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- No Waste of Time 1:34am Nov 5
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- What’s in a name? 1:40am Oct 20
I've been meaning to write a blog about the A Space of Waste? debate I attended at Greenwich Observatory, as part of the Sci-Fi London event. It was a terrific night - we held the panel debate in the library of the new Observatory, a beautiful galleried room just under the dome...
The excellent Oktoberfest run by Sci-Fi London is in full swing at the moment. And I'll be taking part in a panel tonight at the Greenwich Observatory about the subject of space travel - do we need it? And should we write about it...
I've been following a very interesting debate on the Guardian books blog ...Damian G. Walter writes well and wittily about the state of SF, and how the ideas and (dare I use this pretentious word? Yes I'm using it!) tropes of science fiction have entered the mainstream...
I've just finished Stieg Larsson's marvellous crime thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...
One of the best movies out at the moment - nay, one of the best movies I've seen for many a year! - is the new Pixar animation, Up...
Scientists have just discovered a massive ring around Saturn - which is 1.5 million miles thick. It's made of tenuous dust and is invisible to the naked eye. I saw a TV news item about it which showed what the ring would look like if it were visible - from Earth, it would be larger than the Moon...
It's one day to the official publication date of Red Claw in the UK...it's a nice, but strange feeling when a book is almost but not quite out. I wrote a few words about what inspired me to write this book for Sci Fi Now...
Get your free copy of Red Claw (if you're lucky) from this man.
Last night I watched the first episode in a 3 part series about naturalists. Yeah, I know that sounds as exciting as watching paint dry. But in fact, it was an extraordinary hour of television - a story of heroism, wonder, beauty and amazing, adorable people...
I've recently introduced a new feature on this blog...consisting of longer and more researched pieces on favourite books, movies and TV shows written by me and the co-geeks amongst my acquaintance...
Brian Ruckley has been recommending the TED Talks page - this is an amazing organisation which allows experts, amateur and professional, in almost every field to have their say about pet ideas, in front of an audience of academics, celebrities and 'real people'...
I once had an email from my agent with the header 'Pub dates' and I thought I was being invited on a pub crawl...in fact, this is publisher code for 'publication date'...
My eye was caught by an article in Sunday's paper about the eminent Canadian novelist Margaret Attwood...
It wasa bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. This is the opening line of a book I consider to be one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written...
My friend Danny Stack has recently made a short film, with the help of his friends and the loyal readers of his blog. I haven't seen the completed film, but here's the trailer, which is way cool...
