Follow this link to see me read the start of a chapter of Pennyblade! I had the enormous pleasure of getting to read before a fairly sizeable audience at BristolCon. Bristolcon is a lively and very enjoyable one day event, surprisingly held in Bristol, UK. If you stick around after I read from Pennyblade (or […]
Read more "Pennyblade: A Reading At BristolCon plus the weirdest reviews I’ve had."The passing away of Kevin O’Neil has hit me more than I’d ever have thought it would. His comic art blew my little mind back when I was a kid. Today I was thinking how overlooked his design of Blitzspear (the living spacecraft of Nemesis The Warlock) is. It never makes any top ten of […]
Read more "Kevin O’Neil and Blitzspear"Rounding my visit to Matt’s off with an old school game of Heroquest. It’s… not quite as good as you remember it. But it improved with a bottle of wine. Something I didn’t have when I played it at ten years old. The wine, I suppose, replaces the childhood glee.
Read more "Heroquest!"Maybe the best dream I ever had came in the form of a cheap History Channel-style documentary, In Search Of The Questionable Beast Of Gloucester, a cryptid seen only once by an 18th century pastor who espoused the healing properties of gin. The America narrator kept mispronouncing Gloucester. There was a reenactment of the encounter. […]
Read more "The Questionable Beast Of Gloucester"Those lovely @ForbiddenPlanet people are selling my upcoming dark fantasy novel, The Keep Within, for £5.99 on pre-order! What a bloomin’ bargain! SEE HERE.
Read more "UK Readers: New Novel, Pre-Order for £5.99!"If you’re in London tomorrow, I’ll be talking/reading at Super Relaxed Fantasy Club, Kings Cross.
Read more "Come One, Come All!"A Sunday afternoon flashback from 1979 with Douglas Adams, Harry Harrison, Peter Nicholls and Ian Watson, all interviewed by comb-over BBC titan Cliff Michealmoore. It captures SF at a moment: very male (albeit tempered by fantastic facial hair) and with a crisis as to what SF should be. Harrison is absolutely adamant SF should avoid […]
Read more "What Is Science Fiction? (1979)"Our boozer was right next to Leicester Pride festival and so we got into the spirit of things. It was a busy fun day that became a bleary fun night out.
Read more "Pride At The Loaded Dog"
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