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  • Classic Tunes: \”Dancing in Outer Space\” by Atmosfear

    The first few posts to this new blog were fairly long personal recollections of my early career as a DJ. Last time out, I posted my first full review of an album. And this time, in my ongoing efforts to add some variety to the blog, I\’m trying something else. Here\’s the first in what…

  • Welcome to Science Fiction Reader

    Welcome to the new Science Fiction Reader blog. This blog is focused solely on science fiction literature, and is intended to be a review and recommendations showcase for the best SF stories that I\’ve come across over the years, as well as any new material that I happen to read. As such, the nature of…

  • Classic Albums – Silk Degrees by Boz Scaggs (1976)

    Original album 1976 (Columbia Records) Remastered Audio CD (24 Feb 2007) Three extra live tracks Number of Discs: 1 Label: Sony Music CMG       Track listing: What Can I Say (3:02) Georgia (3:56) Jump Street (5:13) What Do You Want The Girl To Do (3:51) Harbor Lights (5:59) Lowdown (5:17) It\’s Over (2:52)…

  • Welcome to Science Fiction Reader

    Welcome to the new Science Fiction Reader blog. This blog is focused solely on science fiction literature, and is intended to review and recommend the best – in other words, my favourite 🙂 – SF anthologies and single-author short fiction collections that I\’ve come across over the years, as well as any new material that…

  • DJ Phil, a Brief Career Introspective – The Early Years (Part Three)

    Sometime around October-November 1986, the \”Gay Disco\” left the disastrous venue of the Union Hall and returned to its original home on the Magee College campus. A new Student\’s Union had opened, a temporary portacabin structure known as \”The Terrapin\”, which was to house all the student entertainment facilities until the current permanent Student\’s Union…

  • DJ Phil, a Brief Career Introspective – The Early Years (Part Two)

    Last time out, I made the comment that, if I was going to get regular work, I\’d have to start gigging outside my comfort zone of the rock and alternative scene, sell my soul to the dark side and start playing at commercial discos. Well, sometime in 1983 (I can\’t remember the exact date), and…

  • DJ Phil, a Brief Career Introspective – The Early Years (Part One)

    Since I\’m a DJ and (obviously) one of my greatest passions in life is music, I reckon that the time\’s long overdue for me to start up a music blog, something covering both my thoughts and memories about music AND copious reviews of albums and specific music that I\’m a fan of. Given that I\’m…

  • In the Beginning… My Earliest Days on the Internet (Part Two)

    When I first joined CompuServe UK, back in Christmas 1995, we were still in that antediluvial period when we had to pay by-the-hour for internet access, and it was a couple of years yet before Compuserve was to introduce monthly flat-rate payments (at the end of 1997), in response to an earlier similar move made…

  • In the Beginning… My Earliest Days on the Internet (Part One)

    I\’ve been online for a long time now, almost twenty years, in fact. My love affair with the internet started when I first came online on Christmas morning, December 1995, and has continued ever since. I can now barely remember what life was like before the internet, and it\’s so much part of my daily…

  • It\’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part Three)

    This one has been a long time coming. But better late than never, I suppose… The Barren Years – The Near-Death of Geekery During the Eighties All throughout the first half of the 1970\’s, I was in geek heaven, having seemingly unlimited time to spend on my obsessions with comics, sf literature, telefantasy and sci-fi…