by Neil | Jan 14, 2008 | Books, Entertainment, Fiction, Reading, Review, Science Fiction, Writers
1984. I was five in 1984. The Berlin Wall still stood. Thatcher was busy castrating the unions, Reagan eyeballed Chernenko and the world teetered on the brink of a few atoms. Oh and Tommy Cooper died live on telly. Another taff bites the dust. But the world survived...by Neil | Jan 11, 2008 | Fiction, Free Online Fiction, Friday Flash Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Short Stories
Eyes By Neil Beynon She broke my heart. No not like that. I’m not completely naive, it’s just you pay for a service and you expect it to be done properly, to standard. You pay the kind of money I did, you expect gold standard. Not this squalid indignity. My recovery...by Neil | Dec 31, 2007 | Books, Fiction, Horror, Iain Banks, Joe Hill, Margaret Atwood, Mitch Albom, Neal Stephenson, Personal, rambling post that goes all over the place, Science Fiction, Writers, Writing
The problem with top fives is that, rather like celebrations, it can be hard to stop and so today we have my Top Five Books What I Read in 2007. The year started off well with a good haul of Neal Stephenson books including The Baroque Cycle, I went through those at a...by Neil | Oct 7, 2007 | genetic engineering, Science, Science Fiction, Seemed like a good idea at the time, Thoughts
I came across this link on an expected announcement by Craig Venter yesterday: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/06/genetics.climatechange As he prepares to bring artificially designed life into the world, without any wider philisophical debate as to the...by Neil | Aug 17, 2007 | Jupiter, Science Fiction, Writing
My short story “The Mine” has been picked up by Jupiter. It’s scheduled for Issue 19 in January.by Neil | Aug 14, 2007 | Books, Get Well Tipsy, Horror, John Wyndham, leaky shower, Life, My sister - Thief Taker General, Science Fiction, The Midnight Cukoos, why is it always me
When we last left our intrepid blogger he was running around like a 1960s sitcom character yelling “Don’t Panic” as water poured through the Kitchen ceiling. Sigh. Things did not get much better. E, my sister not the drug, was treated to four...