Do we need to be a bit more Victorian?

I know life wasn’t great for everyone in the Victorian age.  There was gross poverty, exploitation of children and many other things that we’ve striven hard to put right over the last hundred years or […]

Future homes – what will we really need?

This blog was inspired by the fact that I’ve just invested in a new pc.  The old one was, well getting old, slowing down.  I know how it feels.  However unlike myself I could transfer […]

The human race needs to leave earth – part 2.

I was stirred to write my first blog on this subject by the fact that if we continue to cut down the Amazon rain forest at the current rate there will be none left in […]

The human race needs to leave earth

What sparked this week’s blog was a program I watched recently.  It emerged that if we keep cutting down the Amazon rainforest at the current rate it will be all gone in two hundred years.   […]

Don’t condemn science fiction to a ‘genre’ box

Why is science fiction condemned to that somewhat shabby heading of ‘genre fiction’? As if anything that falls within ‘genre’ is of lesser value? That somehow it’s not serious fiction (not that I’m sure what […]