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Damien Walter

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Damien G Walter is a writer of weird and speculative fiction. His stories have appeared in many odd and wonderful publications including BBC Radio. He is a graduate of the 2008 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy workshop at UC San Diego

November 2015

  • a view of Earth from the International Space Station

    Damien Walter's weird things
    The awesome power of science fiction's alien megastructures

    The imaginary constructions of science fiction fill us with awe at their alien vastness. Which have you explored, and what was the most overwhelming?

October 2015

  • 1982, CONAN THE BARBARIAN<br>ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Film 'CONAN THE BARBARIAN' (1982) Directed By JOHN MILIUS 15 March 1982 CTB5119 Allstar/Cinetext/UNIVERSAL **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Editorial Use Only

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    Out with barbarians, in with civil servants: the new age of fantasy

  • Nasa finds evidence of flowing liquid water on Mars

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    SF discovers reason and chaos on Mars

September 2015

  • ‘Urban fantasy is a gateway to the numinous that allows us to express our darker selves’ … Pirate's Alley in New Orleans.

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    Urban fantasy fiction: there's more to it than sex with were-leopards

  • Planet Earth

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    Seek out new worlds of science fiction – there's so much happening out there

August 2015

  • A broader universe for science fiction ahead.

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    Diversity wins as the Sad Puppies lose at the Hugo awards

    The drubbing received by the reactionary lobby’s preferred nominees shows that sci-fi’s future has to be a diverse one

July 2015

  • Apocaylptic visions … Hell by Jake and Dinos Chapman.

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    Apocalypse how? Sci-fi’s rich history of post-disaster futures

  • silhouette of Sioux Native American Steven Bruguier at Sheraton Wild Horse Resort in Arizona.

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    Weird westerns that cross the genre border

June 2015

  • Great flights of fantasy ... a still from the 2000 film Dungeons and Dragons.

    Damien Walter's weird things
    The joy of reading role-playing games

    You don’t have to actually play a role-playing game for it to fire your imagination, so why don’t RPG manuals count as books?

May 2015

  • Emilia Clarke in Game of Thrones.

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    Fantasy must shake off the tyranny of the mega-novel

    The triumph of George RR Martin has made publishers greedy for multi-volume stories, but not all authors can write them – and why should they?

April 2015

  • Hugo nominee Ann Leckie.

    Books blog
    Are the Hugo nominees really the best sci-fi books of the year?

    This year’s awards have been beset by controversy, but there’s reason to believe the genre is more diverse and democratic than ever

March 2015

  • Henry VIII's crown, held by a curator at the Tower of London

    Damien Walter's weird things
    Game of Thrones and Wolf Hall: fantasy and history converge

  • Apocalypse Weird ebook titles artwork

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    Apocalypse Weird brings authors and fans a shared world of pain

February 2015

  • Maggie Q Shailene Woodley

    Phone fiction spells the end of the professional novelist

    Wattpad’s user-generated commercial fiction more than matches traditional publishing and is delivered direct to the smartphone – who needs to pay writers?

January 2015

  • Kyle Maclachlan as Paul Atreides in David Lynch's 1984 film adaptation of Dune

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    Frank Herbert’s Dune at 50 has life in it yet

    Confusing sequels, terrible prequels and poor adaptations aside, Frank Herbert’s masterpiece still stands up as the one of the truly great sci-fi novels
  • Hubble image of the Pillars of Creation

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    Creation writing: is sci-fi a 21st-century religion?

    SF provides a place to focus our awe at the wonders of the universe, just one of many functions it shares with religious beliefs
  • The writer Ann Leckie

    Damien Walter's weird things
    2014: The year when science fiction and fantasy woke up to diversity

    A year of unprecedented success for women writers was matched by a flood of new voices from the self-publishing scene

December 2014

  • A spin doctor called Gandalf...

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    Tolkien's myths are a political fantasy

    In a world built on myth, we can’t ignore the reactionary politics at the heart of Tolkien’s Middle Earth

November 2014

  • Halo

    Damien Walter's weird things
    Science fiction writers must battle video games with words

  • Lost in cyberspace … Keanu Reeves in The Matrix Reloaded

    Books blog
    Whatever happened to cyberpunk?

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