Polish Tentacles

The Polish transplation of Rose Coloured Tentacles is published today in the winter special edition of Szortal. This is my third story in Polish, following Inside Every Successful Man in Fahrenheit in May 2009 and Hiking in My Head in Szortal in September 2014.




Rose coloured Tentacles was originaly published in Perihelion in May 2015.

Book Review: Now We Are Ten edited by Ian Whates

In celebration of ten years of well-known UK small press, publisher NewCon Press, editor and owner Ian Whates presents us with Now We Are Ten, an anthology of stories that in some way each feature the number ten. Some of the stories are in ten sections, some feature the number ten in some significant or symbolic way and one is a story in literally ten words.

Read the rest of my review at SF Crowsnest.

Book Review: The Corporation Wars: Insurgence by Ken McLeod

The second book in The Corporation Wars trilogy, Insurgence, carries on directly from Dissidence in this multi-faceted plot involving far-future AIs, virtual reality and planetary colonisation.

Read the rest of my review at SF Crowsnest.

Writing Plans for 2017

As usual, I have a whole list of story ideas and titles lined up, waiting for their turn to reach fruition and make it on to the page. I have no idea which, if any of them, I'll be working on soon, but currently I'm working on two stories - one in the style of Jack Vance and one in the style of Shakespeare, complete with iambic pentameter.


I want to work on a novel this year, after a couple of years off. I have a whole list of novels to write too, but two of them in particular are well advanced in planning and current rates of enthusiasm. Hopefully, one of them will see completion this year.