Monthly Archives: August 2009

I was awakened at about 7.15am on Sunday by the two balls of joy.  Well, one.  Jessica was up first. I used the early start to get organised for futbol practice. Breakfast was made, girls prepped etc, and then we picked up my mother, who was spending some time at our place while we were … Continue reading »

So, I’m having a little ‘alone’ time with Jessica and Sophie. Marianne is having a well-deserved and – if I’m honest – far too brief break this weekend and I’m ‘on deck’. This always seems to fill my mother with the belief that I’ll be overrun by the little beggars. Instead, one minor conflict so … Continue reading »

I need to blog about other stuff, if only to start to sort my head out.  Did we talk about What Remains? It’s an awesome three story chapbook that Aqueduct Press published for Wiscon, and it features two new stories by Geoff Ryman and one by Ellen Klages.  I read it a couple months back.  … Continue reading »

So my good pal Nick Stathopoulos is working away on paintings for a new exhibition. The theme is supertoys, or something close to that. I saw a couple of the paintings when I was staying at his house last month and they were awesome.  This is one of them.  Beats the heck out of the … Continue reading »

There’s an interesting interview with Eclipse Two author David Moles over at SF Signal. I adored his story, “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom”, and think he remains one of the writers out there who could really do something remarkable in the field. His novelette “Finisterra” is terrific, and I can’t wait for his … Continue reading »