Science Fiction

I began reading Science Fiction when I was ten ( a year after I discovered Georgette Heyer
and it has formed a mainstay of my reading ever since.

This part of my page will provide links to sites dealing with some of my favourite authors and issues in Science Fiction. Amongst my favourite writers, whom I shall try to feature here, are Michael Moorcock, Ursula K Le Guin, Sheri S Tepper, Samuel R Delany, CJ Cheryh and Terry Prachett. These are of course only a few of the writers who have made an impact on me.

As well as links to other pages I hope to include links to my own writings (if I ever find hard copies of the stories I lost when my computer crashed)

As well as reading, I have also enjoyed attending SF cons in New Zealand but for the last few years I have been working in the United Arab Emirates and there are no Cons for me here. I did however manage to attend the 2002 Discworld Convention in Hinkley which was a high opint of my summer. I would like to try to maintain a list of con sites on the web and if you are having an SF con I will happily post an anouncement on my Page with any Information you want to email me.

This is a longish narrative poem which I submitted to an SF Short Story Competition a while ago and Joe Haldeman was nice enough to give me first prize for it - I have tried to shape and refine it since then - but it is still in many ways a work in progress - and now it can progress to you. I have been told it is disturbing (it was meant to be) and it has been both criticised and praised for it's handling and choice of subject matter. Less SF and more set in a generalised fantasy universe where all things are connected and what goes around ....

Some SF sites on the Web

CJ Cherryh

Cherryh is one of the most wide ranging talents in Science Fiction with a great feel for the construction of the alien mind. Amongst my personal favourite writings by Cherryh are the Chronicles of Morgaine and the novels set in the universe of Downbelow Station.

Michael Moorcock

Moorcock is the Author of my adolesence and, with a fresher eye, of my adulthood. He is, to my mind, the most masterful fantasist of all ( not excepting Gabrielle Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie or Italo Calvino) - able to take strands of myth, science and imagination and bind them together so tightly it is impossible to tell which is which. From his early (and still vivid) pulp fantasies to his later novels - each one sculptured from common material, Moorcock draws you not into his world, but his multiverse. An upcoming feature of my site will be a page dedicated to his work, in the meantime, check out the link above. Oh yes, and he also features on my music page

Samuel R Delany

Samuel R Delany is, for me, the James Joyce of Science Fiction, not only for Dhalgren, his novel of fractured space and time, but for the way that he constantly uses and reuses language. His writing is layered and jewel-like,catching the light of the readers mind in unexpected patterns. Sharply realised short stories, intricately worked novels, crystaline non fiction prose, and a linked sequence of all three (Return to Neveryon) are all part of this writer's repetoire.

Ursula Le Guin

Information about Sheri Tepper, Joanna Russ and the host of

Terry Pratchett

This is one of the most comprehensive guides to web related Terry Pratchett material. Pratchett is undoubtedly the most accomplished humorist in the English language of this or any other century. No, this is not in my humble opinion, I'm afraid it is a truth as fundamental as the ... er ... roundness of the earth. Forget Twain, P.G. Wodehouse, Thorne Smith, Tom Sharpe and Douglas Adams. Sure these writers all have a certain trenchantly amusing way with words, but their wit shrivels next to the genius that is Pratchett.

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