Author of Muslim Fantasy & Host of the Fantasy & Faith Podcast
This was Orson Scott Card’s first sf and wow, what a debut. Ender’s Game puts Card in the same league as George Orwell, H G Wells and Philip K Dick. This guy was writing about people using UI (Minority Report interface, what you use on iPhone and Android) in 1977, and had kids dumping their […]
Read More Ender’s Game (Ender’s Saga, #1)Poetry Workshop To mark the annual occasion of the Islamic Night of Ascension, I led a creative writing workshop (as part of my day job) with a group of Year 6 students (erm, aged 10?) from two Burnley primary schools, St Peter’s and St Johns. The group was a mixture of boys and girls […]
Read More PoetryNo doubt the economic pressures of the new budget will spark off a fresh round of mental health problems. Job losses like our generation has never seen are about to land very soon; mostly from the public sector and the not-for-profit sector. Even without these extra stress factors people seem to be geared towards depression, […]
Read More Endless Pursuit of DistractionThe UK coalition government has today announced its emergency budget, amongst which, are plans to increase VAT from 17.5% to 20% on 4th January 2011. Publishers and Booksellers were worried that the government may try to get rid of the 0% VAT on books, forcing the prices higher in an already difficult period for book sales. Ebooks and other […]
Read More No VAT on BooksJade Kerrion has announced her first release of 2015: East of the Sun, a short story from The Prometheus Saga. Readers and fans who have enjoyed Earth-Sim will almost certainly enjoy East of the Sun and the other short stories in The Prometheus Saga. Like tributaries of a river, branching through vast lands, the stories […]
Read More Book Announcement and Review: The Prometheus Saga