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Stuart Aken on Blood Red Dust and the double-edged sword of superlative science fiction

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The world’s full of easy reads, with a multitude added to the ranks each day. Stuart Aken refuses to…

A Night Shift, by Joshua Scribner: #BookReview.

This short piece of dark fantasy puts a different spin on a popular theme, and carries it through with some dark humour. It’s a compact story,…

The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe: #BookReview.

It’s dangerous to review a much-loved and respected classic; even more so for an author. So I face this review with some trepidation. The story is,…

Looking for the Best Word? Tip #50

    Offering help for writers and language learners, this series of posts is a resource for all word lovers. This week’s words: Resign, Really, Dog…

Progress on the WIP: #SciFi in the Making.

  Blood Red Dust is on the shelves. War Over Dust has just appeared as a Kindle, available from your local Amazon. The launch for that…

Story in Literary Fiction, by William H. Coles: #BookReview.

Subtitled ‘A Manual for Writers’, this is a scholarly work that attempts to analyse what makes a story ‘literary’ rather than ‘genre’ and advises on how…

A Taste of Village Life

    Monday; the weekend over, a new week starting. Here, in Lydbrook, we’d had a pretty busy few days and were missing our usual walks…

The Devil in the Belfry, by Edgar Allan Poe: #BookReview.

Until I read this short, I hadn’t realised how good Poe was at comic writing. This is a tongue-in-cheek dig at the horror genre that had…

Looking for the Best Word? Tip #49

    Offering help for writers and language learners, this series of posts is a resource for all word lovers. This week’s words: Fable, Assonance, sort…

The Solitude of Prime Numbers, by Paolo Giordano. #BookReview.

Translated from the original Italian, this melancholy novel captures the nuance and subtlety that can so strongly influence a young mind. The wrong thing said, the…