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Author Archives: DKT
David Thorpe: 2nd December 1954 to 25th April 2024
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of the author and environmentalist David Thorpe. He died peacefully in his sleep early on Thursday 25th April in Barcelona. David was a lifelong lover of nature and staunch environmentalist. … Continue reading
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Three Jacks. Who are they?
Three Jacks. Who are they? Read my latest blog post to find out……..https://open.substack.com/pub/davidthorpe/p/working-title-three-jacks?r=6kekv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Review my new book and get a sneak preview
Marvel’s world-famous Cinematic Universe is set in an alternate reality called Earth 616. My new book, The Secret Origin of Earth 616, reveals how it came to be. I always wanted to be a writer for Marvel comics when I … Continue reading
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They didn’t want me to include this…
Hi, dear reader I know I said in previous posts that my book The Secret Origin of Earth 616 would be out by now. But I had a “hold” put on it by Marvel. They wanted their name removed from … Continue reading
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A Marvel secret origin: where the films are set
Just over 30 minutes into the movie Spider-Man: Far From Home, Mysterio tells Spider-Man that we live in a multiverse. “This is Earth dimension 616. I’m from Earth 833.” Hoo boy, as Stan Lee used to say. I got a … Continue reading
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The Secret Origin of Marvel’s Earth-616 (the Marvel Cinematic Universe)
I been working or a book about Marvel’s Earth 616. The working title is The Secret Origin of Marvel’s Earth-616 (the Marvel Cinematic Universe) or Alternate Universes and Why To Make Them. You can buy it here. Here is the … Continue reading
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How to write climate fiction!
This is the third in a series of three posts about climate fiction. You can find the first here and the second here. If a citizen living in pre-20th century Britain were to be told that in the future they … Continue reading
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The history of the future
This is number two in a series of three blog posts about climate fiction around the following discussion to be held at the Life Centre, Newcastle on 14 September 2022: https://www.life.org.uk/events/cli-fi. Read the first post here. Humanity – and I … Continue reading
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Climate change is here. It’s the job of writers to give us hope.
I’m David Thorpe, a writer of climate fiction amongst other things, including lots of academic books and articles on climate change, but I’m probably best known for my work for Marvel comics. I wrote a comic book in 1990 for … Continue reading
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