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...
