Dancing on Glass

The week before Empty Space was published I reread Light and Nova Swing . What followed was two weeks of the most hallucinatory, vivid dre...

  Dungeon Crawler Carl is on the Clarke shortlist. I managed to find a (very) cheap copy.   I feel like any way I approach this it's go...

 "One would think, given the scale of the challenge, that there should be emergency public meetings in every village, town and city eve...

 "Ideology obscures the real conditions of existence by presenting partial truths. It is a set of omissions, gaps rather than lies, smo...

   I haven't done this in AGES!      I've read Armfield, Bradley, de Marcken, Gleeson, Gramazio, Greer, Howard, Hur, Ísberg, Langme...

    Even after thirty years of following prize shortlists I'm still compelled to moan about the books that didn't make it and wonder...

The Clarke Award is always one of my cues to catch up with the year's SF - along with Kitschies and Strange Horizons end of year round u...