Blog Posts

  • Rondo Code

    Rondo Code

    New short story, appearing in Nature 498, 6th June 2013 Read it here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v498/n7452/full/498132a.html  

  • March to Time

    March to Time

    Hold an egg in your hand,  just like this… Time: October 2013 Muster: The Egg Market Dress: Full Uniform Crunch crunch crunch. Mmmmm, mmmmm. Crunch crunch…

  • March to Time

    March to Time

    Date: October 2013 Muster: The Egg Market Dress: Full Uniform Crunch crunch crunch. Mmmmm, mmmmm. Crunch crunch crunch.

  • Futura Science Fiction Convention

    The FUTURA science-fiction convention takes place at the Light House, Wolverhampton, 15th June I shall be taking part in panels and a Kaffee Klatsch.  Come…

  • The Last Days of Loss

    I have a picture here on my desk, drawn when I was 17. I seemed to have spent my life up to the age of…

  • Serial Fiction

    Serial Fiction

    Just in case you haven’t seen the other posts, tweets, adverts or fliers… This Easter my wife and I launched a new magazine called Aethernet.…

  • Plot and Character

    Marcus Gipps asked an interesting question on a panel at EightSquaredCon: do writers think of the plot first and then try to think of characters…

  • protected void onCreate(Bundle icicle)

    I heard a radio program a while back about found poetry. My favourite example was the message you see written out on the buttons you…

  • Eclecticism

    A while ago I bought a USB turntable to transfer my records from vinyl to MP3. I copied a few across, but gave up in the…

  • Cosmopolitan Predators!

    Cosmopolitan Predators!

    … and now for something completely different. Not a novel, not a series of short stories, but a little bit of both. I had the…

  • 500 Horse Burgers

    It’s interesting to see how the media reacts to a story.  When there’s a risk of infection, are they going to scaremonger or are they…

  • A Forest

    I attended some training this week on teaching literacy to teenagers. I was told that the key to persuasive writing was to remember A FOREST:…