Pleasurable busy-ness

Besides the enormous gratification of helping my wife to look after our grandson every Tuesday, I've had my nose to the keyboard so much I have a permanent smell of plastic in my head. This month I've somehow managed to: Finish another edit of the second volume of my SF trilogy, Left Luggage. It's with Rebecca Pratt, my US agent to tease publishers.

I've written a new short story, The Future and Up One, and had it critiqued at the BSFA Orbiters – thanks guys and gals for tough, fair and...