Author Archives: Pete

Rejections

Rejection page updated again today.

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Rejected again

Rejection page updated today.

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Updates to the site

The pending submissions page and the 2011 reading list page are both updated. Most of my online activity is Twitter-based: @peterhodges, but keep watching this space for new posts.

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Fringe Gets Awesome Again

Whoa. Seriously, whoa.

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Gardening vs. Plotting

There’s always been an insatiable amount of curiosity about writers and their methods. It’s one of the first questions asked of an author during an interview. Whether it makes the final cut or not depends greatly on the answer, and … Continue reading

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Thermal Discouragement Beams

I’ll admit, I was not a huge fan of the first Portal. I thought it was clever, but if you can’t shoot it, slice it, loot it, or blow it up, I lose interest in it pretty fast. The game … Continue reading

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Judgement Day

In case anyone was wondering, today is the day SkyNet achieves self-awareness, which means that we have two days until Judgement Day and the rise of the machines. Long live the resistance!

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The Very Definition of Epic

Link courtesy of GK.

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Source Code

Believe the reviews, friends, this is the best movie of the year so far (and Lord knows I’ve seen all of them with a science fiction/fantasy bent). Jake Gyllenhall plays Captain Colter Stevens, a downed helicopter pilot whose last memory … Continue reading

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Game of Thrones – Live Blog

SPOILER WARNING! 9:05 PM – Language, Violence, Adult Content, Nudity – How can this be bad? 9:07 PM – The wall is really impressive. Nice special effects. 9:08 PM – Did anyone else get the sense that the  Night’s Watch … Continue reading

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