Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon

I'm out and about in the UK quite a bit this month. The evening of this coming Wednesday, 6th November, I'll be speaking at the In...

This weekend I'll be participating in Space, Time, Machine and Monster, a literary festival in Newport, South Wales. http://www.litera...

According to popular wisdom, all writers have at least one early and unpublished book that is best consigned to obscurity - the so called ...

ON THE STEEL BREEZE is only ten days from UK publication, and at least one bookseller seems to have copies in stock already, although they m...

I enjoyed the World Science Fiction Convention in San Antonio. As always, I'm left with slightly mixed feelings about what I expect to g...

Eagle Owl caption, Field museum of natural history, Chicago. I have no idea why the upright image insists on displaying like this, bu...

Unless you're on it, the International Space Station is a long way away - 400 or more km, even if it's flying right overhead - but ...