Our mutual friendTony Healey, over at Fringe Scientist, is trying to get a Charles Dickens reading relay off the ground to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens. It involves voting for the Dickens book that you'd like to read (or re-read), then joining a chain of readers who will read the book,… Continue reading What the Dickens
Month: February 2012
Distant Machines
My collection of three definitely speculative fiction and probably vaguely science fiction short stories, Distant Machines, is now available as an ebook from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk: Distant Machines on Amazon.comDistant Machines on Amazon.co.ukI think it's also available on the .fr, .de, .it and .es versions of Amazon as well, but it's in English so they… Continue reading Distant Machines
The Restoration Man breaks free for a week
I enrolled my short story The Restoration Man into Amazon's KDP Select programme. This has two benefits: firstly it means that the short story appears in the Kindle owners' lending library, which enables people to lend it to one another; and secondly it provides me with the opportunity to make the title available for free… Continue reading The Restoration Man breaks free for a week
Distant machines drawn by a fringe scientist
Over the last few days I have been putting the finishing touches to a collection of three short stories, which I shall be putting up onto Amazon, Smashwords and other places in the near future. The stories are all set in the not-too-distant future, and they touch on subjects such as genetic manipulation, a world… Continue reading Distant machines drawn by a fringe scientist
You have won second prize in a synchrotron contest
A little while ago I mentioned a competition being run by the Diamond Light Source, which as you all know is the UK's national synchrotron facility. At the time I said that I couldn't say anything about my story because it was being judged anonymously and I didn't want to prejudice the judging process. Well, the… Continue reading You have won second prize in a synchrotron contest
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