I’m delighted to say that I’ve recently signed a contract with Dreamforge for my short story “Empty Nest”. The story will feature in their 2024 double-issue on “uplift“. What’s it about? Androids, genetic engineering and cuttlefish. Sort of. I enjoyed writing this story more than most, and I’m proud to see it find a home […]
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I have a new short story, “Rusty Sue“, just published over at Drabblecast. Drabblecast features stories on the weirder side of speculative fiction, and they regularly produce podcast episodes each month featuring a new story. Rusty Sue is available in audio and print formats, and features as part of Drabblecast’s run of “Weird West” stories.
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I stumbled across this webpage put together by Nature, listing the top 100 science papers of all time. There’s a great interactive tool that lets you cycle through the papers and see graphs of their citations per year. There are tens of millions of papers on the record. Only around 15,000 papers have ever been […]
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I’m pleased to announce that my story “The Withering Sky” is a recipient of the Writers of the Future Award 2022. The space horror novelette will be published in the upcoming Writers of the Future Volume 39 on 16th May 2023. Click here to order the anthology from your preferred store. The Writers of the […]
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This post is inspired by Kate McKean’s recent newsletter article, which I thought was a great way to visualise, rather than just list, books read last year. I read 50 books in 2022, which makes me very happy. It’s been a hard year at work and in my personal life, but I’ve still found time […]
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