Adrian Graham

Journal

December – The Killer, notes
November – End Times, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism (A Warning to the Global Middle Class), notes
October – The Coming Wave, The Third Wave, Rushing to Paradise, Hello America
September – Future Shock, when science fiction predicts the future, the four phases of science fiction, thoughts on the unwritten contract between the writer and reader, notes
August – 65 (a quick story analysis), Saudi Arabia’s Neom project, notes
July – Demon Copperhead, The Glass Pearls, notes
June – Trust, as science fiction becomes fact, notes
May – ChatGPT on writing, The Hunger, notes
April – Diner, notes
March – The Secret History, notes
February – Bullshit Jobs, notes
January – Under the Banner of Heaven, notes

December – Notes
May – Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War, reading stories to a child, after the pandemic
February – Earth Abides, working out the plot of a new novel, The Book of Boba Fett
January – The Stand

December – Space travel for billionaires, what will cities of the future look like? notes
November – The Second Sleep, James Clavell’s historical fiction, notes
October – The Last Man, Ice, Mockingbird, Black No More, notes
September – J G Ballard’s early novels, Miracles of Life, John Brunner’s science fiction, Make Room! Make Room!, how many eyes should a banana have?
August – The politics of speculative fiction, notes
July – Dune, notes
June – Dune film trailer, notes
May – Speculative fiction (climate change, and future dystopias), notes
April – The Kid Detective, the five stages of British science fiction and fantasy, how much does the world really change, notes
March – Oblivion, Klara and the Sun, the opening paragraph, notes
February – Mank, some thoughts about the editing process, notes
January – Ender’s Game, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Ipcress File, American stories, notes

December – Raised by Wolves, American War, Doggerland, notes
July – Land of the Dead, notes
June 2020 – Under the Silver Lake, The Myth of the American Sleepover, notes
May – Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels, The Hunger Games, notes
April – A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, The Wall, notes
March – Monos, Groupthink, the shock ending, notes

August – The Virgin Suicides, notes
February – The human extinction story, Planet of the Apes, the space opera, Blast of Silence, The Dark Room, notes
January – The Long Good Friday, the second person viewpoint, Rising Sun, Wonder Boys, Black Rain

December – Killing Commendatore
November – The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, the Christmas story
October – Texasville, Hereditary
September – Herzog & Ravelstein, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, notes
August – Get Out
July – Monsters and robots
March – Blade Runner
February – Altered Carbon, notes
January – Last Year in Marienbad, notes

November – The Outer Limits, notes
October – Bad Day at Black Rock vs The Last Picture Show, notes
September – Badlands, Mad Men vs Breaking Bad, notes
August – Annihilation, the post-apocalyptic story, notes
July – The swimming pool in films,The Paris Review interviews, notes
June – Jaws vs Predator, classical traditional action and liberal hero, Back to the Future, Manchester by the Sea vs Silver Linings Playbook
May – Norwegian Wood, Lawnmower Man
April – Rushmore vs Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Third Man vs The Long Goodbye, films (time and space)
March – A Boy and His Dog, Telefon
February – The Door in the Floor vs The Ice Storm, procrastination tips, notes

November – Prince of the City, Where Eagles Dare vs Attack
September – The military in storytelling, Southern Comfort, Profit, conspiracy stories
August – Seconds, Stranger Things, Planet Earth, Mulholland Drive
July – Jetlag
May – Sharkey’s Machine, The Arrangement
February – Capricorn One vs The Truman Show, Piccadilly
January – Seraphim Falls vs The Revenant, the insomnia story, social media