Author: Eamonn Murphy - Writer

Eamonn Murphy has published over seventy stories in small press magazines and collected them into small, cheap volumes for posterity. They are available at all good eBook retailers and libraries. In his spare time, he writes reviews for sfcrowsnest. Retired now after years of hard labour (building sites and call centres), he lives near Bristol, England, with a nice lady, a nasty Jack Russell, an untrainable loony Labrador and some ducks. He has a BA (Hons) from the Open University but very little common sense. Find out more at eamonnmurphywriter.com.

Potus Trump

I’m currently reading a very good book –  The Kennedy Brothers – about Bobby and Jack Kennedy and their father’s links to the Mafia. There’s also lot’s of stuff about the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. under J.Edgar Hoover. All this is old news by now but it goes to show how imperfect American politics was even when the average citizen thought it was a golden age – Camelot indeed.

Just before the election there was a good program on the BBC by Rich Hall on the Presidency. He was interviewing a Clinton aid who was asked by Bill how he should handle the Monica Lewinsky crisis. His advisor said he could point out that FDR wasn’t faithful to his wife, Eisenhower wasn’t faithful to his and Kennedy certainly wasn’t faithful to his so therefore Bill was next in a long line of great Presidents.

Clinton did not think this would be a good statement.

What will Trump do with power? We’ll have to wait and see.

 

 

Poe Faced

A couple of days ago my short story Poe Faced appeared in the November issue of Perihelion SF. This wonderful magazine comes out on the 12th of every month as is available to read free online here.

New Reviews on SF Crowsnest

I have just come out of hospital with a bit of heart trouble and have some spare time while recovering. I should be writing my own stories but have instead been catching up on my reviews for sfcrowsnest for writing my own stories is just selfish but promoting others is selfless and didn’t George Harrison sing that ‘when you’ve seen beyond yourself then you may find peace of mind is waiting there.’ He did! Also, reviews are easier.

So I have promoted The Essential Doctor Strange Vol 1 to tie in with the new movies starring Benedict Cumberbatch out soon. I have publicized In the Beginning by Robert Silverberg, a collection of his 1950’s pulp work with great introductions telling about the SF writers and editors of the time. I’ve boosted The Jack Kirby Collector with a nice review and, best of all, given some publicity to The Fifth Dimension edited by J.Allen Irwine, a little magazine that costs just $1.99 electronically and contains some very good stories. I also did a piece on Treachery’s Tools, the latest book in The Imager Portfolio from L.E. Modesitt, jr but that doesn’t come out until November so the review won’t be on the site yet.

And in between I gave the duck pen a coat of B&Q forest green wood preserver to keep it waterproof for winter. Got to keep fit as well as write.