Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon

Last week I had the great pleasure of taking part in the excellent What the IF podcast, hosted by Philip Shane and Matt Stanley. The startin...

Far from being a "vassal state" of the EU, as Boris Johnson would have it, it increasingly feels to me as if the UK is a vassal st...

Those of you who were reading my blog ten years ago (back when it was "Teahouse on the Tracks") may remember that I decided to com...

Gene Wolfe has died. I feel I ought to say more, but it's late and I'm tired. I'll leave it with this: it took me years to fin...

On the 18th of April I'll be in Waterstones Picadilly in London, talking SF with Temi Oh and Emma Newman, with Pat Cadigan (rather ...

Or not, as the case may be.