Over on the NewCon Press site, please find details of how to submit stories for Best of British Science Fiction 2025 Here’s the cover – sans writer names. For now…
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We’re a month and a half into the new year and my feet have barely touched the ground. Firstly, I’ve been working hard on putting together The Slab’s next anthology: Vivid Worlds. This is going to be a solar punk anthology. If you don’t know what solar punk is, it is science fiction about some
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It’s December! I’ve already done one Christmas party, and one Christmas Chocolate Wreath Workshop (at the fabulous Cocoa Amore in Leicester). My Secret Santa gift is bought, and I am looking at the rest of my Christmas budget and thanking the stars I have an empty diary after New Year’s Day until Sci-Fi Weekender next
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A busy time ahead as we finalise the layout for Best of British Science Fiction 2023 for Newcon Press and over at The Slab continue sifting through the enormous submissions pile for Laughs in Space. Artwork by fabulous Northampton artist and musician Paul Alex Condie has also been arranged. All of this goes on amidst
Happy Equinox everyone. I meant to write an update in August, but I think I got intimidated by the sheer number of updates I have neglected to make on my website in all this time. I just finished reading 4000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman, so now I’m aware that my fear of confronting the projects
It has been a horrible start to the year. My Dad, who was very frail, died of Covid in January. Of course, Dad didn’t used to be frail. He used to be fighting fit before suffering a traumatic brain injury at work a few years ago, after which he had multiple strokes. Then, Alzheimer’s started
