January 2023 In the context of the current war in Ukraine, remembering the space race of the 1960s seems to take me back to an age of innocence. I know there were crises and that most of us felt the threat of nuclear war looming over us at one time or another before Reagan and …
Newsletter – December 2022/January 2023 First of all, apologies for mucking about with the newsletter day of the week again! It’s a bit all over the place at the moment. One of the reasons is that I’ve just added the second novel of the series, published only a few days ago, to one of these …
Newsletter – November 2022 At last, we’ll soon be heading back into space! It seems a long time since I uploaded The Big G as a free giveaway to blaze the trail, and yet the second full-length novel, due to be published next month, is set before the events on Ganymede and was mostly written …
Lazy or cloak and dagger sci-fi and The Safest Moon! Read More »
Newsletter – October 2022 Unlike my three brothers, I inherited my mother’s sweet tooth, and though I hated most of the school dinners I was ‘forced’ to eat as a boy – employing contrived methods of avoiding doing so – I loved the stodgy, sticky puddings. And I have always been a sucker for almost …
Bugs and flour and Imperfectly Deadly on Kindle! Read More »
Newsletter – September 2022 After a freakishly long dry – and hot! – spell, someone must have looked at the calendar, seen that it was autumn and finally decided to send some serious rain to Cantabria. This apparently endless summer had given us the time we needed to get agreement from the residents’ committee to …
Newsletter – August 2022 As well as anticipating at least one of my future ‘careers’, my final year undergraduate degree project with the promising title ‘Computer Programming for Flow over Side Weirs’ granted me access to the university Computer Centre. I remember it as a circular building, though perhaps it was octagonal. More importantly, it …
Why did Derek kick the cards across the computer centre? Read More »
Newsletter – July 2022 A while ago, I was thinking back to when I studied what used to be called ‘computing’ and people wrote programs. In those primitive times, when only Macs (nobody talked about ‘Apple’) had graphical user interfaces, I remember once using what we thought was a pretty funky language called prolog to …
An AI that thinks it’s a werewolf or ‘nonsense on stilts’ Read More »
March has been quite a month. As well as getting this website up and running, I also finished proofing the first two stories in the Backdoor Angels Short Stories series and uploaded them to a couple of funky promo sites. And April kicks off with a ‘Science fiction extravaganza’ group promotion featuring Imperfectly Deadly, the …
