My top 5 science fiction inventions

When considering my top five science fiction inventions I have tried to leave out the obvious that form the backbone of science fiction.  Those are of course space travel and in particular faster than light […]

5 more reasons writers should blog

Some months ago I wrote a blog, ‘5 reasons why writers should blog’.  Well many more weeks of blogging have strengthened my belief of how important it is, to me at least as a writer.  […]

Robots, androids and intelligent machines – what next?

I wrote a blog with this same title back in September 2012, with the added caveat, ‘do we want them to look human’ rather than, ‘what next?’.  It seems that this is a subject that […]

‘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 […]

5 Reasons why writers should blog.

A bit of a detour this week from issues raised by science fiction.  I’ve been blogging now for six months and I admit that , having read the advice from other writers’ blogs, it started as […]