Blog Posts

  • March to Time!

    March to Time!

    The bankers and the moneymen have been selling off our property and debts to other worlds.  Half of the city is already in the hands…

  • March to Time

    March to Time

    Make sure you don’t show my face!  My job’s on the line…   Time: October 2013 Muster: The Egg Market Dress: Full Uniform   Crunch…

  • 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…