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Daren Callow

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Ever since he got a Highly Commended sci-fi story published by the Puffin Club (Circa. 1979) Daren has been convinced that he can write decent stories. Occasionally there is some proof of that.

He also dabbles with short plays, general fiction, horror and non-fiction writing in genres from steampunk to information technology.

In 2017 he published his first collection of steampunk short stories – Tales Of New Albion volume 1 and in 2019 he published volume 2. He is also a contributor to number of collections of short horror stories andis currently working on a collection of varied sci-fi short stories.

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	A is for Aliens by P.J. Blakey-Novis (Goodreads Author), Daren Callow (Goodreads Author), Theresa Jacobs (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Earth (Elements of Horror #1) by Theresa Jacobs (Goodreads Author), Jaq D. Hawkins, Monster Smith 4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire (Elements of Horror #3) by P.J. Blakey-Novis (Goodreads Author), Scott Donnelly (Goodreads Author), R.C. Rumple (Goodreads Author) 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Air (Elements of Horror #2) by Jaq D. Hawkins, Daren Callow (Goodreads Author), Dale Parnell (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Water (Elements of Horror #4) by P.J. Blakey-Novis (Goodreads Author), Lee Smart, Theresa Jacobs (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of New Albion: A Collection of Steampunk Short Stories by Daren Callow (Goodreads Author), Bartholomew Morris (Illustrator) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of New Albion - Volume 2 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Delta Quadrant 1: A Sci-Fi Collection by Daren Callow (Goodreads Author), Ben Henderson (Illustrator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Space Between The Carbon: A Delta Quadrant Story 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Big War Movie Themes - 5) The Longest Day (1962)

Theme tune: Really oddly there is absolutely no music whatsoever in this film! Except for the duh, duh, duh, dah - from Beethoven's fifth, I believe. Which represents the letter V (in morse code . . . _ ). The theme tune - The Longest Day - finally appears at the very end, not sure if a certain "Jarre" might have been involved in the music, but the credited artist (on the album) is Read more of this blog post »

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Alan Turing: The Enigma

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Really enjoyed this. And it doesn't out stay it's welcome. So it goes. ...more
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Still one of the best, most irreverent history books ever written. A huge influence on my writing.
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