Starships are bullshit .   All that zipping about in hyperspace thumbing your nose at Einstein, playing silly buggers with Dark Matter, ...

Low passage in Known Space is not all about refrigeration, it’s about sensory deprivation, bodily invasion and embarrassment too. The Low Be...

Two things inspired this post, the newtown of Thamesmead and John Cooper Clarke’s poem ‘Chickentown’. I spent a lot of time in Thamesmead in...

I have been re-reading 'Light' by M John Harrison (fantastic book, highly recommend it) and I am stealing his sad and grotesque ...