My essay ‘A random walk between Germany and Scotland’ is included in ‘A Place They Called Home’; an anthology of work by Jewish people exploring their new German citizenship, edited by Donna Swarthout and published by Berlinica Press.
A Year of Scottish Poems
My poem ‘Physics for the unwary student’ (one of the Best Scottish Poems of 2016) is included in a beautiful new anthology; ‘A Year of Scottish Poems’, edited by Gaby Morgan and published by Pan Macmillan.
Best Sci-Fi of the year!
The German translation of my short story collection, ‘Von der Notwendigkeit, den Weltraum zu Ordnen‘, is one of the best SF books of the year, according to Tor-online.de. I’m all smiles…
‘Moonrise’ and ‘Lost Mars’ SF anthologies review
I recently had published in the TLS a review of two SF anthologies; ‘Moonrise’ and ‘Lost Mars’, both edited by Mike Ashley and published as part of the Science Fiction Classics series by the British Library.
Multiverse – SF poetry anthology
I’m chuffed that four of my poems are included in Multiverse, the upcoming anthology of SF poetry to be published by award-winning Shoreline of Infinity (British Fantasy Society Award 2018 for best magazine!) in December.
Scottish Review of Books essay
I recently had an essay published in Scottish Review of Books about my stay in Germany and my German ancestry. I’m currently writing a longer piece about this subject.
Suffrage Science awardee – Susan M. Gaines
Two years ago I was nominated for a Suffrage Science award. This was and is a terrific honour – Suffrage Science awards are given to women who have contributed to science (including writing about science). The biologist and author Dr Jenny Rohn nominated me and I received a lovely brooch (which I never to dared […]
Re-reading Orwell
‘Down and Out in Paris and London’ is one of my favourite books. I first encountered it when I was about 14 or 15 years old, a pretentious teenager who liked to wander around with books that I thought would show how clever I was, without actually going to the bother of reading them. (In […]
Fiction Lab’s 10th anniversary at the Royal Institution
I’m taking part in a discussion at the Royal Institution in London about science and fiction, on Monday 11 June. This is to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Fiction Lab, the monthly science book club set up by Jenny Rohn (scientist, author and editor of Lablit). I’ll be on a panel with her, Philip Ball […]
Science meets science fiction: near-future fictions
One of my short stories is taking part in an event at Waterstones, Tottenham Court Road in London on 13 June (I won’t be there in person unfortunately). The event is organised by Virtual Futures and uses three stories written by myself, Geoff Ryman and Stephen Oram inspired by our recent visit to the neuroscience […]