This review first appeared in Interzone #248 in September 2013. There’s something faintly paradoxical about the whole premise. Epic fa...

From a work-in-progress. Preseron Norts, Chief of Pomp and Bribes, swam into Sylvester's sensorium.「Ma'am.」   「Norts! New haircut...

We are giving away this mini-collection of short stories ("Fred," "The Invasion," "The Butteryellow Reliquary...

A revised edition (1.4) of Invocation   is now out, correcting some minor errors. Like, I'd spelled pétanque "peutonk" (thank ...

By Joe Simpson. Touching the Void on Amazon. Joe Simpson's web site .  Excerpts: The voice kept urging me on, ‘Place-lift-brace-h...

"With Augmented Reality You'll Always Know When No REALLY Means Yes," by  Tim Maughan.   " Weakness analysis  — having t...

"Now, with the death of communism and social democracy's struggle to sustain its postwar gains, the idea of the whole of humanity a...

Does .@ exist in science fiction? It's a Twitter thing. Let me explain. If your tweet begins "@so-and-so," that means it w...

"Imagine Bob Heinlein wearing a box-fresh leather jacket at a smart-drinks concession, speed-reading Wired from behind a pair of dime-...

Mirrors of some recent Goodreads reviews : Peter Watts, Blindsight (2006) ★★★★ Nasty, woebegone, butch and relentless hard SF (maybe ...