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BLOG POST: On lists, guides and the power of 'curation', with reference to the Guardian 100 best novels, The Psychotronic Encyclopaedia of Film and Moviedrome.
https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/05/17/lists-curation-and-the-power-of-brevity/
BLOG POST: The tenth and final 'story by story' post is about how I wrote 'The Lost Seconds' which wraps up my latest collection.
BLOG POST: How I wrote 'Damnatio Memoriae', the eighth story in my new collection 'Thin Places in Hard Concrete'. It also explains why I'm in the habit of collecting names from headstones.
BLOG POST: How I wrote 'The Dead Spot'; why it's only as long as it needs to be (HT Owen Booth); and how it was influenced by decades of fretting about the potential for civil war.
BLOG POST: Something I needed to get out of my system about how Mozart and Bach kept popping up in conversations about computing and in sci-fi in the 1970s and 1980s. If you can think of other examples of This Sort of Thing, let me know.
https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/05/04/mozart-in-mirrorshades-bach-to-the-future/
Your company is a MACHINE for turning MEETINGS into REPORTS. Too bad no one reads those reports.
You also have dashboards, which one might skim before doing what they were gonna do anyway.
Tech orgs have all the data in the world, but have lost the ability to read it, understand it, or act on it.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-illiterate-organization
BLOG POST: How I wrote 'The Presence Chamber', the sixth story in my new collection of weird stories. It includes an admission that I thought Andy Partridge might have invented Nonsuch Palace as one of his clever little bits.
The sixth story in my new collection, Thin Places in Hard Concrete, was inspired by reading about Henry VIII’s colossal Nonsuch Palace. I first learned about Nonsuch from the 1945 book British Arch…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@RayNewman/116492463985499713
I’m more than halfway through Ray’s Thin Places In Hard Concrete. I’m consciously trying to space it out rather than just reading them all at once.
It really is a brilliant collection and is quickly becoming my favourite of his three so far. There’s an excellent atmosphere to the stories, as well as formal experiments and dark humour.
Ray is posting notes on each story on his blog, for those of you who like DVD commentaries.
Maxim Peter Griffin
annaecook
Pavel A. Samsonov
Nick