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Perhaps Our Non-Return To The Moon Isn’t Such A Surprise…
That we last visited the Moon in 1972 and have never since returned is usually regarded as both a disappointment and a surprise. Certainly, people at the time assumed that once Apollo had reached the Moon mankind was there to stay – just as once Columbus reached the Americas, many others followed. But something I…
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Stone Skin Press And Me
What’s Stone Skin Press? Well it’s a newly launched fiction imprint from well-regarded gaming publisher Pelgrane Press (Esoterrorists, Trail of Cthulhu, Dying Earth), with renowned writer Robin Laws ably1 serving as Creative Director. Why am I telling you this? For the self-centred and perhaps even egotistical reason that I’ve got a story in one of Stone…
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An Open Letter To The “Intelligent Designer”
Dear God, I should perhaps being this letter by admitting that I am myself an atheist who believes the process of evolution as explained by Darwin et al to be the the cause of life on Earth. However, I do accept that there are many people who believe that the human body is the result…
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My Thoughts On The Cllr Compton / Alibhai-Brown Twitter Joke Controversy
A Tory councillor has been arrested over claims he suggested on Twitter that Yasmin Alibai-Brown, a female newspaper columnist, should be stoned to death. You’ve probably read this in the news. If not, you can read about it on the above link, or here, here, or here. But basically, a Conservative councillor, Gareth Compton, was…
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Testing, Testing, One Two Three
Have updated WordPress iPhone app to latest version, and the question is, can it handle apostophes, in words like can’t, don’t, won’t and isn’t? I’m writing this piece with them. So if they’re not there it’s because it’s stripped them out. Here goes…
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What’s This We, Kemosabe?
There’s a lot of talk now about the coalition government move to raise the cap on university tuition fees. For what’s it’s worth, I don’t know what the solution to university funding is, although I do feel that the emphasis on getting 50% of the population to go to a university simply to do a…
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Boardgame Camp
Last Saturday I headed down to Richmond to go to Boardgame Camp, a boardgaming “unconference” organised by my friend and publisher James Wallis. I will talk about how it went and what I did, but I should probably first answer the question that’s probably occupying the minds of a good chunk of those reading this,…
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Revealed: My Super-Secret Writer’s Hideaway
I was walking back to the station with a colleague after work last night (I walk past his bus stop on the way to the station) and he mentioned that I’d walked straight past him the previous day, when he was waiting. Him: You walked straight past me, without noticing me. Me: I do that.…
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The Dream Home That Never Was
And I discovered that my castles stand, Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand. – Viva la Vida, Coldplay Yesterday, we went out to the Downs with Jules’s mum to get some fresh air and scenery and let the dog give her paws a work out. We spent a bit of time walking along…
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Should Lib Dem Supporters Be Ashamed?
It’s quite common now to read tweets, posts and status updates that are highly critical of the Liberal Democrats’ role in the UK’s coalition government, often stating that those who voted Lib Dem should now be regretting their choice and sometimes even suggesting that they should feel shame. But do such statements betray a misunderstanding…
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