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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Eleven months ago, we lost the awesome science-fiction writer Eric Brown. I have been proud to include several pieces by Eric and his regular co-author Keith Brooke over the years in my Best of British Science Fiction series for Newcon Press. Eric’s writing is very much like the man himself: there is a profound sense
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Last year I took part in the live recording of It Just So Happened at Buxton Fringe – the history podcast hosted by Richard Pulsford, a very clever chap who just so happens to be a former UK Pun Off champion. The aim of the episode is for panelists, usually comedians, to talk about events
This won’t be a long post – I’ve mostly got my editor hat on this week, so I’m a good way through my reading list for Best of British Science Fiction and keen to get a table of contents ready soon. That’s before embarking on the next reading pile for Laughs in Space, which I’m
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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
I just did my show Donna Scott: Weird Sense of Tumour last night at Leicester Comedy Festival, presented by Jokes on Us Free Festival. Thanks to Alex Hylton for his sterling efforts at running THREE comedy venues at the festival in addition to being a full time pub landlord on top of also being an
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