Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon

Fourteen months ago I was in Florida, on the eve of the penultimate flight of the space shuttle Atlantis. On my way to KSC to collect ticket...

To London, and specifically Waterloo, where my wife and I treated ourselves to two tickets to York Theatre Royal's production of The Rai...

I can't find a good image of the cover, but the Twenty Eighth Annual Edition of the Year's Best Science Fiction, edited by Gardner D...

I'm in the late stages of what will probably be the last substantial draft of BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH, mindful that while there will still...

Brilliantly inspirational piece in the Guardian from astronauts Piers Sellers and Scott Altman on the space shuttle. I particularly like the...

Just a note to say that I've opened a Twitter account. It's early days yet but we'll see how it goes. Follow me on: http://twi...

Out now: Features my story "At Budokan", about the future of rock promotion and death metal, which originally appeared in the ...