you do know Clarke was gay, right?

in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago?

and then he looks in a mirror and says, Why does it say "pmurt" on my shirt?

sf gotta have spaceships :-)

one of my favourite writers

I like that he has a name tag on his shirt so he knows who he is

Born: UK

Grew up: Middle East

Currently: Swedish

I still marvel at the signed first edition of Heavy Weather I found in a bookshop in Abu Dhabi in the 1990s.

at the next cabinet meeting

"Gold candles, Mr President! Candles made of GOLD!"

he'll stick them on the walls in the Oval Office. Bonus!

I believe Nobel also handed out sticks of something that would make a good prize for Trump

is it from the palace?

I'm just wondering if there's a character called Padlock

another one of my favourite authors

a lot of it is available as ebooks from SF Gateway

because no one reads your serious books

all of them. The Wooding didn't really deserve to be on the shortlist, and I'm a huge Jones fan so obviously she should have won...

tbh, horns are less scary than tentacles

it is here too and I'm well north of you

don't forget when the locals from that pub beat the shit out of the US Army

been meaning to pick up a copy of that for years, but have been holding out for a signed edition

how many Bs in that?

the Tories did this during the 1980s - remember how they kept on redefining who counted as unemployed

It's in the Book of Revolutions

time to put that Second Amendment to the use it was intended instead of killing schoolkids

you are what you read and you've obviously read too much Dick

I was surprised at how much I liked it, especially given what I thought of The Kingdoms

The Mars House, Natasha Pulley A couple of years ago, I read Pulley’s The Kingdoms (2021, UK; see here) and was not impressed. I liked its premise, and some elements of…

I have it on the TBR. Btw, can recommend Natasha Pulley's The Mars House - medium.com/@ian-93054/t...

more likely you'd disappear down some taxidermy rabbit hole and start advocating bad taxidermy as the only real taxidermy