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Substacking

I have started a substack, Substack-ships on Fire . You could subscribe, if you like!
I have spread myself across a large number of blogs over the years, and it has it has not been the most efficient use of my time and energies. I should consolidate. To that end I'm going to take some of my other blogs private. In the case of blogs that have run their course anyway, such as my H G Wells blog, my Anthony Burgess read-through or my translation of Vida's Christiad, I might as well leave them publicly...

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Blue Book Balloon reviews "Lake of Darkness"

 

In Lake of Darkness, what goes wrong is slightly mysterious. It may be a threat from an Ancient Evil which meddling scientists have unleashed from its prison (cue a great deal of speculation about who or what would be capable of constructing this prison and the paradoxes it builds into the universe). Or it may be that the evil has been loose and ac time for aeons. Or it may be that both things are true, with the evil (possibly not the right term, really) representing a part of humanity that the...

SciFiScavenger and I Chat

I was really quite ill when we recorded this conversation, as you can manifestly tell if you watch it. Still, we chatted.

SFX review Lake of Darkness: 5 stars

 

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"Lake of Darkness" Out Now

Available now from all good bookshops (including Waterstones) and Amazon UK. There is some issue with Amazon US, it seems: you can buy the audiobook for dollars [update: as per the comment below, it seems you can't, actually] but not the actual book. I'm not sure why, and will look into it. 
Is it any good? I'm hardly the person to say yes, or no, and you doubtless have better things on which to spend your money. Brian Clegg describes it as ‘wow’ and says: ‘the mix of a snowflake utopian future, ...

Publication News: 2024

I have a new novel coming out in July (amazon page here): a utopian novel mashed-up with some space-opera Lovecraftian/Dennis Wheatley horror. My teenage son, when I explained the premise, suggested I call it Space Satan!!!, with that many exclamation marks, and this may have been a better title than the King Lear reference with which I have actually gone. But here we are.

I have a new short novel coming out soon fom NeoText: High. This is a thriller. Pitch it into the elevator as ‘Extraction, bu...

Coming Soon

Coming soon, from NeoText.

Tis Twenty Years Since

Rachel, me, and brother-in-law Brian holding our daughter Lily and niece Moya on his knee, on a long-since Welsh holday. The dog was called Toby. I like the suspicious look Lily is giving it.

Malprelate: Out Now

 

Now published! On Amazon: £3.99 on Kindle, Audiobook £2.99 and in a most handsomely-produced paperback edition, a mere £9.19 (also available direct from the publisher). Get em while they're hot, as hot as the hellfire to which the wicked soul of Sir Martin Malprelate has, surely, been consigned, following his death, smashed to atoms by a huge spectral ghost-locomotive passing through the streets of Camden!