Swimming with Monsters
First off, apologies to you all for the recent lack of posts. Things have been a bit hectic recently. Concerning fiction, I've an imminent short story deadline and a novel synopsis due on the same day, both of which I'm very excited about (and I hope you will be, too, when you read 'em). Can't say too much about the next novel at the moment, but keep your peepers open for an update soon.
Despite all my various goings on, I did manage to watch an absolutely awesome documentary mini-series originally shown by the BBC. It's called Sea Monsters: A Walking with Dinosaurs Trilogy and it absolutely blew me away.
Many of you who live in the UK are probably thinking, 'Eh? Sea Monsters? That was made back in 2003! You're not very up-to-date with your viewing, Steve.'
You'd be right, there. Living in Japan has quite a number of down sides, and missing great stuff like Sea Monsters is one of them. But I was fortunate enough to catch it on one of the cable channels here, and was completely blown away. I'm nuts about nature documentaries anyway, and I've always had an almost compulsive fascination for dinosaurs, monsters and the like. We're talking, here, about a boy who used to hound his parents into taking him to Loch Ness summer after summer, just on the off chance of spotting Scotland's most famous resident. Sea Monsters made me wish I was six years old again. I can only imagine the impact the series would have had on the child I once was (some would contend that I still am that child, of course!).
The series is so professionally written and directed that Nigel Marven and his team manage to immediately suspend the viewers' disbelief (something it has in common with good fiction) and take us on a journey through our planet's seven deadliest seas, each belonging to a period in Earth's distant past. It's a hell of a ride!
If you haven't seen it yet, you owe it to yourself to check Sea Monsters out. You won't be disappointed. Oh, and I'd like to give a big shout out to Nigel Marven himself, who does wonderful work supporting conservation causes such as The Gorilla Organisation. You're an inspiration, Nigel. Keep it up!
Despite all my various goings on, I did manage to watch an absolutely awesome documentary mini-series originally shown by the BBC. It's called Sea Monsters: A Walking with Dinosaurs Trilogy and it absolutely blew me away.
Many of you who live in the UK are probably thinking, 'Eh? Sea Monsters? That was made back in 2003! You're not very up-to-date with your viewing, Steve.'
You'd be right, there. Living in Japan has quite a number of down sides, and missing great stuff like Sea Monsters is one of them. But I was fortunate enough to catch it on one of the cable channels here, and was completely blown away. I'm nuts about nature documentaries anyway, and I've always had an almost compulsive fascination for dinosaurs, monsters and the like. We're talking, here, about a boy who used to hound his parents into taking him to Loch Ness summer after summer, just on the off chance of spotting Scotland's most famous resident. Sea Monsters made me wish I was six years old again. I can only imagine the impact the series would have had on the child I once was (some would contend that I still am that child, of course!).
The series is so professionally written and directed that Nigel Marven and his team manage to immediately suspend the viewers' disbelief (something it has in common with good fiction) and take us on a journey through our planet's seven deadliest seas, each belonging to a period in Earth's distant past. It's a hell of a ride!
If you haven't seen it yet, you owe it to yourself to check Sea Monsters out. You won't be disappointed. Oh, and I'd like to give a big shout out to Nigel Marven himself, who does wonderful work supporting conservation causes such as The Gorilla Organisation. You're an inspiration, Nigel. Keep it up!
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