scifi Archives - Paul Mackenzie Ross

A Year in Books: 2025

January 25, 2026December 31, 2025 by Paul Mackenzie Ross

Damn it. I read just 12 books this year. Last year it was 13. I was hoping to beat last year’s figure, especially when I’ve had one year where I indulged in over 20 books in one calendar year in 2023! However, it’s been a year of change, and recovering from surgery in December 2024 … Read more

Ready Player One: The References

September 2, 2019March 31, 2018 by Paul Mackenzie Ross

SPOILER ALERT I hadn’t heard about Steven Spielberg’s new film Ready Player One until this week. It cropped up somewhere as a reference in itself and that was it, as far as I was concerned. No trailer, no previews, no idea. But then the wife said she was taking the children to see it and … Read more

Go See Blade Runner 2049

November 30, 2025October 15, 2017 by Paul Mackenzie Ross

Blade Runner is one of my favourite films. It’s sci-fi, it’s got a great cast, it’s cult, seminal and influential, and the Iron Maiden album cover for “Somewhere in Time” owes a lot to it.

Accelerando

April 29, 2016October 10, 2009 by Paul Mackenzie Ross

28th day of August, 2009: For more than a year I’d been involved in a hefty Joomla! project, migrating a large 1.0.x website to the 1.5 version of the CMS. Having been far more involved in the SEO and editorial arts of the web in recent years, I’d lost touch with my artistic side, the … Read more