, as well as any proximate part of Shroud we wanted to sample or molest.
Shroud is the recent hard sci fi novel from Adrian Tchaikovsky which inspired my latest Blender 3D modelling project. I'd learnt quite a bit about creating armiatures on my last project (another Adrian Tchaikovsky inspired scene) so getting the robotic arms and legs rigged up was quite straighforward.
Getting the lighting and atmostphere set up was more of a challenge. I wanted it to feel very soupy, but still have some of the detail on the model visible in the scene. Especially tricky given, in the authors words, "the entire thing takes place in complete darkness". I am quite pleased with how it turned out.
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La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1) - Philip Pullman
November 4, 2025, 12:00 am
There was a terrace above the river, where peacocks (one called Norman and the other called Barry) stalked among the drinkers, helping themselves to snacks without the slightest hesitation and occasionally lifting their heads to utter ferocious and meaningless screams.
On of my favourite books of all time. A little sad the trilogy was ultimately unsatisfying for me.
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The Golden Apples of the Sun - Ray Bradbury
October 12, 2025, 12:00 am
Then, of course, the telephone’s such a convenient thing; it just sits there and demands you call someone who doesn’t want to be called.
There was some great stories in this collection, but ultimately I should have probably skipped some of the others I didn't enjoy instead of labouring through them.
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Hedge Knight
October 10, 2025, 11:33 am
Pretty excited they are making a series out of the "Dunk and Egg" short stories that were also adapted to this amazing comic series:
Despite great casting, production and scripts I didn't love the original Game of Thrones show as it pretty quickly departed from the cannon. I am really enjoying House of the Dragon which is based on a completed story and, for the same reason, I reckon this new show has a really good chance of being good.
I hope they don't try and go past the third book though. Unless, of course, GRRM writes more in the interim. I can imagine the series ultimately ending up at Summerhall and I'd hate to see a non-cannon version of that.
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