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REVIEWS : Books, films, etc. What I thought & why you might like them.

  • MONSTERA by Delilah S. Dawson (BOOK REVIEW)

    MONSTERA by Delilah S. Dawson (BOOK REVIEW)

    Anyone who has ever had a crush on another person cannot help but feel for Lucy and Saskia as they pick their way through the pitfalls and uncertainties of first love while also trying to evade the uncanny spectres that haunt their pasts and the more mundane villainy stalking their present.

REPORTS: Places I’ve been & events that I’ve seen.

  • DOORS INTO THE DARK: A Day of Weird Fiction (CONFERENCE REPORT 26/9/2026)

    DOORS INTO THE DARK: A Day of Weird Fiction (CONFERENCE REPORT 26/9/2026)

    On a sunny September Saturday I headed down for a first visit to the still very fresh new Seamus Heaney Centre on University Street in Belfast for a day of exploring multiple facets of weird fiction. I took phone notes on the panels I attended and they form the basis of this rather long post,

REVEALS: Interviews, writing, covers & other news.

RANTS: This is where I, or the books I read, get spicily political!

  • Who should be banned from using social media?

    Who should be banned from using social media?

    This post is inspired by my reading of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier and it will – in part – be a review of that book. The book was first published in 2018 in the midst of Trump 1.0 but at a time before Musk took over…

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to my blogsite of speculative speculations, where I share some thoughts and experiences on aspects of fantasy, science fiction and the connections and parallels that can be drawn with our everyday real world.

Matthew (T.O.) Munro

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