Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon

As a piece of cinematic spectacle, I found Ad Astra to be very impressive, with convincing effects and some gorgeously rendered space vistas...

I'm pleased to have sold a new story, "Polished Performance", to Jonathan Strahan's forthcoming anthology of robot stories...

(And a bit of context:)

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...