Whimsy

For those of you still scratching your heads over Friday’s anagrams (or, indeed, over why allegedly grown adults would spend their time creating such a thing), here are the answers: Mash the Demon! Die! is […]

In what future SF historians will no doubt refer to, Spinal Tap-style, as ‘the saddest of all posts‘, we have decided to mark the last Friday of the first month of 2013 with a series […]

It’s been a while since we’ve had any levity on the blog, and since today is the end of the first full working week of the year, I think we all deserve a moment of […]

No man is an island, Entire of itself John Donne The internet is, among many other things, an ecosystem.  No site exists in isolation; articles are written, responses posted, rebuttals made, points elaborated upon, and […]

So: is the pope an SF fan? Yes. Yes, he is. It was announced today that Pope Benedict XVI has opened a personal Twitter account and was to tweet under the name @pontifex. Now, we […]

Found on a pirate site and presented without comment: Oh, alright, just one comment, then: Dude, do you think you might have your content filter bar set just a little low . . . ?

Once a day, this week, we’ve been tweeting the opening lines to SF Gateway books.  In case you missed them, they were: Monday: Edward – you must come back to the Lodge. Please don’t delay […]

OK, we admit it: it’s not that Skyfall this post is about. It’s this one by the late, great Harry Harrison: The largest spaceship ever made is hurtling overhead, falling. Six people are trapped inside […]

  Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam Lovely Spam Wonderful Spam Superlative Spam . . . So, every day when we log in to the Gateway blog, we find that we’re the recipient […]

So, it’s Friday again. Another working week successfully negotiated and time to begin to wind down for the weekend and some quality classic SF reading. And just to make it clear – in case anybody […]

Back by popular demand!  Well . . . all right . . . back because we’re bored and needed something to kill time on a Friday . . . the return of the SF Gateway […]

As it’s Friday, the weekend is beckoning and the sun is even shining (at least it is at Gollancz Towers), we thought it was time to have a little fun. And what’s more fun than […]