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An author blog – what it can and can’t do for you, part 1.

I’ve been blogging now for close to two years.  I publish my author blog every week on a Wednesday without fail (he says, fingers crossed) and have published over 100 posts.  Even when I go on […]

Robots – will they make us lazy?

I suppose I could rephrase this with ‘robots (machines) are making us lazy.’  Machines have and are increasingly ensuring that, in the west at least, fewer and fewer of us have jobs/lives that entail hard, […]

Why we need space exploration

I know I’ve touched on this subject before and as a science fiction writer you might say I have a vested interest in extoling the view that, yes, the human race needs space exploration.  Now […]

Go on – read some fantasy

Last week I implored people to put aside prejudices of ‘genre fiction’ and read some science fiction.  This week I’m going to do the same for the cause of fantasy.  I suppose as a scientist […]

Go on – read some science fiction

OK, I know, I would say this, I’m a science fiction writer, and yes I hope at some point you might read mine.  However, there is a whole world (actually many worlds) of excellent science […]