Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon

I got back from Oslo (which was great; thanks are due to my excellent hosts - especially Heidi Lyshol - for a very enjoyable visit) and then...

While I'm in Oslo, here's a short essay I did for the BSFA on the film "Fantastic Voyage". Its many flaws notwithstand...

VS Ramachandran's Phantoms in the Brain was one of the best pop-science books I ever read, so I'm looking forward to getting stuck i...

This is my current bedside reading: I'd had a glance at Daniel Levitin's book in a Boston bookstore last year, but for some reaso...

Naughty but funny spoof video of Brian Cox - contains lots of gratuitous swearing, obviously a good thing in my book but possibly offensive ...

This is bloody fantastic.

The other story I submitted on the same day as "The Lobby" will, I'm pleased to say, appear in Voices from the Past, an ebook ...