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TTA SHOP CLOSING SOON 8th Oct, 2024 The TTA Shop closes on October 26th. If you would like any of the remaining Black Static/Interzone back issues, or the previously sold out Crimewaves found at the bottom of a box recently, or a very nifty novella, please don't hesitate: there are mostly only 1-3 copies left of each. Everything is discounted, some things quite a bit. Free postage within the UK. Click the SHOP link at the top of this page, which will take you to shop.ttapress.com. [Permalink]

I used to own a copy of Perdido Street Station, but never got round to reading it (too many books, too little time), so the collection Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories is my long overdue introduction to the work of China Miéville. Originally published by Macmillan in hardback in 2015, the collection contains twenty eight stories, many of which are vignettes and more than a few that could be categorised either as horror or tangential to the genre.

At the start of 2023, Nick Cave got angry. Angry at artificial intelligence for making a mockery of his career. Songwriting has long been associated with the inherent ability to be soulful. But now one Google search will throw up endless AI capable of making lyricism universal: Audoir for song lyrics and poetry, Jarvis for banishing writer’s block, and ChatGPT for anything, everything and more. To put it plainly, the 65-year-old singer had had enough of being simulated.