Subterranean Press is a Michigan-based publishing house best known for high-end hardcovers and limited editions, mostly covering horror, fantasy, suspense, and SF. Their stuff really stands out. Probably because the list is editorially-led in the old school fashion; publisher William Schafer is guided by his own taste and enthusiasms, and he’s built up relationships with…

NASA ran an online vote in which people were invited to pick the design for the Z2 spacesuit. Although to be honest, the only real difference in the three choices was in some irrelevant bits of trim. Those of us who grew up through SF’s golden years will find the new look somewhat familiar… Though…

Four of my backlist titles are lined up for launch, and the first of them is now up and available as an Amazon exclusive; Nightmare, with Angel will be followed over the coming weeks by ebook editions of White Bizango, The Spirit Box, and Red, Red Robin. Nightmare, with Angel is the manhunt/Eurothriller that earned…

Ah, Saturn 3. While I won’t make any claims for its quality, it did play a crucial part in my early career – I novelised it during the ITV strike of 1979, and the experience was key to my going freelance a few months later. Until then I’d fitted my writing in around the day…

For the first time in Ebook form:

Dogged by controversy after last year’s all-male shortlist, the organisers of the Arthur C Clarke awards have responded in 2014 by raising the profile of female authors, publishing a separate list of the submissions from women writers. Guardian Books Blog, January 17 When I served on the World Fantasy Awards jury a couple of years…