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 […]
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 […]
Dear Reader, It has been a while between posts, and this is delayed news, but I have been busy moving house – you may have noticed the world had stopped, this was the reason. On the story front, and what other front is there here, my “The golden age of science fiction” has recently been […]
Uncle Heshie said his inventions came from seeing something in his mind’s eye and then delivering it to the world. That was art – manifesting your idea in the world, If it were enough to have the idea, all those white boys Zippo went to art school with – who talked and talked but never […]
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 […]
My story Blur falls into the category of “I really like this story that I wrote”*. Perhaps you might like it as well. It has moths, corporate nastiness, self-help, redemption, recovery, a lot of weirdness, bowel motions, and more moths. If you did not read it in the cooly-named anthology ProleSCARYet, perhaps you would like […]
I don’t think this piece by Tony Milligan in The Conversation regarding Fermi’s paradox, Cixin Liu’s 3 Body Problem, and the universe being a dark forest where everyone hides, is quite right. I have no difficulty with people finding problems with the book. I did not enjoy it, and so did not go on to […]
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