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Jump 10 years into the war as rumoured, no more writing yourself into a corner trying to create a starting point but feeling the need for the cheap shock of killing characters.

Mark Lawrence is a completely different beast to the others. Much like Daily Mail columnists compared to historical events, so much grimdark is mystery from a modern perspective. The characters may as well complain about the lack of Amazon prime.

Charlie Higson's The Enemy series. Traditional disaster wipes out everyone over 14(?) To the day, with the dead becoming zombies. Very well written, despite the geography based on tube maps - Tower of London to St Paul's is hopping distance.

Baby Driver. Dragged a bit at the end, and the music was a bit predictable, but over all a lot of fun.

I spend my days as an international VAT/Import accountant for a Japanese multinational. I'm not sure how, why, or what I did wrong in a previous life. But writing doesn't come anywhere to the level of paralyzing self doubt of my day job.

Atmospheric contamination. Knocks 20 years of your life, a human wouldn't notice post apocalypse, but an engine?

And yet you still get stuck behind someone who has obviously never seen one before and is convinced pressing the wrong button will start WW3.

It's Yorkshire, if the zombie apocalypse was going to start anywhere it would be Yorkshire. If only so the undead would attack Bradford and decide humanity had suffered enough.

Post apocalyptic is my favourite genre. Either from a well written analysis of how humanity would develop afterwards, all the way through to terrible self published author insert zombie fiction. Though for different reasons.

Sigh. Yes, that is exactly what I said. If only I had actually typed that.

Roman rip-off that never almost never has Centurions or Optio's. I've always preferred the Soviet Shock or Assault labels for heavy divisions/armies.

It would never live up to the expectations of the die hard fans, who in the echo chamber of the internet have turned Firefly into the greatest show ever. And so unless it met these expectations the bile would be truly stunning. I'm not sure the vast majority of potential viewers would care and...

The Younglings who get sent out with Jedi commanders because cartoons need a wisecracking kid in them, beyond being trained in combat as pretty much as soon as they join the temple.

The hero has always been capable, beyond actually needing a skill/knowledge, they simply need the motivation to act. Why die to defend the Hamsters of cuteness when all harmsters are always gits, until the Chinchilla you love suffers eternal damnation on behalf of a hamster convict. Do you...

That is a big turn off for me in modern fantasy. Everyone simply knows that they have terrible lives that the situation is wrong and that things should be better, but from a 21st Century perspective. Social and economic injustice through a corrupt patriachal society that can be overcome by a...

Smart-arse answer - The Light Side has heavily indoctrinated child soldiers. Whilst good and bad tend to be relative the side with child soliders, sorry younglings, is rarely on the side of angels. My knowledge is probably seriously out of date, but there is a difference between Sith and...

The BBC do seem to be really wierd about success. It's not enough to make a critically acclaimed show that gets good viewing figures, it almost has to be one or the other. High viewing figures are good but it means the plebs are watching it rather than a more cultured audiance. Critically...

Can't say I blame him. It seems one of those series that reserve a lot of time and require his availability, making it difficult to work around and do other projects, without actually requiring his presence. There there has been the...quality of certain episodes.

I quite like a bit of (distant) post apocalypse in my fantasy, lost hi-tech soyou're never sure where the border with magic might lie. Much like Mark Lawrences work.

I'd like to see books written as historical fiction with some fantasy elements, by and large fantasy comes across as very modern mindsets with fantasy elements - The general unpleasantness of life in different time periods never comes across that well, the casual violence, existing in a barely...