THE SKINNER

See the first page in this series for contact and postage details.

See the first post in this series for contact and postage details.

Contact details and stuff about postage and packing is in the first post about these books, so check back. Obviously some of the books in ...

As before, contact details and stuff about postage etc are on the first of these posts.

As far as I understand it fasting has a multitude of benefits beyond just losing weight. You have autophagy and apoptosis, an increase in g...

Okay, please read this post before contacting me. The new copies of Polity Agent and Line War below have gone. One and three on the list be...

Contact details and information regarding postage and packing are on the previous post. Unfortunately the uncorrected proof copy of Polity ...

Page One Mainly so I can keep track I'm going to put these up over a few days. To the prices here I will have to add postage and pa...

I enjoyed this to begin with as it covered the ground of Red Dragon and expanded on it. The lurid murders, convoluted plots and the psychol...

  Now checking my journal I see that is was at the end of July when I took a 20,000 word plot thread, extracted from The Warship, and decid...

About six years ago, when I was drinking, smoking, slightly overweight and not getting enough exercise, my blood pressure reached 140/90. I...

I haven’t been disappointed until now on rereading Van Vogt. Here is a collection of short stories published in 1953 which, it usually be...

It’s a fact that when you exercise, the positive changes that happen to your body – increased muscle, fitness, lung capacity etc – do not...

I’m into my fifth week of fasting for two days a week and eating sensibly on the other days. It is getting easier and easier to do. After a...

This is a really old one. First published in Astounding Science fiction in 1947 one would expect it to be full of anachronisms, dated more...

Here's the US cover of The Warship - book two of Rise of the Jain.

It can be difficult reading old SF because not only do you have to achieve the usual suspension of disbelief required for reading it, but...

I watched the first season of this all the way through. It was enjoyable so I give it that. However, I couldn’t help but feel that the whol...

I’m rapidly turning into a fasting bore. I get these enthusiasms and tend to learn as much as I can about the subject in hand. Thus far, ov...

I’m repeating myself here but, quite some weeks back I took some text I’d extracted from one of my previous books and began to rewrite, wit...