There IS Life on Mars – and they don’t want us!
Life on Mars: The Vikings are coming by HUGH DUNCAN Did you know that something or someone was sabotaging space missions to Mars especially in the 20th century? Since 1960 when Russia’s Mars 1M was supposed to do a flyby of the red planet there have been 28 failures...
Artwork attempts by Geoff Nelder
Most of these are from 50+ years ago in watercolour and acrylic with some poster paints. I really should get back to dabbling again–so therapeutic. ...Using side stories for #promotion
Using side stories to help promote a main novel. This isn’t the same as when readers of a novel urges you to write a sequel. A side story might be in the same time line and characters and settings might be referenced but it shouldn’t depend on the main...Why am I answering the door to myself?
What if you open your front door to find yourself staring back? Not a long lost identical twin but a kind of doppelganger intent on doing you harm and taking your place. But why? How to keep them out of your house? Who would believe you’re the real you? Thanks...X-rays from sticky tape!
Interesting science fact of the week. Sellotape can generate X-Rays. Apparently when sticky tape is peeled off (not Elastoplast on a cut finger, but the tape you use to wrap my presents with) X-Rays can be produced. Known as triboluminescence and seen in the form of...
#Tsunami Risks for me
One snag I knew about before moving from Chester to Trafford in Greater Manchester is that I’ve only raised my house by 5 metres. My Chester house was at 17m above sea level. My Flixton house is at 22m asl. Hopeless for long term global warming and for tsunamis. If...Best #bizarro fiction
I blogged Ira Nayman’s BAD ACTORS this Autumn but I didn’t leave a review from my own reading. Here it is. Hang on to your hats. Published in October 2021 by Elsewhen Press Strap yourself in when reading this hilarious, bizarro scifi adventurous mystery...#Parallel Universe story
Out of this world, into the next. Are there an infinite number of universes? Possibly, or probably if you’re a quantum mathematician. If you’re a science fiction writer let’s have some anyway. Two likely lads race up a Macclesfield sandstone knoll known as Tegg’s...
