John Ayliff – “Is Thomas the Tank Engine hard science fiction?”
A 2015 blog post by John Ayliff observes: The early Railway stories were based on real railway incidents, and the characters were based on real models of locomotive (Thomas is…
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From “A Practical Guide to Time Travel” by Brendan McConnell
From “A Practical Guide to Time Travel” by Brendan McConnell, page 132 … What they don’t tell you about time travel is the emotional dislocation. I suppose my voyage, undertaken…
“The Unbelievers” – short fiction by G Scott Huggins
At the now defunct Sci Phi journal, here is an interesting story by G Scott Huggins, “The Unbelievers”. The story has a fairly clear theological point, but also reminded me…
Sci Phi journal no more
My story “The Granddaughter Paradox” was published about this time last year in Sci Phi Journal. Unfortunately, I have now discovered, Sci Phi journal is no more (although the website is still…
The Granddaughter Paradox published in Sci Phi Journal
My story The Granddaughter Paradox has been published in Sci Phi Journal, an online journal of science fiction with a philosophical twist (or philosophical fiction with a science fiction twist?) Reading the full…
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…
Le livre d’or de la science fiction: J G Ballard.
On my recent trip to Montmorillon I picked up for six euro a paperback Le Livre d’or de la science fiction: J G Ballard: As French Wikipedia puts it “Le Livre d’or…
Perpetual Motion. Part 4 of 5. Nthposition, Sept 2010
Part 1 here. Part 2 here Part 3 here . Full story here Scene 9. A scene of explication With enormous fanfare, the Creative Online project, or CREON, was launched to…
Séamus Sweeney 