Looks like I only just jumped on this blogging thing in the nick of time!

Esteemed futurologist, co-parent of cyberpunk, and generally Mr Cutting Edge, reckons the whole phenomenon only has ten years to live – he reckons that the 55 million (plus one!) bloggers in the world will give it all up when we realise the basic futility of the past time.

I’m not disagreeing, he might have a point. But then that chrome and sunglasses look didn’t last long as the future, did it? And whatever happened to steampunk.
Read for yourself at The Register.

Posted March 26, 2007 Comments(0)

There, now at least the first post won’t be sitting on its own for ever.

I’ve spent the last few days working on my website, which I hope to get up and running in the next few weeks – it’s going to feature details of my short stories, some of the better reviews that I’ve done over the years for Matrix and Vector and a couple of other bits and pieces. Nothing overly flash (or even slightly Flash) but I think it’s coming together nicely. Now all I have to do is get my head round PHP.

I’ve just sold a story – “Be Aware” – to Forgotten Worlds, which I’m chuffed about. It’s a story set in pre-war Germany – there’s an element of alternate reality and an element of the fantastic but it is mostly a story about science and technology as much as it is narrowly a science fiction story (though I would and do argue it is sf) so I’m delighted that the editors have taken a chance with it – I know they spent a great deal of time thinking about it. The magazine has just shifted from monthly to quarterly production so “Be Aware” won’t be published until September, but that’s cool too.

Posted March 24, 2007 Comments(0)

It’s a narcissistic business, isn’t it? Writing your thoughts down and publishing them on the worldwide web in the vain (and it must be vain) hope that others will find your ideas interesting enough to click on not just once but again and again. That they will come to hang on your every utterance. Very odd indeed. And I’ve resisted for a long time, but – sod it, I’m not going to let my modesty and natural reticence (ha!) keep me from adding to the great pile of steaming verbiage that is the blogosphere, so here I am. Blog post number one.

And it’s a curious moment of potential. There are a lot – an awful lot – of neglected blogs out there. Blogs that people start bursting with opitimism, surging with the belief that they’ve got something to say and the world simply can’t go on without the benefit their words of wisdom. And, it turns out, they don’t have that much to say afterall. And, it turns out, the world goes on without them.

Will this blog become another of those stagnated little puddles in the vast ocean of comment?

It might… or it might not.

Come back soon and find out.

Posted March 22, 2007 Comments(0)