Every so often some hard core fanzine fan will proudly declaim that science fiction fandom invented fanzines. My reaction to this is to remind them that the idea of the APA dates all the way back to the 19th Century. H.P. Lovecraft was a keen APA...

Yeah, busy with paid work again. SF Signal is starting a series of Mind Meld columns about the “Best of 2009″. My piece will run in a later installment. Personally I’m delighted to see such diversity. Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s obituary for Rob...

It has not been a good week for people dying. Despite having been around UK fandom for 25 years or so, I never got to know Rob Holdstock very well. I have, however, read many of his books, and I continue to maintain that Mythago Wood is one of the...

Via Lynne Kiesling I discovered this story about a data center in Helsinki being located underneath Uspenski Cathedral so that the waste heat from all of the computers can be used to keep the neighbourhood warm. Like Lynne I am impressed by Finnish...

The new issue of Clarkesworld Magazine is now online. In it you can find the following: - “Night, in Dark Perfection”, a story by Richard Parks - “The Grandmother-Granddaughter Conspiracy”, a story by Marissa Lingen (with alien squid) - “If It...