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A review of Galaktika #236 has appeared on this SF Blog . The reviewer includes my story A Few Good Men as one of the two best stories of the issue. Still not seen my contributor copy, but I'm hoping it will arrive soon.

My 100 word story The Emporer's New Forcefield , first published in Spanish in Efimeras , has been reprinted in Breves No Tan Breves . All of my stories from Efimeras have now been reprinted, but there are still two new stories due to appear in Breves No Tan Breves .

The latest issue of Midnight Street has arrived, and is to be the last print issue. From next year the magazine will be produced in PDF format, but editor Trevor Denyer is also planning to release an annual print anthology. This will contain original stories not seen in the PDF version. I'll be ...

Sooner than I expected, A Few Good Men has appeared in Hungarian magazine Galaktika . This is the third langguage for this story - the Spanish translation appeared in La Idea Fija in June. Hungarian is the 15th language I've been published in and the 11th new language this year.

I've spent quite a bit of time on the Unilang website recently, where I've found links to other language sites and friendly translators and proofreaders. Today I discovered someone looking for people to translate The Owl and the Pussycat . I visited their website , where the poem has been ...

Another Friday Flash Fiction idea that grew beyond its original bounds - Relativity has been through more incarnations than any other story I've written. This week I sold it to Escape Velocity , the hard SF magazine from Adventure Books of Seattle whose UK co-editor lives in Chester. It's due ...

My ongoing quest to discover new worldwide SF markets has led me to find out about many of the regional or minority languages spoken in Europe. One of those is Francoprovençal, spoken by 150,000 people in France, Italy and Switzerland, according to Ethnologue . Like many of these minority ...

Many of the translations of The Gondolier appear on this site rather than an official publication. This is mostly because many of the languages don't have any SF magazines, or even any literary magazines in some cases. Here's a complete bibliography of The Gondolier so far. I'll keep this up to ...

The first time I read the Hitchhiker books there was a gap of several months between each volume. Every time I started a book I struggled to remember what was going on and how Arthur Dent, still in his dressing gown, had ended up in his current situation. The second time I read the series it ...

Far in the future, mankind is ruled with an iron fist by a galaxy-spanning corporation that breeds soldiers, terraforms planets relentlessly and routinely commits genocide. Red Claw takes place on New Amazon, a planet of rampant jungle and insidious wildlife. Professor Richard Helms leads an ...

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is one of those books that made such an impact on its release that it has become a movement as much as a book. The new thirtieth anniversary edition continues the quirkiness of the trilogy, featuring a badge, postcards and a DIY cover with a selection of ...