For reasons I won’t go into, I am presently in Budapest. The way things are going, I will most likely be able to write more here than I have over the past few weeks, which I am looking forward to because things have been slow going. I’ve yet to find...

There’s so much stuff getting published these days that it can be a challenge to identify good fiction from bad. In fact, quite a few years ago when I was reading fantasy and science fiction in my own time, I remember even then, when we weren’t downl...

I’m an Alastair Reynolds fan. Not ashamed to admit it, he writes crunchy science fiction that sits well with my critical mind. You know – the bit that competes with your enjoyment of a novel by whispering, “that’s not very realistic, is it?” in the b...

The impact of coronavirus on my personal situation comes with a particular silver lining. Unable to go to the office to work, I worked from home in London for a while. After a while, that was unmanageable and a solution needed to be found. The soluti...

If there’s one thing a virus-driven lockdown is good at, it’s creating opportunities to catch up on lots of unwatched TV. You know: all that time you thought you’d spend writing, which in fact gets lost while binge-watching someone else’s output. It’...