Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon

Or thereabouts. After gaining my degree in astronomy from Newcastle in 1988, I moved to Scotland to begin my postgraduate studies in St Andr...

By now the events surrounding Jonathan Ross's proposed MC'ing of the Hugo awards have been well covered - see (for instance) Cheryl ...

Perhaps it's always been like this, but I can't help feeling that the dialogue around SF&F has in recent years grown increasingl...

This coming Saturday (18th) I'm doing a video interview with the good people from Sword and Laser, who are based near San Francisco. I...

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According to popular wisdom, all writers have at least one early and unpublished book that is best consigned to obscurity - the so called ...