Projects

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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