David Malouf has died. I stopped reading David Malouf simply because I had read everything he had written. I lie. Not his poetry. It is a great failure of mine, I can only read poetry that I read at high school. Some lack of trust in myself. Some lack in myself. Some lack. So, correction. […]
I am very sorry to hear of the death of SF writer Ian Watson. I recently re-read, with great pleasure, Whores of Babylon, a book I can recall purchasing new when it was first released many decades ago. I can also remember scouring one of the many second hand bookstores that used to be common […]
I am very grateful to Sam Moss for publishing my short piece, “Sisyphus, bound” in ergot magazine. The boulder is stuck fast. It ain’t going anywhere. Sisyphus is very UNhappy. Click on the title above to read it for free. See my other stories here. Now, that’s a rock
Oh I knew it was an AI equipped scammer from the outset, but I also know that Donna Tartt is a great writer, very perceptive, with terrific critical faculties, so I am pretty sure that if she read my stories, she would actually say something along these lines. Hello Mr. Stevens, [that’s me! she is […]
I have been known to overthink, however I wonder if Alastair Reynolds has presented us with some Philip K Dick easter eggs in his fun-filled Halcyon Years. I am not spoiling anything that the blurb does not give away in saying we start with a well-worn SF trope of a generation ship travelling between the […]
FLAG DAY It was Flag Day so we wrapped ourselves in our flags and went to the pub. What a jape! What a crack-up! We were hilarious! Everybody else had the same idea, but. Those bastards. All the flags were the same because we are all Flaglanders. It would have been nice to wrap myself in […]
Edgar Allan, the bleakest of the Teletubbies, turns 217 today. (someone else made this art, it was not me) Dark Universal and Justice League Dark ain’t got anything on some of the scary Teletubbie art (I’ll let you google it yourself). Remember, each of them is over 6 foot tall, they live in a very […]
TIL that Andromeda Spaceways magazine, formerly known as Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, is no more. After 25 years, Andromeda Spaceways magazine will be grounding our fleet with issue 100, due December 2025. We want to thank all our passengers over the years (and really, what is time when you’ve passed through as many black holes […]
A little late, but they are choices from the list I publish at this time most years, so who cares. Happy new year. Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial arts […]
Philip K Dick is dead, alas, so it is possible that the world we live in is not his dream. Then again I have read Ubik. And also, it would be impolite to cast PKD as the Demiurge. The again, Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn, but I have never associated PKD with HPL, so […]
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