A work in progress…
Working on the superhero novella. I would describe the story as ‘Cronenberg’s Watchmen do Ghostbusters in South London’
Jason Isaacs was in one of my plays…
It was a BBC movie in the early 90s; this is a pic of us looking at something technical…
Review of ‘Dreadnought: Nemesis’ by April Daniels
Dreadnought: Nemesis is one of my favourite young adult novels. There is a great line early in the book about how if you’re no good at being a boy, it’s beaten into you until you either comply or have the good grace to kill yourself. It’s a long time since I was a boy, but that […]
Jim Burns cover art for ‘The Martian Quartet’ (NewCon Press)
Every six months or so, NewCon Press publishes four SFF novellas around a particular theme. The publisher then commissions a single piece of artwork that expresses an element of each story in a single panel or image. The panels are then lettered and branded to create covers, and the four books are sold as a […]
Review of ‘The Promise of the Child’ by Tom Toner
There is a complex, even thrillerish galactic conspiracy plot at the heart of Tom Toner’s debut science fantasy novel, but that’s not really why you read it. Indeed, the threads of that plot are so disparate and spread out over so many years (and light years) that the reader simply has to accept what is […]
Review of ‘Starborn’ by Lucy Hounsom
We’ve all been there. Your village relies on an ancient Relic no one understands but which the economy relies on anyway, like Bitcoin. At the annual ritual in which the Relic ascribes professions and even names to the young people of the village, someone breaks the Relic and that someone is you. Then the sky […]
Super Relaxed Fantasy Club 30.01.18
Super Relaxed Fantasy Club is one of my favourite things. It’s a monthly meet-up with fans of fantasy and science fiction in London. Starting some years back in the foyer of the Royal Festival Hall, it then moved to the rooftop entertaining space of a hotel near King’s Cross, spent time in that bunker-with-bar-and-books space […]
BSFA: Remembering Brian Aldiss
As well as being one of the great science fiction writers, Brian Aldiss was also the first ever member of the British Science Fiction Association. Following Brian’s death last year there was a special event last night at the monthly BSFA meeting in London, which included readings of his work and recollections of the man […]
The Conclusion of the Book of the New Sun
Originally posted on the Little Red Reviewer:
So, I finally finished The Citadel of the Autarch, the 4th book in Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun. The days after I finished felt like going through tangential stages of grief. First, I was mad “that’s how it ends!? I’ve got to read the entire…
Life in Sci-Fi 