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Thursday, April 20, 2023



Cosmia Festival

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On Saturday I’ll be at the Cosmia Festival in Huddersfield. I have a talk about my recent and current books (4:45pm to 5:45pm), and from 7...
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Friday, April 14, 2023



Moniack in a Month – Writing Science Fiction

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Moniack Mhor is Scotland’s creative writing centre, located in a spectacular landscape in Inverness-shire. I’ve taught there before , with...
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Monday, March 27, 2023



Lightspeed trilogy publication news: UK and US

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Last week saw the UK publication of my new novel, Book Two of the Lightspeed trilogy, BEYOND THE REACH OF EARTH, available here from Amazon...
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Sunday, January 22, 2023



Interview



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I haven’t been blogging much, and I hope to do more this year. There are one or two exciting publication announcements in the pipeline. In ...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022



Address to the Edinburgh Science Festival Church Service 2022

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The Edinburgh Science Festival closes with a church service in the historic St Giles' Cathedral. It includes a ten-minute non-religious...
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Tuesday, March 08, 2022



BEYOND THE HALLOWED SKY is a Kindle Daily Deal today

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Get it here today!
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Sunday, December 12, 2021



BEYOND THE HALLOWED SKY

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What with one thing and another I’ve neglected to mention here that my new novel, Beyond the Hallowed Sky , has been published. It has been ...
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Friday, December 03, 2021



What does fiction tell us about our hopes and fears for technology?

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I'm delighted to say I'm on an online panel at the Digital Ethics Summit 2021, with Tabitha Goldstaub, Professor Sarah Dillon, and ...
Monday, November 22, 2021



Book launch for BEYOND THE HALLOWED SKY

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Details here .
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Saturday, August 21, 2021



‘Nineteen Eighty-Nine’

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I’m very happy to say that I have a short story, ‘Nineteen Eighty-Nine’, in the first issue (Autumn 2021) of the new online science fiction,...
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Sunday, October 04, 2020



Vaping

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'Somebody died fae vaping. Yir better aff back on the fags.' --- Lady at bus stop, a few months ago. You might think it bad taste...
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Saturday, June 06, 2020



Best of British Science Fiction 2019

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Best of British Science Fiction 2019 , edited by Donna Scott, is now available to pre-order from Newcon Press . [Update 8 June: It's now...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2020



Solidarity stories

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The idea of a society of entirely voluntary arrangements has its charms, but we don't live in one and are not likely to for quite some t...
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Monday, April 13, 2020



Lockdown gigs

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I'm in Gourock, writing a space opera trilogy set in Gourock. That wasn't my pitch to the publisher , it's my pitch to myself, t...
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Monday, February 17, 2020



The Sage of Freuchie

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Tom Nairn: 'Painting Nationalism Red'? Neal Ascherson Democratic Left Scotland, n.d. (2018) This is an odd pamphlet which is wel...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2020



Writers of a Better Nation?

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The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, and Nation Scott Hames Edinburgh University Press, 2020 How well I remember S...
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Tuesday, January 07, 2020



Everybody knows

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Lenin Lives! Philip Cunliffe Zero Books, 2016 It can be disconcerting to read a book that upends your way of looking at the world. It...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019



That was the river. This is the sea

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Over the past few years I've more or less stopped blogging about current politics. Because Twitter, for one thing. For another, my last ...
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Monday, November 18, 2019



Blue sky over China

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I returned just over a week ago from eight days in Beijing, courtesy of the China Association for Science and Technology, which on Sunday ...
Monday, September 16, 2019



Other People's Politics

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Other People's Politics: Populism to Corbynism J. A. Smith, Zero Books, 2019 Around 2010 or so, I attended a Battle of Ideas panel on...