Recent Blogs
Dragut’s New Portrait
Dragut had high intelligence, compassion and a cruel streak.There exists on the web, an image of Admiral Rais Dragut painted shortly before he died in 1565 by shrapnel during the Great Siege of Malta. The painting isn’t in the Public Domain, I can’t find permissions...
The Algebraist by Iain M Banks
I needed to read this SF novel for the Urmston Science Fiction Book Group that meets in the wonderful Urmston Book Shop, the first Thursday monthly. Set in a far‑future where faster‑than‑light travel is only possible via fixed wormhole gates, leaving most star systems...
VENGEANCE ISLAND revisited
LATEST! A small creative collective, Pen of Light, have created a reel for me for Vengeance Island. On Facebook shorts it attracted 1k views in its first 25 hour outing. Click on the link GEOFF PROJECT - YouTube Ebook by Geoff Nelder. There it was, the island of Gozo,...
Opi gets a talking to
Wisdom versus Youth? A precursor to Geoff Nelder’s Opi’s World In the far future when a small group of humans crashed onto a Kepler20 planet strange experiences happened as you might have read in ‘Suppose We’. If you didn’t there’s still time and it isn’t needed to...
I’m a guest speaker!
Help! I’ve been invited to be a ‘featured author’ at Chester’s newest bookshop – Books on the Walls – on Saturday July 12th at 2pm for about half an hour. If you’re free and in the Chester, UK area then you could do worse than turning up to boo, hiss or buy a coffee,...
Vengeance is mine!
I had an interesting conversation with a real famous writer, George Saunders, mostly about what inspires us to write and how the unexpected find, sends us on another writing road. Last night he was kind enough to give me this comment on my historical fantasy Vengeance...
From Orbital to Left Luggage
Booker winning Orbital by Samantha Harvey is to be the subject of Urmston Science Fiction Book Group in February 2025. Orbital is about life on the International Space Station. (ISS). It reminded me of when I did the research for ARIA: Left Luggage, which begins with...
SUPPOSE WE reel (not a dance)
SUPPOSE WE has been out for a year or two but unbelievably there are some science fiction readers who do not know about it. So I fell for an advert where a video creator proposed his services – Visdon Media. A 20 second reel for a handful of dollars. So I outlined the...
NEW EBOOK DRAGUT’S DIVERGENCE
Read all about it! New release on Kindle ebook only because Dragut’s Divergence is two short stories with Malta as a theme. When Gaynor and I were in Malta this year (2024) and the bus travelled past the beach that Admiral Rais Dragut supposedly landed in 1551, it...
Oryx & Crake a kind of review
As a writer I often feel awkward writing reviews of established authors in case it looks like sour grapes but there’s more to praise in this book than gripe about. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood is another post-apocalyptic story. Good, I like those. Heck, I’ve...