Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon

Everyone loved the hardback cover of Blue Remembered Earth by Dominic Harman (me especially), but for the smaller format required f...

Eagle, the hugely popular children's comic, casts a very long shadow. In its original incarnation it ran from 1950 to 1969. Its golden a...

Over at http://www.unlikelyworlds.blogspot.co.uk/ Paul McAuley has been posting some classic 70s paperback SF images, many of...

There's almost certainly a post to be done on the influence of Joe Haldeman's work on my writing (I've been a huge admirer...

Belatedly, my review of Pippa Goldschmidt's excellent novel The Falling Sky appeared on Arcfinity a few weeks ago: "Pippa Gol...

I've fallen quite badly behind on sending out bookplates over the last few months, but with my wife's help I've had a bit of a c...

The great Iain Banks has died. We had known this day was coming, of course, after Iain announced his terminal illness a couple of months ago...