Ian McDonald has a blog, as many of you probably know. Ian has always been a favourite writer of mine, and there’s something about knowing he’s living in the city I was born in. We’re of roughly the same vintage so, who knows, if my parents hadn’t fled the old country we might even have met.

I just posted a note over at his blog suggesting that some brave, intrepid US small press should publish a big omnibus of Ian’s Mars stuff. You know, the novels Desolation Road and Ares Express (the latter never published in the US), along with the half dozen or so related short stories. I think it would be a way cool book, and someone should do it. Absolutely.