Monthly Archives: September 2005

And the Tim Powers news keeps coming! Bill over at Subterranean Press has just posted information about a limited edition of a new Powers novel, Three Days to Never, that I assume will be published some time in mid-to-late 2006. To whet your appetite, Bill’s description of the book from the SubPress site is: When … Continue reading »

The latest offering from Ellen Datlow’s SciFiction, Jay Lake & Ruth Nestvold’s “The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Home From the Stars” is a tale that recalls the pastoralist science fiction of the late Clifford Simak. Six years after launching a self-funded starship on a mission for Barnard’s Star, a wealthy Canadian astrophysicist … Continue reading »

Sorry for being away. I half-wrote several posts, but never quite got to finishing them (the story of my last few weeks). Since last we met there has been glorious sunshine, dancing, visits to the zoo, drenching rains, cleaning of houses, and that darn mouse. Along the way, I meant to write to you about … Continue reading »

There are mice in the kitchen pantry, and I’m not sleeping well. Two nights running, I’ve either woken by myself or been awoken by children at around 2.00am, and struggled to get back to sleep. I still have to be up for work at 5.00am, so you could argue I’m a bit jetlagged, and this … Continue reading »

There was a time when I would have told you that I loved pretty much everything that Jonathan Carroll had written. Way back in the day, when the world was young, he produced a remarkable body of work, including novels like The Land of Laughs, Sleeping in Flame, Bones of the Moon, and A Child … Continue reading »