From “The Long, Long Life of Trees”, Fiona Stafford
In spring, you can feel life stirring in the barest twigs and the silhouetted catkins look as if a diminutive duck has run across the sky. One day the…
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Alt Hist No More
Sadly, Alt Hist has published its final issue. Or rather, Mark Lord has understandably, given multiple demands, decided to step back from publishing it. Mark published two of my own stories in…
Review of “Old Friends”, Tracy Kidder, 2000
This was written in around 2000 and originally appeared in The Magazine, a zine I self produced a few issues of. I ended up posting the review on Amazon –…
Review of Greatest Uncommon Denominator #6, Summer 2010, SF Site
Following reposting my review of GUD#5 here is my review of GUD#6. Following this I had interesting correspondence with Lou Antonelli and Jim Pascual Agustin Following my review of GUD Issue 5, it…
Review of Greatest Uncommon Denominator #5, Winter 2009, SF Site
Following on my reposting of my review of Aldebo 1 Issue 39, here is the first of my two reviews of issues of Greatest Uncommon Denominator magazine. The early paragraphs include…
Review of “The Yellow Rose of Texas: The Myth of Emily Morgan” – Douglas Brode/Joe Orsak, SF Site, 2010
Original here “This is the West, Sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” This famous quote from John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is…
A-Bomb Dream #2 – 2004 review of “100 Suns” by Michael Light in Nthposition.com
Nuclear angst was a staple for those who were old enough to be aware of the oft-trumpeted apocalyptic threat in the 1980s. In the 1990s it became a lot less…
Nthposition review of The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud and the Search for Hidden Universes, 2004
One of the most memorable books I reviewed for nthposition. I have written before that time has modified some of my judgments, usually tempering enthusiasms a little. The years since have…
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