Editorial – August 2026: Support Free Will.
Hello everyone, Support free will because it’s innocent. It’s independent and should only be swayed when there is a good
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Gods, Cider and the Fine Art of Doing Less: A Friday at the Idler Festival 2026 (convention report).
There are literary festivals that feel suspiciously like science fiction cons with better scarves and bush hats. Then there is
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Editorial – July 2026: How To Lose Your Individuality.
Hello everyone, For me, reading is a habit. I spend a couple of hours a day reading, although not all
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The Recollections: Fragments From A Life In Writing by Christopher Priest (book review).
Christopher Priest died at 80 in 2024. This is a collection of his non-fiction pieces, assembled and introduced by his
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The Unseen Self: Kirlian Photography Explained by Brian Snellgrove (book review).
For those who don’t know, if you place a light electrical charge across an organic object on photographic paper, you
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To Plan Or Not To Plan Or Somewhere In Between (Editorial – June 2026).
Hello everyone, Being able to plan is part of life. You have to anticipate problems, select solutions and apply them.
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Editorial – May 2026: Moon Trek.
Hello everyone, Now here’s a quandary for you. We’ve had people disbelieving that the Apollo missions to the Moon happened.
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Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen (book review).
Annie Jacobsen is an investigative American journalist examining the history of Area 51 — less secret these days, but still
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Retro Fan #43 March 2026 (magazine review).
I think we British were spared The Partridge Family and The Brady Bunch when they first aired. Reading writer Mark
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Brainwashing by Kathleen Taylor (book review).
I pulled this book, Brainwashing by Kathleen Taylor, quite a while back and have finally worked it into my reading
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