My monthly science highlights – 2)

Yes, this is the second of my monthly science round-up blogs.  As I said last time they’re not in any order.  Nor are they necessarily of mind boggling importance, they are just things that have […]

Science fiction writers – must try harder?

From what I’ve read science fiction as a genre is at a bit of a low ebb, which as a writer of science fiction is not the best news.  On the other hand if my […]

Science fiction, small creatures and alien life

Perhaps weirdly this blog is inspired by watching an insect on my bathroom floor.  It was so small you needed a lens to see any detail at all.  But there it is, perfect in its […]

The Trouble with Aliens

In a critique of my first book ‘Ancestral Dreams’ I was told my aliens were not alien enough.  The premise is that these creatures visited earth many thousands of years ago and passed into legend.  […]