Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon

 It's not been a good week or so, has it? Together with a few friends, I had the pleasure of seeing and hearing the master of the kora o...

 Saddened to hear about the passing of Martin Phillips of The Chills, one of the really great guitar bands to come out of NZ, or indeed anyw...

 I've posted another modest update over on my Just Giving page for the Cardiff Half Marathon: https://www.justgiving.com/page/alastair-r...

I'm part of a community theatre group based in South Wales. We're putting on Much Ado About Nothing on the evenings of July 11, 12 a...

 Newcon Press's anthology in honour of Eric Brown, "To The Stars And Back", is out in the world and contains a very nice selec...

 A couple of updates - I was extremely flattered to be asked to take on the role of Honorary President of the Birmingham SF Group, following...

 Now that a month has gone by since Locus published a number of appreciations of Chris Priest, I think it's safe to offer up my own cont...