Seeds Of Earth – fantabulous cover by Steve Stone!

Steve Stone is The Man – it was he who created the covers for my Shadowkings books, three wonderful images that I`ll treasure forever, and now he’s done it again for my new book, SEEDS OF EARTH, due out in March next year from Orbit UK.
What you’re seeing are the three colonyships which flee from [...]

FIREFLY – A Light In The Black

Just finished watching the TV series FIREFLY, all 14 episodes, (for the 3rd time) and there is no doubt that this was the most unjustly cancelled SF series of modern times. I was never much of a Buffy/Angel fan (though I enjoyed most of what I saw), but I felt that FIREFLY was in an entire [...]

Saving The Rich From Their Own Greed

Well, that`s about the size of it – insane, almost psychotic speculators and other species of vermin prowled around the world’s stock markets, buying and selling with the self-deluding rapacity of someone selling bricks out of a dam so that people can build houses further downstream. And then the UK and US governments come along and, [...]

Yes! – Its Banking Armageddon!

Hooweee! Northern Rock, Bear Stearns, now Lehmans and Merril Lynch with AIG looking distinctly ropey. How to explain the tottering of giants whose feet really were made of clay all along? Well, one way to look at it is that ever since Thatcher came to power in 1979 it has been a 30-yearlong gangbang of [...]

Anti-Palin Demo Rocks Anchorage!

Wow, just when it seems that things are too depressing for words (or screams for that matter), along comes something that really perks you up. It seems that Sarah Palin headed back to Alaska, to Anchorage today and was greeted by a 1000-or-so of her pod-people supporters. Later on, there was an ‘Alaska Women Reject [...]

Sarah Palin – Scary American

 
So it’s like this – the American Republican party nominates John McCain, a 71-year old with a flaky temper, as their candidate for the White House. Then the McCain campaign picks as his Vice Presidential running mate Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska. Palin delivers a corrosive speech at the Republican convention and suddenly goes from [...]

and a new word is born: GRUNTERTAINMENT

Following on from reports that the ethically-challenged Jeremy Kyle is going to be roped in to help the British government, the Department of Work and Pensions, help to get the longterm unemployed back into work (ie sludging away at some degrading job akin to indentured servitude), the press is turning the spotlight on Kyle`s own particularly [...]

Freedom Is On The March, Y’all!

….as his Cretinosity the Shrub once assured us, back when his popularity ratings were somewhat above dachshund-belly level.
But just what is this freedom thing of which you speak, earthman? Well, funny thing about freedom is…not enough of it and society and culture disintegrates into authoritarianism and corrupt social relationships (or sometimes goes into a kind [...]