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Science fiction – 25 things it has taught me

After last week’s slightly, perhaps, gloomy blog ‘Do we have a future to look forward to’ I thought I had better lighten things up a little this week.  So as any regular reader of my […]

Do we have a future to look forward to?

As a science fiction writer it is hard to avoid this subject.  And so, in my book ‘Project Noah’ I deal with a ‘doomsday’ scenario for the world, with a little hope thrown in.  However, […]

My advice to writers – take a walk

For those who have followed my blog you’ll see from some of the photos (e.g. the front page) that I occasionally go walking.  I’m not fanatical, always out there, striding across the hills, but I […]

Dr Who, its lasting appeal – from a fan

Like many people in the UK on Saturday I was looking forward to the start of the new season of Dr Who, except in my case we had friends round so I had to watch […]

A World Government – a sci-fi myth?

Once science fiction gets into the realms of humans living on several or many worlds we have the formation of those ‘World Governments’ or if we are imagining large numbers of settled worlds we imagine […]