Apologies for being ostensibly absent for a while – I have been disabled (and am now partly deaf) from the ongoing march of right sided Meniere’s Disease. Added to this, the world is in a dystopian hole right now, but there are glimmerings of hope. I have published several articles that may be of interest. ...

Since my last Blog, I have three presentations that may be of interest. Many of us live in Broken Bodies, in a Broken World. One way I found to manage my own Broken Body, was to get involved with health professionals and patients working within the area, i.e. pelvic pain. I published a few articles; and then ...

I’m delighted to report WATER MUST FALL has been shortlisted for a British Science Fiction Award, due to be awarded (online, of course!) at Confusion 2021, over Easter as usual, given it’s EASTERCON! Many, many thanks to all the BSFA members who liked the book well enough to both read and vote for it. There ...

The White House endgame in America hopefully provides the painful backdrop to the continuing push for a Better World, heralded by the Climate and BLM Movements, gaining traction earlier in the year. My novel WATER MUST FALL (2020) is eligible for any SFF awards that this year may yield, although there were many fine novels ...

Dystopian doesn’t fit the bill, for the passing of this year. The Covid virus – like any other virus of course – does not recognise the niceties of (Western) calendars and so will carry on unabated, birthed in 2019 but enduring into our coming years and decades, although hopefully curtailed significantly by vaccine role out ...

The right to food and water is a fundamental one indeed – and WATER MUST FALL is about the human struggle to claim these rights, in the face of those who would own and monetise everything. So, in the spirit of sharing resources more humanely and equitably, I have linked up with Amnesty International (South ...

WATER MUST FALL launches this week – it was supposed to launch at the now cancelled Concentric, i.e. Eastercon 2020, but Covid-19 has had other (much more tragic) ideas for global humanity – these are tough and very sad times for so many! For psychological perspectives on the virus, you can visit The Psychologist ...

We now truly live in perilous and Science Fictional times! COVID-19 may indeed continue to wreak its havoc through this year and into 2021, perhaps in several waves. The last great pandemic – the so-called ‘Spanish Flu’ just over a century ago – had three major waves, the Second being the deadliest. For a ...

My apologies for my absence from here for so long. Health issues and the demands of living have taken their toll, but hey, here I am again, 18 months later…Much news of note to update, for 2019.In September, Luna Press published a collection of my short stories, alongside three essays and three new previously unpublished ...