My mission to become better read in short fiction continues with the recommendation of a friend: Bosman at his Best is a collection of the works of Herman Charles Bosman. I hadn’t heard of him until my friend mentioned him,…
Monthly Archives: September 2016
Fiction Review: Bosman at his Best by Herman Charles Bosman
Tagged with: anthology, Bosman at His Best, Collection, Herman Charles Bosman, short story
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
Under the Hooked Cross – 4: Orientation
Previous instalments: 1 2 3 MacFadyen darted around the hydroponics pod with an agility that made Silversmith dizzy. It took a conscious effort not watch him. Any sudden head movements set his inner ear spinning. “It’ll take you a few…
Tagged with: Alternate history, science fiction, short story, Under the Hooked Cross
Posted in Under the Hooked Cross
Posted in Under the Hooked Cross
Midnight Deed
It was midnight when I decided what had to be done. It wasn’t a daytime decision. The day is the time for forbearance and forgiveness and all those things we do in case someone is watching. The night sets us…
Greater Minds: Anthony Horowitz on writing Sherlock Holmes
Anthony Horowitz was commissioned to write a Sherlock Holmes novel. His afterword described the process of planning a mystery novel. He starts with who murders whom and why, and works outward from there. He developed ten rules to be faithful…
Tagged with: Anthony Horowitz, Arthur Conan Doyle, crime fiction, Mystery, Sherlock Holmes, The House of Silk, Thriller
Posted in Greater minds, Wednesday Pontification
Posted in Greater minds, Wednesday Pontification
Under the Hooked Cross – 3: Dancing Penguin
Previous instalments: 1 2 Silversmith’s glass stopped half way to his lips. “Argus doesn’t stop with the British government, then.” “No.” “Nothing wrong with ambition. Why Argus? Wasn’t he some Greek fella?” “Servant of Zeus, with a hundred eyes that…
Tagged with: Alternate history, science fiction, short story, Under the Hooked Cross
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Posted in Under the Hooked Cross
Flight of the Silkworm
Flight of the Silkworm is airborne at Solstice Publishing! This is my first novella and my longest published piece to date. It was also one of the most fun to write. It’s the story of Persia, a centurion of an…
Tagged with: Flight of the Silkworm, Novella, science fiction, Solstice Publishing, Solstice Universe
Posted in Publishing news
Posted in Publishing news
Etiquette on the Circle Line
My first thought was that he was talking to someone else. If someone’s talking aloud on the tube, it’s more likely to be on a phone than to the person sitting next to them. But he was looking at me,…
Inspirations: To sail upon a star
Project Breakthrough Starshot plans to send probes to Proxima Centauri powered by lightsails. The lightsail was conceived decades ago, but the IKAROS probe is the only spacecraft to use it. IKAROS is powered by the sun, but Breakthrough Starshot will…
Tagged with: Breakthrough Starshot, Exploration, Guillem Anglada-Escudé, IKAROS, Lightsail, Magnetic sail, Magsail, Planetary science, Proxima b, Proxima Centauri, Robert Zubrin, Science, Solar sail, Sunjammer, Superconductivity, Superconductor, Yuri Milner
Posted in Inspirations, Wednesday Pontification
Posted in Inspirations, Wednesday Pontification
Under the Hooked Cross – 2: Argus
Previous instalments: 1 “Thirty seconds to booster separation.” Silversmith was more alone than he’d been for months. He could bellow, “The Führer is a Jewish comedian!” into his throat mike and everyone would assume they had misheard. As good a…
Tagged with: Alternate history, science fiction, short story, Under the Hooked Cross
Posted in Under the Hooked Cross
Posted in Under the Hooked Cross
Greenland Shark
A peristaltic spasm threw her from a cold place to a colder place. The change in the cold registered less than the disappearance of the electrical impulses around her snout. She had no name for what she was detecting or…
Tagged with: Biology, Flash fiction, Greenland shark, historical fiction, Microfiction, Zoology
Posted in Saturday Hooptedoodle
Posted in Saturday Hooptedoodle
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