The 200th post on this blog is an early piece of new year’s resolution-satisfaction. I promised myself that in 2016 I would finally compile and publish a complete index of my series of interviews with SFF bloggers and other genre people that concluded six months ago. At last, links to all 102 of them are set out… Continue reading SFF Interview Index
Author: S.C. Flynn
Poet. The Colour of Extinction (Renard Press, October 2024). An Ocean Called Hope (May 2025).
SCy-Fy: 2015 in review
Happy New Year, everyone! 2015 was the first full year of this blog. The raw stats say 120 posts and 21,000 hits: Click here to see the complete report. This was a year of two very different halves, though. Most of those posts and hits came in the first half, when I was still living in… Continue reading SCy-Fy: 2015 in review
Resolution Solution
The year is nearly over, but there is still time to carry out a resolution for 2015. I have previously published various lists of links to science fiction and fantasy blogs that I think would be of interest to fans. It has been a year (December 2014) since I published such a list, so there… Continue reading Resolution Solution
A (Virtual) Room of One’s Own
The link post, in which I list some sites that I think might be interesting to other people, used to be a regular feature here on SCy-Fy. However, it has been many months since I posted one (you can find the old ones in the “SFF Links” tab in the menu), so I am today starting another series… Continue reading A (Virtual) Room of One’s Own
Coming Out of the Library
Lynn of Lynn’s Books made a request of me a few days ago: “…as you’ve interviewed so may people, it would be interesting to read a few facts about the interviewer!” Thanks Lynn, for encouraging me to emerge from my library for a few moments! Here goes: I was born in a small town in Australia… Continue reading Coming Out of the Library
SF Masterworks: The First 24
Here at SCy-Fy, we don’t often sit in judgement on books (not publicly, anyway); we ask a lot of questions and then some more. Today will be different. The reason is that I have just finished reading the first 24 books in Gollancz’s SF Masterworks series. This is a goal I have had for some… Continue reading SF Masterworks: The First 24
Life Without my Library
Being away from my library due to my day job has made me nostalgic, I guess. After a lot of work, I have finally loaded the books in my library on to Goodreads, with ratings for each one. A picture paints a thousand books – actually, 1,643 of them, according to Goodreads. I think I must also be… Continue reading Life Without my Library
102 Genre Interviews
Hi everybody. As anticipated, my recent move from Italy to Dublin to take up a demanding new day job has greatly cut down my blogging activity. But there’s a post that I simply must write. Anyone who is familiar with my blog will know that from December 2014 to July 2015, I published a large… Continue reading 102 Genre Interviews
What Price, Your Critical Agency?
Critic Jonathan McCalmont refers to my series of interviews with genre people in this piece that takes a serious look at reviewing and social media.
Back to the Land of my (great-great-great-grand) Fathers
There are big changes underway here at SCy-Fy. To take up a new day job I have just moved countries, from Italy to Ireland. My family left Ireland four generations and 160 years ago and I am the first to return. To celebrate this, the look of the blog has changed from Italian azzurro to… Continue reading Back to the Land of my (great-great-great-grand) Fathers
Stuart C Flynn 