Mike O'Driscoll
BANG! An Anthology of Modern Noir Fiction
I'm thrilled to have a new story, Highway 29, inspired by the track from Bruce Springsteen's classic Ghost of Tom Joad album, coming soon...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Philip K. Dick - Collected Stories
I've been rereading some of the stories in Harlan Ellison's groundbreaking Dangerous Visions anthology and came across Philip K. Dick's...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Dec 22, 2022
- 7 min
Candescent Blooms
Candescent Blooms could hardly have been better chosen as a title for this latest collection from Andrew Hook (Frequencies of Existence,...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Nov 22, 2022
- 4 min
Songs and Stories.
I'm delighted to announce that a new story, 'Highway 29' will appear in the Andrew Hook edited anothology of new crime fiction, Bang, due...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Nov 1, 2022
- 11 min
Not Peripheral...
But something more - maybe the best SF show on TV right now. Judging from the critical response to the first two episodes of Prime's new...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min
Helpmeet
by Naben Ruthnum I wish I could say that I enjoyed this short novella more than I did. It's published by Undertow, usually a pretty sure...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Oct 19, 2022
- 7 min
The Only Good Indians, & Mexican Gothic
*contains spoilers Both Mexican Gothic and The Only Good Indians have been on my 'to read' list for the last year or so. I had been...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Sep 22, 2022
- 2 min
Blood, Guns and Sex.
I've added a story to the fiction page. Originally written back in 1997, this is one I sold to Thomas Roche for an anthology series...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Jul 5, 2022
- 1 min
Moriah
This weekend, I finished reading Daniel Mills' haunting piece of American Gothic, Moriah, from Zagava Press. You can read my thoughts on...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Jul 5, 2022
- 5 min
Not making sense of death.
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." Leonardo da Vinci. Spoiler alert. This post is about...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Apr 9, 2022
- 8 min
Station Eleven & The Underground Railroad.
Mackenzie Davis as Kirsten Over the last couple of months I’ve watched two highly lauded series, both based on award winning novels, one...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Feb 4, 2022
- 4 min
Des Lewis and his Gestalt Real Time Reviews
Featuring a review of my novella Pervert Blood. Over at at the Gestalt Real Time Reviews, Des Lewis has reviewed the latest issue of...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Jan 29, 2022
- 1 min
We Will Not Be Here Yesterday
I've added the above story to the fiction pages of the site. I've long been a fan of art in general and modern art in particular. I'm...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Jan 17, 2022
- 4 min
The Green Knight & more ...
My apologies, but this piece contains spoilers. Got back Friday from a visit to San Francisco to see family living out there. One of the...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Dec 28, 2021
- 3 min
Black Static #80/81
The winter double issue of the new digest sized Black Static is out now, and it contains my new novella, Pervert Blood. Before I speak...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Dec 10, 2021
- 1 min
New Maps of Dreams
"Rarely has the appearance of the fantastic in a story been so brutally curtailed. It’s a fitting end to this exploration of the...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Dec 6, 2021
- 1 min
The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie
A few weeks back I read this evocative and profound meditation on memory and forgetting, on the nature of stories, especially those we...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Nov 20, 2021
- 1 min
Ramsey Campbell's Just Behind You
My review of Campbell's latest collection of short stories from PS Publishing is live now at Horrified Magazine. "There is little solace...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
Pervert Blood -Title Spread
Here's the title spread for my novella, Pervert Blood, due in the not too distant future in the next double issue of Black Static# 80/81....
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Oct 18, 2021
- 2 min
The Waterboys - Live
Went to see the Waterboys in Cardiff last night at St David's Hall. I was a huge fan of Mike Scott's band in the 80s and early 90s, from...
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