Great Powers?
I finally read A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark a couple of months ago, but we were due … Continue reading →
Through the dark labyrinth
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Music to my ears
The sad fact is that I stopped listening to music when Maureen became ill. Partly it was practical: I needed … Continue reading →
About Time
There was a vogue, a few years back, for books with titles (or more likely subtitles) along the lines of: … Continue reading →
“Naturalism is the enemy” …
… said John Craxton. “The point of art is to make a new reality.” I have spoken before about the … Continue reading →
Canons and cannonades
There is a moment in the latest Strange Horizons podcast in which my friend Duncan Lawie says: I read a … Continue reading →
20 people in London
I have a feeling that I was lucky in when I entered this world. I was, for a start, too … Continue reading →
Loss Protocol
For the last too many weeks, everything I’ve read seems to have been for research, for review, or for a … Continue reading →
Awards
I seem to have been involved in awards almost as long as I have been involved with science fiction. Back … Continue reading →
A little posthumous mischief
In a brief postscript at the end of his biography of his mother, Antony Penrose notes that it was those … Continue reading →
The Wall
Yes, I know, this is a familiar trope in science fiction: the person who discovers that a mysterious wall has … Continue reading →