THE SKINNER

Dear readers, My name is Sean Sutherland, and I’m a 30 year old Physics teacher originally from Halifax, Yorkshire but now residing i...

Sad loss, but the work lives on. Brian Aldiss  18 August 1925 – 19 August 2017.  In the foreward of Space, time and Nathaniel (NEL...

Alas, I don’t really have much in the way of hobbies. I have many interests but none are really hobbies as such, apart from reading as muc...

The Man Fell to Earth was the Silver Surfer, but that’s being a bit facetious. I found this slow going at first with its focus on a future...

I’ve been really enjoying these ‘Who Reads my Books’ posts and I hope that you have too. It brings home to me some thoughts about the anon...

Hi, I’m Subrata (Sub) Sen, and I’m a unrepentant Other Worlds, Other Times addict. I have a strong imaginary internal life. Once invested...

A little while ago I read an article about neural dust and when posting it I quipped, ‘Coming to an SF book near you sometime soon’. Well,...

I started reading science fiction at an early age after raiding my grandfather’s bookshelf and finding many books by Jack Vance and John...

I can still clearly recall my first childhood experiences with science fiction. I was nine years old when my father sought to broaden my l...

Hi, my name is Ian Packman, although a lot of people call me E because Ian is such a long and difficult name to say. Originally I was from...

I'm 51, from Australia, currently doing all things you need to with a newly built house; driveways, erecting sheds, landscaping etc. I...

I was born in Chester and raised in Runcorn In Cheshire I worked in an office when I first left school but then trained as a teacher, f...

Dear Neal and fellow readers, greetings. My name is Nikolaos Bampasis, I am a 37 y.o. aerospace engineer currently living in Thessalon...

Trying to watch the KC Chiefs play. I’m one of those Liberals that live in the failed democracy of North Carolina. I’m not terribly ...

Yippeee! Sometimes I swear about computers but today I'm a happy bunny. While trying to figure out how to convert a pdf into a jpeg fo...

Tricky writing about yourself…  briefly then, my name is Monique Gudgeon, born in 1958 which makes me 60 next year – heavens above!  I liv...

It’s strange to think I’ve been reading Neal's books for 16 years. And during that time, most if not all his books have been re-read m...