When Jonathan Strahan asks you to write a story, you write him a story. So that’s what I did. The theme of his new anthology (Drowned Worlds) was pretty broad, and it mapped right onto something I’d been pondering for a while. (All my Twinmaker stories this year are ones I’ve given a lot of […]
In Your Face is the controversial new anthology from Fablecroft, featuring stories by Cat Sparks, Angela Slatter, Alan Baxter, and many more. It also contains a short but disturbing story by me set in the Twinmaker universe, called “Lust, Entrapment & the Matter Transmitter: A Case Study”. I’ve written about it here before. My desire […]
I won a prize in the WOTF contest in 1992 and attended the workshop and awards ceremony in 1993. My story was published in Volume 9 of the annual anthology and was at that stage my highest-earning piece of fiction, by a long way. In 2003, I was invited to write an essay about life […]
When you’re not reading your copy of Instant Elsewhere, here’s some nightmare material to haunt your sleep. These come courtesy of Google’s Deep Dream Generator, whereby you feed images into AI the wrong way, producing strangely mutated visions that look like a cross between Van Gogh and Giger. (Van Giger? Now there’s a username.) Just […]