Podcast appearances and mentions of Aliya Whiteley

Dr Rachel Knightley speaks to her Great British Horror 5 co-contributor, award-winning author of ovels, short stories and articles (“Usually strange ones”) Aliya Whiteley. is the author of seven books of speculative fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlisted Skyward Inn and The Loosening Skin, and also The Beauty, which was shortlisted for both a Shirley Jackson award and the Otherwise Award. A tenth anniversary edition of The Beauty was published in 2024. She has written over one hundred published short stories that have appeared in magazines such as F&SF, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, The Dark, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and The Guardian, as well as in anthologies such as Unsung Stories' 2084 and Lonely Planet's Better than Fiction. Her non-fiction includes The Secret Life of Fungi, a look at how fungi are a permanent presence in her life. She also writes a regular non-fiction column on sci fi and fantasy matters for Interzone magazine. For a writing workout based on Aliya's interview with Rachel, scroll down or visit WritersGym.com to download every Writing Workout in the series.   Find out more about Aliya at https://aliyawhiteley.uk/about/   Join our mailing list at drrachelknightley.substack.com or get in touch at thewritersgym@rachelknightley.com     Writing Workout based on Aliya's interview   Warm-up: The Enormous Importance of Weird   Write down a list of your five weirdest interests or experiences.   Pick the one you're least likely to write about.   Write about it for five minutes. Just for you.   Exercise 1: Fiction, Memoir and Truth   “I'm not an expert on fungi at all, but I wanted to write something about my fascination with them. and I tried, I did like a huge amount of research and was trying to put across things in a very dry academic kind of way… so instead I wrote this very short, personal book about how I just found fun everywhere throughout my life.”   Think about an experience doing something you love. Describe the sensations in your body, physical and emotional. Show us what you feel and discover. Write another version, in third person. Change the character's gender, or location, or even their activity. Keep the emotional truth but change the literal truth.     Exercise 2: Remembering to Play     “I'm a big believer in all sorts of exercises and routines that you put around writing, it's a bit like scaffolding. It kind of takes the pressure off what it is you're trying to build. Something like working on 381, where every section of that book is 381 words long. That moves a lot of pressure of what's happening in the novel because you've applied sort of weird constraints to it.”   “Or exercises like, okay, so I have to put these five particular objects that I've just made up on the spot. They have to appear in this next short story somewhere. And then the narrative or the characters or all the other things that you would choose to worry about aren't there any longer because you're thinking about these five objects.”     Cool-down: Voices on the Bus   Choose one of Aliya's favourites:   “All the voices that are in your head and you're all on the bus together. And the writer self is the one driving the bus. One of your passengers is shouting, but passengers are allowed to shout every now and again on my buses. That's okay. It doesn't mean catastrophe ahead. t's a whole range of emotions and thoughts and processes and some, there are the ones that, you know, they're trying to warn you all the time, but you know, they're not driving the bus.” Aliya Whiteley   Who are the passengers on your bus?   What is each of them interested in?   Who's really enthusiastic?   Who panics easily?   What does each one love?   What does each one want?

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB's Patreon!Credits:Guest: Roseanna PendleburyHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughIn Memoriam:Alan Jeffrey & Cameron Estrich-WatsonReferences:Tor's The Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st CenturyJo Walton's commentary on putting together those listsAdam Roberts, Greg EganKatherine Addison's The Goblin EmperorJacqueline Carey's Kushiel's DartSeth Dickinson's The Traitor Baru CormorantC.J. Cherryh's RimrunnersMichael Ende's The Neverending StoryCarl Sagan's ContactWilliam Goldman's The Princess BrideMartin MacInnes' In AscensionSamantha Harvey's OrbitalWilliam Gibson's NeuromancerIndra Das's The Last Dragoners of BowbazarBruce Coville- Aliens Ate My Homework & Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon HatcherRobin Sloan- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Sourdough, MoonboundNerds of a FeatherWorldconCentre for Fantasy and Fantastic at the University of GlasgowChristopher Priest & Nina AllanAdrian Tchaikovsky's City of Last Chances, House of Open Wounds, Days of Shattered FaithTerry Pratchett's DiscworldThe New WeirdReaderconEmily Tesh's acceptance speechWorld Fantasy ConventionAcademic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and FantasyEasterconOctothorpeVajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright DoorsScience Fiction Awards DatabaseMarisa Crane's I Keep My Exoskeletons to MyselfMartha Wells' Murderbot seriesPaul Lynch's Prophet SongShehan Karunatilaka's Seven Moons of Maali AlmeidaMolly Templeton's “The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Entirely Understand”Colson Whitehead, Marlon JamesEmily Tesh's Some Desperate GloryNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain Gang All-StarsWole Talabi's Shigidi and the Brass Head of ObalufonCadwell Turnbull's No Gods No Monsters & We Are The CrisisS.L. Huang's The Water OutlawsMoniquill Blackgoose's To Shape a Dragon's BreathAlissa Hatman's SiftSarah Cypher's The Skin and Its GirlIsabel Waidner's Corey Fah Does Social MobilityAlaya Dawn Johnson's The Library of Broken WorldsRebecca Campbell's ArborealityVajra Chandrasekera's Rakesfallaugust clarke's Metal from HeavenJared Pechaček's The West PassageEmet North's In UniversesJohannes Anyuru's IxellesKaliane Bradley's The Ministry of TimeMadeline L'EnglePremee Mohamed- The Siege of Burning Grass, The Butcher of the Forest, & The Rider, the Ride, the Rich Man's WifeSeth Dickinson's ExordiaSofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the ChainNeon HemlockAlex Jeffer's A Mourning CoatLuna PressLorraine Wilson's The Last to DrownGreg Egan's MorphotropicSolvej Balle's On the Calculation of VolumeAbigail Nussbaum's Track ChangesJordan S. Carroll's Speculative WhitenessCamestros Felapton's DebarklePositron 2020 ReportCleveland Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, TypebarIsaac Fellman's Notes from a RegicideEmily Tesh's The IncandescentAmal El-Mohtar's The River Has RootsKatherine Addison's The Tomb of DragonsR.F. Kuang's KatabasisNatalia Theodoridou's Sour CherryYoon Ha Lee's Code & CodexOliver K. Langmead & Aliya Whiteley's City of All SeasonsNew David Mitchell?Lincoln Michel's Metallic RealmsRay Nayler's Where the Axe Is BuriedTochi Onyebuchi's Harmattan SeasonLeena Krow's Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable VoidsAmplitudes, edited by Lee MandeloScience Fiction Research AssociationPremee Mohamed, One Message RemainsStephen King writingRoseanna's “Small Press Dispatch” column at ARB

The altogether awesome author and Interzone columnist Aliya Whiteley came on the show and talked with me about her tremendous, description-defying, century-spanning story-in-a-story THREE EIGHT ONE; about how liberating it can be to write for no one but yourself; about how books change over time, and over time change us; and much, much more. // Support Interzone at Patreon to get issues packed with mind- and genre-bending fiction and non-fiction, plus early access to episodes of the show; and visit IZ Digital, IZ's free online sister zine, for more amazing stories and art. // https://interzone.press / https://interzone.digital

Sketching Details returns with Aliya Whiteley's The Beauty, a novella exploring a dystopian future where women no longer exist. Read the full review★ Support this podcast ★

Willkommen im Sprawl! Die Endzeit ist gekommen und der Tag der Abrechnung ist da. Der Aufstand der Maschinen, Krieg und Zerstörung, Hungersnöte, die globale Klimakatastrophe, ein unaufhaltsames Killervirus und… Pilze! Das Aleph meldet sich vielleicht zum letzten Mal, denn heute heißt es: Sprawl Radio – Apocalypse! In dieser Folge sprechen wir über zwei Kurzgeschichten aus der Kurzgeschichtensammlung 'Her smoke rose up forever' von James Tiptree Jr. und über die Novelle 'The Beauty' von Aliya Whiteley.Schreibt uns eine E-Mail an sprawlradio@gmx.deTwitter @sprawlradioLetterboxd: Kim_chi und gamurgaIhr mögt unseren Podcast und möchtet uns finanziell unterstützen? Wir freuen uns über kleine oder große Beträge über Paypal: paypal.me/sprawlradio oder an sprawlradio@gmx.deLiteratur:James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (1990), darin finden sich 'The Last Flight of Dr. Ain' und 'The Screwly Solutution'.Aliya Whiteley, The Beauty (2014) Allan Weiss - Apocalyptic Science FictionLaura Lam, Das ferne Licht der Sterne (2021)Verwendete Musik:Dee Yan-Key - Sloshed

We are celebrating all things spooky this month with our 31 Days of Horror Fright Bites and today we talk about “The Beauty” by Aliya Whiteley.

Growth is good, right? That's what they tell us.Our guest this week might have other ideas. Aliya Whiteley's is a novelist, short story writer and poet, whose writing is all about growth. In her strange worlds people, plants, entire worlds sprawl and mutate, but often the change is anything but wholesome. In her new collection, From the Neck Up she introduces us to disembodied heads, fleshy scarecrows, parasitical towns, dark ecology and violent agricultural rites. These stories sit on the cusp of a world gone sour, and peel back the curtain to show us how the past and the present may (ahem) grow into an awful future.Before you go thinking these are just run-of-the-mill apocalypses though, be warned and reassured that Aliya's writing is anything but normal. She blends horror, science-fiction, fantasy, the surreal and absurd and even a sprinkling of dark comedy – all transmuted into something she calls the strange.We try (and fail) to pin her stories down. We talk about how she crafts her stories, where they start and why the often end where we least expect. Along the way we take in the climate crisis, ecology and evolving change, the history of science fiction, the future of folk horror, and the legends of her native Devon. Enjoy!From the Neck Up was published by Titan Books on 14th SeptemberOther books mentioned in this episode include:The Beauty (2014), by Aliya WhiteleyMemoirs of a Survivor (1974), by Doris LessingAnnihilation (2014), by Jeff VanderMeerThe Glassy Burning Floor of Hell (2021), by Brian EvensonDay of the Triffids (1951), by John WyndhaThe Bloody Chamber (1979), by Angela CarterRebecca (1938), by Daphne du MaurierLorna Doone (1869), by R. D. Blackmore Support the show on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/TalkingScaredPodCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com.Download Novellic on Google Play or Apple Store.

There's a fungus among us — and it's one of the largest living organisms on Earth. Aliya Whiteley joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the world of fungi, from spores to mushrooms to their psychedelic properties and magical lore. Her book is called “The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries from a Hidden World.”

The Faculty is a 1998 American science fiction horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Kevin Williamson. It stars Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Famke Janssen, Piper Laurie, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Patrick, Usher Raymond, Jon Stewart, and Elijah Wood. The film was theatrically released on December 25, 1998, by Miramax Films through Dimension Films. It grossed $63.2 million and has developed a cult following since its release. Aliya Whiteley wrote an essay, "Revisiting Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty", which identifies the film's influences: Mix Invasion Of The Body Snatchers with The Thing. Throw in some Terminator, a spoonful of The Breakfast Club, and a pinch of The Stepford Wives, and you've got a big mess of a movie set in a school that's being taken over by a conformist alien, one teacher at a time. You've got the very funny, occasionally scary, quite gory, and extremely entertaining 1998 Robert Rodriguez film called The Faculty. Whiteley added, "It's all about examining the tropes of science fiction with a smart, funny angle. Half of the fun in this film is in identifying where you first came across a certain character's name or saw a particular special effect. For instance, there's a brilliant moment with a head on legs that I defy you to watch and not think of a certain John Carpenter film." Whitely concludes, "The Faculty is very definitely a big mess of a movie. But if you love all things sci-fi, it's a good mess." Keith Phipps described the nostalgic homage when he described the film as "a Kevin Williamson-scripted high-school variation on Invasion Of The Body Snatchers." Haleigh Foutch considers The Faculty as one of the most iconic 1990s teen horror movies: "Yet another win from 90s teen screenwriter in chief Kevin Williamson, The Faculty fused Williamson's knack for snappy teen drama with Robert Rodriguez's subversive camp to fantastic results. It's smart without ever taking itself too seriously and campy without ever losing its cool, drawing proudly from the tradition of classic alien invasion movies and casting them in the 90s teen tradition."

The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whitely is a weird fiction body horror novel. In an alternate universe, humans cannot maintain long term loving relationships because love is a physical sensation shed with our skin every few years.Read the full review.Get 15% off of new backpacks, notebooks, laptop cases, and apparel at the Etsy store with code SDBACKTOSCHOOL.Shop my books.Shop Books-A-Million. Shop boohooMAN. Follow.★ Support this podcast ★

Your hosts, Scott and Tobie, get down in the dirt and see whats growing with this weeks book "The Beauty" by Aliya Whiteley, kick back and enjoy! Send us your thoughts, requests and love to Dogearedpagecafe@gmail.com

Nico and Ben talk perilous poisons and chaotic chemicals as their guest Aliya Whiteley, writer of over 100 short stories, helps them take on the prompt "Toxic".Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thetinybookcase)

Space. The final frontier. An empty, endless expanse of nothing? Or teeming with life?But do we really need to look beyond the confines of our world to find loneliness? We are currently fighting a pandemic, and in its wake, a loneliness epidemic. Despite our constant striving for companionship, it could be said that to be […] The post Loneliness in science fiction with Aliya Whiteley first appeared on Breaking the Glass Slipper.

Space. The final frontier. An empty, endless expanse of nothing? Or teeming with life?But do we really need to look beyond the confines of our world to find loneliness? We are currently fighting a pandemic, and in its wake, a loneliness epidemic. Despite our constant striving for companionship, it could be said that to be […] The post Loneliness in science fiction with Aliya Whiteley first appeared on Breaking the Glass Slipper.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic opens in Mexico City with socialite Noemi Taboada uncharacteristically leaving a party early because of a summons from her father. Noemi isn't really interested in following other people's directions. She yearns to strike out on her own, make her own choices, and continue her education: three things her father doesn't approve of. Thinking her father means to reprimand her for something, she is instead shocked when he shows her a letter from her recently married cousin who lives in a remote area near the town El Triunfo in a manor house called High Place. Catalina's letter claims that her husband, Virgil Doyle, is poisoning her and won't let her leave. She also claims to see ghosts coming out of the walls and believes she is losing track of time. Noemi's father, who was Catalina's guardian, had driven away a man Catalina had loved in favor of her waiting for a better, richer match. Catalina then married Doyle so quickly that Mr. Taboada could never properly discern the suitor's social position. Noemi's father may or may not feel some guilt over being so overbearing to Catalina, but he quickly decides that Catalina is hysterical and needs psychiatric treatment. He wants Noemi to scope out the situation and get Catalina help, if possible. Noemi knows Catalina is trapped between Doyle's wishes as her husband and Mr. Taboada's previous control as her guardian. But her father promises Noemi that she can pursue graduate study if she completes the mission. She then begins her journey to the heart of High Place, during which she will learn that Catalina's letter didn't even scratch the surface of the depravity and Gothic horrors the house, and the family within it, contain.       Recommended this episode: Aliya Whiteley's THE BEAUTY Please rate and review us, or better yet, tell a friend.  Our social media is @MonsterWrote on Twitter and Instagram. Our email is monsterwrote@gmail.com. This episode was produced and researched by Lisa and Mel. Theme music is “Misconception” by Nicolas Gasparini. 

Tornano i Libri a Colacione, la rubrica di Tutto Esaurito su Radio 105! Questa settimana: La Bellezza di Aliya Whiteley e Senza offesa, fai schifo di Ludovica Scarpa.→ Leggi? Ti aspetto su BookBlister! http://www.bookblister.com → Scrivi? Ti aspetto su https://www.berettamazzotta.it

Tornano i Libri a Colacione, la rubrica di Tutto Esaurito su Radio 105! Questa settimana: La Bellezza di Aliya Whiteley e Senza offesa, fai schifo di Ludovica Scarpa.→ Leggi? Ti aspetto su BookBlister! http://www.bookblister.com → Scrivi? Ti aspetto su https://www.berettamazzotta.it

Tornano i Libri a Colacione, la rubrica di Tutto Esaurito su Radio 105! Questa settimana: La Bellezza di Aliya Whiteley e Senza offesa, fai schifo di Ludovica Scarpa. → Leggi? Ti aspetto su BookBlister! http://www.bookblister.com → Scrivi? Ti aspetto su https://www.berettamazzotta.it

Welcome to the first episode of the Cakes & Ale Book Club! Every month we will be bringing you a mix of discussions and interviews about recent genre fiction we've been reading, and we're kicking things off in style with The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley, published by Unsung Stories. We will be discussing this wonderful book, with comments from listeners who have been reading with us this month, followed by a interview with Aliya Whiteley about her work and career.The Loosening Skin is set in a world where, every seven years, people shed their skin - and with it shed aspects of their personality, even their love for one another. Those emotions and memories remain bound up in the old skin, to be kept, or burned, or sold. Rose Allington, a former celebrity bodyguard whose relationship with client-turned-lover Max Black ended abruptly with her last moult, falls back into his world when his old skins are stolen and he doesn't know who else to trust to get them back. But as the world around her turns to medication to keep their skin from ever shedding again, Rose is determined to be true to herself - even when that means leaving behind everything she used to be.Time for Cakes and Ale, a podcast featuring geeky ramblings with Becks & Eeson, and also home to "Time for Cherry Pie and Coffee", a Twin Peaks podcast, and "The Tally Ho", a Prisoner podcast.Follow us on Twitter @TFCAALike us on FacebookVisit our Website See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“It’s about getting on the bus…” Norm and author Aliya Whiteley talk double decker busses, double decker tacos, embracing weirdness for what it is and reinventing yourself. They also get into the in’s and out’s of the first ever Drabblecast People’s Choice Award Winner for “Best Story” back in 2007, for this “Director’s Cut: Jelly […] The post Drabblecast Director’s Cut: Jelly Park appeared first on The Drabblecast.

Drabbleclassics is a fan-hosted monthly series that features fan-picked stories from the Drabblecast archives. Our Drabbleclassics host this time around is Jen Fisher, who presents author Aliya Whiteley’s take on mindless marketing, the grunge rock anti-establishment, and the struggles of a young couple trying to fight a bizarre takeover, in her story “Go Beep.” Oh, […] The post Drabbleclassics 27 – Go Beep (173) appeared first on The Drabblecast.

Today, The Drabblecast brings you “Day of the Dog” by Aliya Whiteley. We’ve still got a few bones to pick with our dog-eat-dog micro theme. So if you enjoy last week’s tail, here’s another one to sniff you nose at (and, yes, a few more incollarable puns). Aliya Whiteley is a writer of dark tales […] The post Drabblecast 391 – Day of The Dog appeared first on The Drabblecast.

What is speculative fiction and what can it offer the world? Aliya Whiteley’s work has been described as “stark, poetic and forthright”, and certainly not easily classified. We talk to her about how established ideas of gender can be challenged, the questions she explores in her fiction, the relationship her books have to the natural […]

On Episode 302 of Trick or Treat Radio we head to South Korea and visit with their greatest hero with the Netflix exclusive film, Psychokinesis. This is the latest film from Yeon Sango-ho, director of the overwhelming treat, Train to Busan. We also bring back the Double Tap segment and tell you all about some of the media we’ve been digging lately. Some of our listeners contribute their Double Tap recommendations as well! In addition, we talk about MonsterZero’s potential foray into filmmaking, Childish Gambino’s latest video, “This is America”, and the difficulty in this day and age of “making it” with your art. So pull the plug on your career, power up your psychic inertial dampeners and strap on for the world’s most dangerous talk radio show! Stuff we talk about: AJPW Champions Carnival, “pulling the plug”, The Five Hossmen Wrestling Podcast, MonsterZero’s foray into filmmaking?, Alex Proyas, The Crow, Dark City, The Big Scary Monster Hunts at Midnight, art gatekeeping, suffering for your art, Brian Paulin, Morbid Vision Films, Jared Leto, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Childish Gambino, the “This is America” video, Donald Glover, Mr. Plow, Ares fixing Dynamo’s house, Ares’ caulk, Victor Infante, Black Cat Anthems for Red Headed January Girls, the grooming habits of our pets, fucking ticks, alligator story, racism in Boston, Germany, Yeon Sang-ho, Train to Busan, Seoul Station, Jung Yu-mi, Ryu Seung-ryong, Dragon Ball Z, the bumbling hero stereotype, The Greatest American Hero, John Travolta, Phenomena, Michael, Powder, Les Miserables, Nekromatik, Russell Brand, Kon-El, riot or siege?, The South Korean William Katt, The Host, Oldboy, Irish walking cap or Skally cap, Revenge, 8in8, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman, Ben Folds, Blood and Bone, Michael Jai White, Arrow Video’s Basket Case 4K Restoration, Frank Henenlotter, Kevin Van Hentenryck, Transformers, Psychic Inertial Dampeners, Springer, Lost Planet, triple changers, YouTube, Everything Wrong With, Cinemasins, How It Should Have Ended, Graphic Novels vs. Trade Paperbacks, Revenge of the Living Monolith, Bill Hicks’ a Sane Man, Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Cobra Kai, William Zabka, Ralph Macchio, A Perfect Circle, The Creepy Podcast, Survive This!! Dark Places and Demogorgons, Black Magick, Greg Rucka, Nicola Scott, The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley, The Dark Magazine, Urban Shadows, Shudder, Repulsion, Roman Polanski, and Blood Incantation. Send Email/Voicemail: podcast@trickortreatradio.com Visit our website: http://trickortreatradio.com Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzK FB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradio Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheDeadites Facebook: http://facebook.com/TheDeadites YouTube: http://youtube.com/TheDeaditesTV Instagram: http://instagram.com/TheDeadites Buy our music on Bandcamp: http://thedeadites.bandcamp.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradio)

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Aliya Whiteley's "The Tears of a Building Surveyor, and Other Stories." You can read the full text of the story here.

Bienvenidos a un nuevo capítulo del podcast de los VerdHugos.En esa ocasión nos centraremos en los nominados a varios premios de género, como son los Hugos (razón de ser de este podcast), los Nébula y los Locus:(0h): hablamos sobre los Hugo (0h : 20m) : comentamos un poco el proyecto de Insólita Editorial(0h : 40m) : desvelamos nuestro plan ya-no-tan-secreto de entrevistar a Álvaro Zinos-Amaro(0h : 54m) : ¡oferta! Se cambian tebeos por cachopos(0h : 58m) : nos metemos a críticos de cine porque somos así de polivalentes(1h : 19m) : a fondo con los Nébula(1h : 45m) : hablamos sobre algunas categorías de los Locus porque 50 libros son demasiados hasta para nosotros(2h : 11m) : recomendacionesRecomendacionesMiquel CodonyArañas de Marte de Guillem López.Josep Maria OriolThe Arrival of Missives de Aliya WhiteleyArmando SaldañaThe Erstwhile de Brain Catling Elías CombarroSix Wakes de Mur LaffertyLeticia LaraToo Like the Lightning de Ada Palmer. BSOEpic Mountain Goat Related Music by Son of Robot is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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"Sherlock Holmes may be a genius, but his staff training programme leaves a lot to be desired." Aliya Whiteley considers what lessons big brands in the digital age can pick up from some literary classics…

The semantic web hasn't happened in a rush, or with fanfare, but the beginnings of semantic interoperability are here, with hashtags and Apple's Siri leading the way. Data management expert Aliya Whiteley looks at what this means for brands…

The Drabblecast brings you “Go Beep” by Aliya Whiteley. Aliya Whiteley is a writer of dark tales in science fiction and fantasy, and was the winner of the Drabblecast People's Choice award for Jelly Park! She has also been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson, BSFA, and British Fantasy Society Awards. Story Excerpt: I'm a fan […]

Drabblecast #43 presents “Jelly Park“ by Aliya Whiteley. In consideration of the holidays, Norm begins to see a common theme to this Drabblecast season: celebrating relationships. Take, for example, the relationship between the holidays and a pile of extremely rare rhinoceros dung. Four piles, actually. All collected by conservationists and auctioned on E-bay to raise […]