It’s taken much longer than expected, but the shortlist for the BSFA Short Story Competition has finally been agreed and is now online here:

http://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa/website/community/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3425&#3425

with a little taster of each story.

It’s a pretty diverse list and the judging was very interesting - I’m writing a piece for the next Focus…

And next yhear, the BSFA (and me) take on the James White Award, so this is just the start.

Posted November 14, 2008 Comments(1)

…better than beating a Tory, it’s beating the Nationalists! Thank you to the people of Glenrothes for making my morning.

…that i hope I can teach my daughter, it’s that she should have faith in her own judgement because too many of her teachers will be idiots.

…I will never buy, it’s a USB endoscope

Posted November 7, 2008 Comments(0)

So, like the rest of the planet I’m enjoying the brief sense of liberation that the election of Barack Obama has brought - we are finally heading back to a world where the worst lunacy’s of the Neo-Cons will be shoved into a darkened box somewhere and forgotten, at least for a while.
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Posted November 6, 2008 Comments(4)