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August 10, 2016
Ten Little Astronauts – New Pledge Levels
Everybody likes a paperback. As handy as ebooks are, and as great as it is to be able to walk around with an entire library in your pocket, when it comes down to it most people still prefer to have a good old fashioned paper book in their hands.However, paperbacks have to be physically sent […]
August 6, 2016
Ten Little Astronauts – Why Sci-fi?
A week and a bit since the launch of Ten Little Astronauts on Unbound, and I’ve just put out my first Shed update. This one – Why Sci-fi? – focuses on the reasons why I chose to take the premise of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and take it to interstellar space, and should hopefully […]
August 1, 2016
“Kicking and Screaming” and Other Books
Flash Fiction Month has just ended, which means that (as well as bundling my stories together into a brand new anthology) the task of catching up on everything else that happened during July begins. There’s been a fair bit of news that I would have shared already if there hadn’t been quite so many 3am […]
July 31, 2016
Dead Hand
Flash Fiction Month 2016, Day 31 Challenge #14: A syringe full of ones and zeroes: 001) Use exactly 128 words. 010) Make the number 2 a major plot device. 011) Asymmetry is disorder and disorder is your enemy. 100) No dialogue whatsoever. The Machine lay in wait: a perfect mind, resting in the perfect silence […]
July 30, 2016
The Dragon’s Lamp
Flash Fiction Month 2016, Day 30 The corpse of the dragon lay steaming upon the floor, the marks of its wrath seared permanently into the cavern walls. Yet the heroes stood victorious. Leaving the dragon to stink and smoulder, they ventured deeper into its lair, appraising the stock of treasure the winged terror had amassed […]
July 29, 2016
David Bowie Day
Flash Fiction Month 2016, Day 29 Challenge #13*: David Bowie Day. Write a story exploring themes of death or identity, including something beginning and something ending, and incorporating transhumanism. It must include at least 10 quotes or lyrics by David Bowie, and a character based on Bowie himself. Blasting across the universe in a napalm-propelled […]
July 28, 2016
Robocopout
Flash Fiction Month 2016, Day 28 “We can rebuild him. We have the technology!” “Aaand right off the bat, that’s a reference to the wrong thing.” “What do you mean? It makes perfect sense!” “We’re turning the guy into a robo-cop, and you just quoted The Six Million Dollar Man.” “Yeah, but they’ve given us […]
July 27, 2016
But is it Art?
Flash Fiction Month 2016, Day 27 Challenge #12: Write a speculative fiction story exactly 55 words in length. It must not contain dialogue. Unit 659-43-A faced two dilemmas. One: there was insufficient Paint #96A400 for the wall, necessitating either a patch job or mural. Two: the only reference models to survive Armageddon were one granite […]
July 26, 2016
Analysing the Black Throne
Flash Fiction Month 2016, Day 26 “How do you feel?” asked Doctor Gray, in a tone of voice that said: “I’m listening,” as well as “I care,” and finally, “I’ve done this six times today already and it’s nearly lunch.” “I’m great,” replied Girth Loinhammer, Dungeon Lord. “I’m at the peak of my dungeon-lording career! […]
Ten Little Astronauts Campaign Live!
After days of planning, one of which involved getting up at 5:30am to film on board a WWII submarine, Ten Little Astronauts is now live at Unbound. If you’d like to see a hard sci-fi reimagining of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were none become a thing that actually exists and that you can find in […]
