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"Peake is like Dickens on acid"

BBC iPlayer - Worlds of Fantasy

Documentary series about fantasy fiction tells how, in the 1950s, JRR Tolkien and Mervyn Peake created texts that revolutionised and popularised the genre.

One day

One day and two things to discuss. No, not the McQualifications (to be supersized to PhD). Not Nokia (my least favourite phone company) buying Trolltech (makers of my least favourite popular open source widget set). No, Black Industries deciding to shut down after SELLING OUT of the eagerly awaited Warhammer 40K Dark Heresy RPG.