THE SKINNER

Other than to say thank you very much every now and again I don’t normally make any reply to reviews. Having seen quite a few of them now I ...

Ah, the juggernaut rolls on: the Czech publisher Polaris have now made an offer for  Brass Man , which they intend to publish in the nex...

Ah, I do like this: “Wars are still waged, crimes committed, and science undone out of deference to an invisible being who is believed ...

Some while ago Tor US sent me an ARC of Peter Watts’ excellent book Blindsight , which I read almost in a state of shock because it was so ...

Who saw Life on Earth a couple of nights back? It showed chimps going to war with another tribe of their own kind, then killing a baby (en...

But the Japanese have got some catching up to do with the Germans. Bastei Lubbe have bought everything up to Hilldiggers, in fact they took ...

Liz Johnson (Rights & Co-editions Manager at Macmillan) “…is truly delighted to report a Japanese deal for COWL. This is particularly ex...

As James Bond, Sean Connery looked tough, he looked like the kind of guy who could rip off your head and crap down your neck. Lazenby is a v...

I had to swipe this from Jerry Wright's post on the Asimov's board - amused the hell out of me. Human induced Global Warming is a...

I sometimes I wonder if I’m awake or if I've drifted off to sleep and am now having a nightmare about living in Swiftian political sati...

To these words add one of the phrases below: ‘If something is not done catastrophe will ensue, so I am going to make lots of new rules, regu...

It’s interesting how the AGW alarmists (those of a particular political stripe who try to distort reality by tampering with how we describe...

Sigh, I sometimes wonder whether sending people signed copies of my books is worth the hassle. Some of you reading this may recollect my ran...

The green/environmental agenda, with its concomitant propaganda and politics, is worming its way into everything in an extremely irritating...

So, in his wisdom the Anti-Midas (A guy who touches gold and turns it into crap), Gordon Brown, has decided that though the Nick Griffin an...

Perhaps I need to reiterate my position on god, gods, whatever. If someone says to me, in all seriousness, “I believe in the tooth fairy, o...

Oh dear, the presenters on TV are certainly a bunch of liberal lefty disconnected-from-reality tossers. This morning there was stuff about ...

Well, for various reasons I’ve not been reading as much as usual, and my ‘to read’ pile has been stacking up. First on my list upon returni...

I nicked this from elsewhere: Heffers 2nd Science Fiction & Fantasy Evening will be on Thursday 2nd November from 6.30pm. Tickets are £2...

Ah, there's hope for me yet: "British scientists have grown the world's first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthroug...