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To Be Sung to the Tune of Silence

I’m very proud to have had my tenth story published in Stupefying Stores: To Be Sung to the Tune of Silence . Please go and take a look before reading my commentary on the story below.Enjoy! The idea for this story was triggered by a couple of books I’ve read concerning the “Fermi Paradox”Continue reading “To Be Sung to the Tune of Silence”

The Last Will and Testament of the Human Race

I’m very proud to have had a third story published in Nature: The Last Will and Testament of the Human Race , alongside the story behind the story. A rather different story format… as Nature put it, “The end has come, as the end it must, and the remaining representative of the human race isContinue reading “The Last Will and Testament of the Human Race”

Support Issues

My 125 word Flash Fiction story, Support Issues, has just been published at https://stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/…/support-issues This story was prompted by a recent factual article Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported at https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete Truth is truly stranger than (or at least as strange as) fiction!

Home Grown

I’m really proud to announce that Nature has published my second SF story – Home Grown – in this week’s issue, along with my piece on the inspiration behind the story Just to put things in context, here are my statistics to date:- SF stories completed: 12 SF stories submitted: 8/12 SF stories published: 2/12 Continue reading “Home Grown”

The Journey to Publication

I have always enjoyed creative writing, starting pretty much as soon as I learned to read and write. I have also loved reading Science Fiction since I first discovered the genre, around the age of 8, so the thought of writing my own Science Fiction stories has been around a very long time: decades! PuttingContinue reading “The Journey to Publication”

Hello!

This is my first ever blog post, so I thought a good place to start would be to share some information about myself and why I have decided to start blogging. First of all, who am I? That’s rather a big question, which can’t really be fully answered in a single post, but hopefully theContinue reading “Hello!”