Long exposure image taken from Old Winchester Hill in Hampshire on a fairly clear night, showing a vertical streak of light, which marks the passage of the International Space Station. City lights fill the horizon, and in the foreground is the silhouette of a trig point obelisk.

About Me

I love to write stories that come at a genre sideways in a dark alley when it’s not looking, and pounce. Usually these are science fiction, because my soul stretches further into the future than into the past – but I’ve been known to stray from the path into the troll-infested forest of fantasy, the litter-strewn pavements of the dystopian, and now and then, the starkly familiar mundanity of the contemporary.

I believe that optimism is a worthy service to provide to a reader, and I try to envisage hopeful projections of our future in the universe. There’s a yang to this yin, though: some of my tales turn out quite dark and twisted, and after all, who am I to stand in the way of the demons when they’ve been cooped up too long and are demanding an outing?

I’ve never been comfortable choosing one great passion on which to focus when I clearly have two: writing and music. You’ll find that this blog bounces from one to the other somewhat, but I’ll be sure to use the categories to label the entries, so if your interest lies in a singular direction, clickety click on those!