Babushka dolls and the Multiverse

I’m a science fiction writer, as well as a reader, so I tend to think about odd things when my hands are busy and my brain is unattended.

Today I was working on my latest rockery project when I found myself thinking about babushka dolls.

Merry Christmas Eve!

In my family we always keep to the Hungarian tradition of celebrating Christmas on Christmas Eve rather than on Christmas Day, so we’ve just finished our Christmas Eve dinner, capped by a partial giving of presents, and I’m beat.

The problem with science is…

…that we’re all human, and as such, we all have a split personality. On the one hand we are more or less hard wired for rational thought [work with me here please!], but at the same time we have the capacity to live quite happily with paradox. For example, I consider myself to…

Stabbing in China, victims 23, deaths zero

My thanks to Nancy Demarco for alerting me to the stabbings that occurred in China.

The full article I read is here :

Flee — a review

‘Flee’ is a spy thriller by JA Konrath & Ann Voss Peterson. It also happens to be the first Konrath novel I have read. I knew he was one of the most successful — and militant- indie author out there, but I had no idea what kind of a writer he was. Now I know, and I have to say he’s good. Flee was…

Ammunition is the key!

The news here in Australia has been full of the Sandy Hook tragedy. I thought it couldn’t make me cry any more, but then tonight I watched a ‘talking head’ describing the defensive wounds on the dead children. Defensive wounds on hands and arms where they tried to shield themselves from…

Newtown, Sandy Hook — when will the nightmare end?

Otherland, the mmo — beta trailer

It never rains, but it pours… right? Yesterday I gave you Gackt in all his glory, and I’m sure some of you must have wondered what had gotten into me. Go on, admit it. Well, it’s still not safe to go back into the water because today, I’m really letting Meeka loose with…