THE SKINNER

This, over on Disco Stu's blog made me chuckle. I'm always one for trying to see what's on the shelves to the rear of shots on...

I just received this email from ‘Xanares’, which is interesting and certainly food for a lot of thought: Hey there Neal, Thought you mi...

Peter Watts, author of the superb Blindsight and the pretty shit hot Starfish , Maelstrom and Behemoth , has NOT been having a good time....

Okay, Joe Abercrombie has got me. I’ll keep buying his books so long as he keeps producing excellent tales like this.  Before They Are Hang...

Here's a couple of nice ones from Richard P John. Okay, these are starting to get a bit samey. Time for you all to get (as in a prev...

Huan Tan put me onto a discussion about me over on this bulletin board . There are some nice things being said about my stuff there but also...

First...curse you Neal Asher for limiting it to five books. That out of the way I am subverting your rules slightly in order to pick '...

It's always worth keeping and eye on what's going on here: George Whitesides has recently replaced Will Whitehorn as the CEO/...

So here we have Disco Stu's blog where he displays my last two video clips and posts : Only notice the date! 10 days have elapsed and...

Thanks to whoever it was that let me know about this. The Departure (hardback) is now available for pre-order on Amazon.  And on The Book De...

I suggested a few posts back that maybe you reading this would like to send me a picture and a little narrative about your favourite 5 SFF b...

And another one.

Here's the last of my general SFF collection. I may yet put up something about the collectible books I've obtained since entering th...

I'm afraid there's only one reaction possible  to this : Steve Connor is a complete dick head. He gets the opportunity to have an em...

You know, I’m really getting sick of people who fail to understand the meaning of ‘correlation does not imply causation’. It’s right gettin...

Well this should be pretty damned cool! EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired screen rights to the John Scalzi novel series Old Man’...

I wasn’t going to write a criticism of this book because I do have some negative things to say and, really, I don’t like doing that. I much ...

Having heard about the book Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (I think it was Richard Morgan who recommended it) I managed to pick up...

Two pics for you from probably the best bookstore I have ever been in. A proper store that sells it all from Manga to GFX Novels to 'pr...

Thanks to Sean Price for sending this picture. He was a bit reluctant. I'll let him explain why. I was hesitant to send you this pictu...