Robert Lynch

The last couple of weeks have been quite a struggle. Working permanent nights has always been taxing, and I find myself very tired when I...

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, is just a fantastic book. Published in 2014, the book went on to win the Arthur C Clark Award in...

The new year is a good point to take stock of the past and plan for the future. Last week I looked at the past, and this week I want to...

The first Wonder Woman movie was disjointed, as the third act didn’t match the first two acts. That isn't a problem in WW84; the film is...

At the beginning of the year, I wanted to build an audience by completing my weekly content and writing 12 Frank Mason short stories;...

Falling Free, by Lois MacMaster Bujold, was originally published in 4 parts in Analog in 1987-8 and won the Nebula award in 1988. The...

More often than I would like to admit, I have had the time to write but instead procrastinated by watching TV or playing games. It bugs...

There are 168 hours in a week, and in the week since Cyberpunk 2077 was released, I have played a little over 50 hours. As reviews go,...

In 2015 the Australian government ran an anti-smoking campaign with the tagline, “Every time you quit you get a little better at it.” The...

I just finished the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. The series has been on my list of books to read, and I finally managed to make...

Last week I had a week off from Crappy Night Job. Unlike previous holidays, I did not try to fill my week with a huge list of things to...

I’ve talked about sleep a lot on this blog. As a permanent night shift worker, sleep dominates much of the time when I’m not at work...

I don't know what motivation is. I don't know how to harness it. I wish I did. I have spent probably the better part of the last ten...

It’s been a while since I’ve seen the sun. Working nights makes the sun my enemy most of the time. By the time I get up the sun is gone,...

I read Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari this week. I’m not going to do a review, because my style of story-based review doesn’t fit this...

I just watched The Prisoner for the first time. Wow. What a ride. The Prisoner is one of those shows that I had heard about for a long...

The same as with the end of the calendar year, the end of the financial year always makes me introspective. For the last couple of weeks,...

Metropolis is a science fiction silent film, one of the first feature-length scifi films ever made. Directed by Fritz Lang, screenplay by...

I re-read last week’s blog, and there is an undertone when I talk about writing that I thought I’d explore this week. I wrote: “I seem to...

Every now and then it's good to revisit the classics, and my recent read-through of the Philip Marlowe stories has been a lovely walk...