I’ve written a number of blogs that look at the issues around our (that is human) relationship with ever smarter machine intelligences and it continues to be a subject that fascinates me. I think it […]
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Is e-publishing changing the length of a book?
Looking on my book shelves at some of the science fiction that first inspired me I see books that at most are 250 pages. My copy of Asimov’s Foundation and Empire is less than 200 […]
‘If it doesn’t move the story along, take it out,’ – good advice or not?
OK, hands up, who’s been given, or read the advice that: ‘if it doesn’t move the story along, take it out’? Or at least words to that effect. My guess is just about every writer […]
Space exploration and Scifi – why we need them both.
In the Saturday Times magazine of the 18th January I read the column by Caitlin Moran, as I usually do. I like her irreverent somewhat sideways take on life. It makes you smile, but also […]
What makes a good Fantasy read (or not) – 3)
In the first two blogs of this series I looked at what can stop me reading some sci-fi books. So now as, I guess with most sci-fi fans, I also read Fantasy its only fair to turn my […]