Monthly Archives: November 2004

This isn’t quite a naked advertisement, but… I’ve long been a fan of the work published Gary Turner and his industrious colleague Marty Halpern at Golden Gryphon. I thought the early books brought out by Jim Turner for the company were wonderful, and that the best of the books they’ve produced since are some of … Continue reading »

It’s not official yet, but things are looking good for me to edit a second volume of the “Best Short Novels” anthology series for the good people at The Science Fiction Book Club. Editing last year’s volume was a joy, and opening a box of copies of the first book I’d ever edited solo was … Continue reading »

When I was in my teens the shadow of Margaret Thatcher lay, like some fell spirit, across the United Kingdom, inciting its youth to anger and seeming to rob the nation of optimism as dole queues grew and coal mines closed. Or so it seemed to me, on the other side of the world. That … Continue reading »

Some terms just don’t translate. I’ve struggled, not particularly diligently I admit, to explain to my beloved what an ‘anorak’ is and what it means. This useful page does the job much better than I. My need to explain this grew out of my ongoing consideration of Rob Gerrand’s new anthology of Australian science fiction. … Continue reading »

Six weeks ago I went out and bought the then new, and still reasonably current, R.E.M album Around the Sun. After a fairly brief listen I posted, fairly hastily, my views on their efforts. Well, this evening I went over to Mark Kelly’s blog where he discusses the album. Setting aside the fact that he … Continue reading »