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I posted last year a bunch of interviews I conducted for technology news site Infotec . Since then, I've done a load more for Infotec an...

Gosh, this is good — and thrilling, disturbing and difficult to put down. Annie Bot is all told from the perspective of a robot owned by 34...

Through my day job as a journalist for Infotec.news, I spoke to Rebecca Paddick at Mantis PR for the latest episode of their Tech to Transfo...

I've really enjoyed this new six-part series on Curiosity Steam , with my hero James Burke returning to the subject of the unexpected hi...

Agoraphobic detective Elijah Baley is sent to the wide open spaces of the planet Solaria to investigate a murder. This is a planet where peo...

I couldn't resist this memoir of the first moon landing by the man who stayed in orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to...

  Since April, I've been working as a journalist for technology news site Infotec.news, focused on the public sector and local governmen...

Last week I hosted an event for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain with the last two winners of our Best First Novel Award - Aamina Ah...

I've set up an account on Mastodon, if that might be of interest: @0tralala on Mastodon

I've had the most amazing few days in Geneva as a guest of Ideas Square at CERN . It's the first time I've been out of the UK in...

Two years ago, Backlisted devoted an episode to  The Inheritors , the second novel by William Golding, author of  The Lord of the Flies . Ev...

Klara and the Sun  reminded me chiefly of the  Isaac Asimov story,  Reason , which so beguiled me as a child. Klara is an AF - or "arti...

The third book in the Lady Astronaut series (after  The Calculating Stars  and  The Fated Sky ) is another triumph, and having struggled to ...

This is the second of 12 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation recommended to me. The first one was 1.13 Datalore . We begin 2.9 ...