The Early Days of a Better Nation

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The title comes from two quotes:

“Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation.”—Alasdair Gray.

“If these are the early days of a better nation, there must be hope, and a hope of peace is as good as any, and far better than a hollow hoarding greed or the dry lies of an aweless god.”—Graydon Saunders

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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Carol’s funeral

More people came to Carol’s funeral than there were seats in the crematorium chapel: our families, her friends and mine, some of whom had ...

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Carol Ann MacLeod, 11 February 1952 to 16 August 2024 Carol, my beloved wife whom I met in 1979 and married in 1981, died on Friday 16 Aug...

Monday, August 05, 2024

My Glasgow Worldcon Schedule As some of you may know, I'm a Guest of Honour at the Glasgow Worldcon . I haven't said enough ab...

Friday, November 03, 2023

Chengdu Worldcon: Meet the Future

This historic Worldcon has already been very well covered by others, e.g. Nicholas Whyte and Jeremy Szal . For lots of coverage of events, ...

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Cosmia Festival

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...

Friday, April 14, 2023

Moniack in a Month – Writing Science Fiction

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

Monday, March 27, 2023

Lightspeed trilogy publication news: UK and US

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...

Sunday, January 22, 2023

Interview

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 ...

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Address to the Edinburgh Science Festival Church Service 2022

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

Tuesday, March 08, 2022

BEYOND THE HALLOWED SKY is a Kindle Daily Deal today

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Sunday, December 12, 2021

BEYOND THE HALLOWED SKY

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 ...

Friday, December 03, 2021

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

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

Saturday, August 21, 2021

‘Nineteen Eighty-Nine’

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,...

Sunday, October 04, 2020

Vaping

'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...

Saturday, June 06, 2020

Best of British Science Fiction 2019

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...

Wednesday, May 06, 2020

Solidarity stories

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...

Monday, April 13, 2020

Lockdown gigs

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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