Experience "Divine Intervention" by London’s 2nd Magpie Project—a dark, atmospheric dream pop and shoegaze masterpiece.

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.” — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun The bones of the past In a years-ago job interview, I was surprised when an interviewer picked up on the reference at the bottom of my CV to writing fiction. “Tell us about these ghost stories,” he said. Unprepared, I muttered something mock-profound about ghost stories being a metaphor for the way the past affects the present.

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On a canal-side stroll in West Berkshire, the novelist explains why he was always destined to be a writer and what the scheming Romans in his latest book teach us about power today

The Physics of a Gunshot

It’s a little way off, but contract’s been signed, so… Sale klaxon! My briny horror story, “The Last Lighthouse Keeper” will be published (sometime, not sure…) b…

The Physics of a Gunshot

Good as the magazine is, there’s nothing attractive about the title “Trollbreath.” I mean, I’ve never knowingly met a troll. But I’m imagining their breath would be ch…

Good as the magazine is, there’s nothing attractive about the title “Trollbreath.” I mean, I’ve never knowingly met a troll. But I’m imagining their breath would be ch…

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2nd Magpie Project slide through with “Get A Gun (And Learn To Shoot)” sounding like the soundtrack

“If you are in a bad mood go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood, go for another walk.” - Hippocrates I'm with Hippocrates on this. Whenever life gets oppressive nothing works as well as lacing up the boots and getting out of London for a day of solitary walking. Occasionally, I'm lucky enough to carve out the time to do something more substantial.

My story, "Everywhere is Everywhere and Anywhere Else is Nowhere," was published eighteen months ago in top Scottish SF magazine Shoreline of Infinity. It's always lovely to have a story picked up and given a second life, so I'm pleased that it's being republished in the latest anthology from Water Dragon Publishing, the Dragon Gems Spring 2025 Anthology. …

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Check out my custom Gulf of Putin’s Poodle map created with MapQuest!

Despite many recent additions to global science fiction and fantasy (SFF), Eurocentrism is still a challenge in many fictional universes. Today, SFF demands authentic representation.

Dr. Harry Evans, Emeritus Fellow at CAB International, led scientists—including from the Natural History Museum of Denmark and Royal Botanical Gardens Kew—in a study to investigate the identity of a f...

No better way to start the new year than to make my debut in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, a magazine that gave birth to so many of the SF stories that inspired me when I was a kid. "Go Your Own Way" is the fourth in my "Way" series. You can read about earlier instalments (and read one of them) …