Jan 20, 2025 | Abandoned Luggage, Blogroll, Left Luggage, Returning 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...
May 2, 2024 | Blogroll, Returning Luggage
A few years ago Gaynor and I visited Prague in the Czech Republic and fell in love with the city – its buildings, especially Kafka’s house and the still-working, centuries old Astronomical Clock. The latter is fascinating. Huge, accurate and clockwork. Then I...
Nov 19, 2017 | Blogroll, Genre: Science Fiction, The Aria Trilogy, Writing
I did a reading today at the launch of the Chester Writers’ Anthology 2017 in which is a surreal short of mine called View From… Our chairperson, Stanley, called my story Kafka-esque, which is a huge compliment. The launch was at Storyhouse, a new theatre...
Apr 17, 2016 | Blogroll, Genre: Science Fiction, The Aria Trilogy, Writing
One of the aspects of being a writer of science fiction is that you are obliged to create worlds. By which I mean settings although often that can mean actual planets. So why do I find myself writing stories that involve the destruction of towns? Perhaps because I can...
