Earth and other unlikely worlds

I'm one of the guest speakers at Picocon 43, a day-long convention held in the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London on Saturd...

Jonathan Gibbs's online project, A Personal Anthology project has a simple but effective premise: each week, a guest editor picks 12 of...

Publication day for Loss Protocol , February 12th, was also Darwin Day. Appropriately enough, given that one of the themes of the weird litt...

  The UK edition of Loss Protocol is published today. I began to write it at the beginning of 2023, so this is the culmination of three yea...

    A few of my bookshelves feature in the latest episode of Lavie Tidhar's and Jared Shurin's Shelfie website. Find out more about ...

    Along with Kim Curran, I'll be a guest of the Super Relaxed Fantasy Club on Tuesday February 10th. As its name suggests, it's a ...

Loss Protocol  is featured in New Scientist 's selection of this month's best new science fiction books . There's also a nice re...

Hey! Loss Protocol gets a nice mention in a 'most anticipated' post on Lawyers, Guns and Money .

I'll be a guest of the Super Relaxed Fantasy Club on February 10th, upstairs at The Star of King's Pub in King's Cross: there wi...

 

Reading (in no especial order): Helm , Sarah Hall;  Pulse , Cynan Jones; The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story , Olga Tokarczuk;   The...

 

 

The Coode Street podcast is putting up short interviews with authors for their Advent calendar, one every day in December until Christmas. M...

    (For several years now I've been walking about on Hampstead Heath as early as I can every Sunday morning, and posting on social medi...

 One thing’s certain about the near future: as in the unfolding present, everywhere on the planet will continue to be affected caused by glo...

Stone remembered streets empty of traffic except for the armoured limos of bosses and apparatus men, and the personnel carriers and light t...

Right now ebook editions of my recent novels are presently on offer at the low, low price of just £2.99 -- or $2.99 in the US. The Secret o...

    Loss Protocol continues to make its way into the world. It now has a finished cover, and a page on the publisher's online shop. Co...

Edit of Loss Protocol finished and dispatched by zipwire.  Still don't know what kind of beast it is. It's set in the near future ...

  Development There’s a house I especially like On one of my London walks. Small and flatroofed, Leaning against its larger neighbou...