A Random Walk Through Speculative Fiction
The first book review I've written for Luna Station Quarterly has appeared today (Doctor Who novel, nailing my colours to the mast at the start), which is exciting and I urge you all (assuming you're a partaker of speculative fiction) to go and read it, then lose yourselves for a couple of hours in the vastness of their archives. Further reviews should emerge quarterly, in a column I've called 'A Random Walk Through Speculative Fiction', mainly because I'll be reviewing whatever I happen to have stumbled across that's good, so it'll be a bit random (but also because I once did a research project involving random walks, and you know me and maths jokes).
In other exciting news, my friend Alice and I will be holding a story-telling event at the York Festival of Ideas on June 10th (I'd link to their site but it still has the 2014 details up, I've seen a proof of the programme this week and when it's available I'll mention it here). The theme of the festival is Secrets and Discoveries, so our evening will focus on the importance and the dangers of secrets, through myths and fairytales, and a couple of stories I've written (one historical, one sci-fi).
What with all that and the writing workshop I'm going to in the morning, I feel positive and busy, but none of this is getting me any further with editing the sci-fi noir novel...