Tamarind

Gosh, I’ve been lax about posting updates. Perhaps I’ve been too busy writing, or enjoying our limited post-lockdown freedoms. Anyway, here is a nice new (ish) thing: Tamarind is an interdisciplinary sci-art magazine recently launched by students at Imperial College (where I used to work, a geological age ago). The editors and I had a […]

Recent publications

Here’s a round-up of some recent pubs: My short story ‘Latent Image’ about obsolete technologies and mental illness was published in issue 23 of Gutter Magazine My essay ‘Thirty-six views of the Berlin Wall’ about wandering through Berlin on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Wall is published by The Real Story My […]

‘Uncanny Bodies’ anthology

I’ve been working on this project for a few years and I’m thrilled it’s finally published! ‘Uncanny Bodies’ is an anthology of specially commissioned work by literary types and academics, exploring the concept of the uncanny. According to Freud in his essay of 1919, the uncanny is not the strange, but the familiar become strange. […]

Recent publications

A few things I’ve had published this year: A review of  the film ‘The Invisible Man’ in the TLS. A review of a biography of John Wyndham by Amy Binns, also in the TLS. A flash non-fiction ‘Q is for Quasar’ in Mslexia. An essay ‘Alternative Geometries’ in Litro – about meeting Valentina Tereshkova. Also […]

Arp, Arp and me

Last week I went to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to see Cut and Paste, an exhibition of collages. One of the works included from the early twentieth century is ‘According to the Laws of Chance’, created by the German/French artist Hans/Jean Arp in 1933 when he ripped a sheet of black paper […]

Scotland in Space

I’m part of a project called Social Dimensions of Outer Space and have contributed a short story exploring the notion of a future Scottish spaceport (it’s going to happen, kids) ‘Welcome to Planet Alba’, which will be read and discussed at this event on 23rd May with other SF authors Russell Jones and Laura Lam. […]

Heidelberger Literaturtage

I’m going back to Heidelberg (after being a writer-in-residence there last year) and reading in two events at their ‘Literaturtage’ in May. On 18th May I’ll be reading my essay which examines the meaning of ‘being at home’ in Germany for someone like me, who has German ancestry. Later on that evening I’m reading SF […]

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