The Trouble with Aliens

In a critique of my first book ‘Ancestral Dreams’ I was told my aliens were not alien enough.  The premise is that these creatures visited earth many thousands of years ago and passed into legend.  […]

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 […]

UFOs a personal experience. But do I believe?

Ah, yes, UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) myth or real? I’d like to believe I really would. However in this age of quality digital cameras with zoom lenses and camera phones etc. why are we still […]