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Jan ’23 – Cold War – How The Cold War Nuclear Arms Race Affected The World…
June ’22 – Two Jubilee Cold War visits…
April ’22 – Peace Camps on standby – it is in nobody’s interest for the UK to allow American nukes on its soil again…
April ’22 – Irresponsible nuclear propaganda from London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan…
Aug ’21 – Visiting the first 3 Martian landing sites in H. G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds”…
Aug ’21 – Greenham Common – nuclear nightmares…
Jul ’21 – We Are Already in a New Cold War…
Jul ’21 – Lots of Progress with my Cold War / New Cold War stories…
Jun ’21 – Astronomers Thrill at Giant Comet Flying into Our Solar System – Scientific American
Feb ’21 – Book review: “A Treachery of Spies” – Manda Scott
Jan ’21 – ‘Sinister yet pathetic’: how the UK was primed for nuclear war | Books | The Guardian
Dec ’20 – John le Carré (David Cornwell) died on 12th December 2020… the master of espionage thrillers was 89 years old.
Nov ’20 – Book review: “The Truth Machine” – James L. Halperin
Oct ’20 – Nuclear weapons treaty campaigners hail new era for nuclear disarmament – BBC news report…
Oct ’20 -NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Seeks to Grab a Piece of Asteroid Bennu – Scientific American
Sept ’20 – Possibility of dark bosons entices physicists – article in Scientific American.
Aug ’20 – Mixed reactions to three stories from 1978, 1989 and 1991…
July ’20 – Hacking attempts continue on my old, mothballed domain…
July ’20 – I’m writing again after a nice long break…
May ’20 – Book review: ‘Diving into the Wreck’ by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Apr ’20 – Choosing how to format your author name…
Feb ’20 – I enjoyed re-reading Nigel Kneale”s 1979 novel ‘Quatermass’.
Feb ’20 – I have just re-read Michael Crichton”s ‘The Andromeda Strain’ (1969) and totally enjoyed it…
Feb ’20 – I have just finished reading ‘Gravity’ (1999) by Tess Gerritsen – I”m so pleased that I did, it is one of the very best science fiction novels I have ever read!
Feb ’20 – I recently visited the RAF Museum near Watford, London…
Feb ’20 – I recently visited the Royal Observatory at Greenwich…
Feb ’20 – I”ve just re-read James Herbet”s 1975 novel “The Fog”…
Feb ’20 – Just shared my latest vlog about progress on the second book in my “Lissa Blackwood” conspiracy-thriller series
Feb ’20 – I had a real ‘boy”s own’ moment while on holiday and sat in the cockpit of a Vulcan bomber!
Feb ’20 – I finally read William Gibson”s ‘Neuromancer’, and it”s awesome!
Feb ’20 – After nearly forty years of trying, I have just finished reading Bram Stoker”s ‘Dracula’
Feb ’20 – More progress on my 2nd “Lissa Blackwood” conspiracy-thriller…

Apr ’19 – Change of style for showing inner thoughts in my writing…
Apr ’19 – Jem’ – Frederik Pohl
Apr ’19 – Approaches to writing Effectively and Efficiently…
Apr ’19 – “As You Like It” – RSC production 17/4/19…
Apr ’19 – “All About Eve” – NT Live, 11/4/19
Mar ’19 – Hellstrom”s Hive’ – Frank Herbert
Mar ’19 – Extinction Game’ – Gary Gibson
Jan ’19 – First Alpha-reader feedback about ‘Evil Eye’…
Jan ’19 – Using a digital voice recorder and YouTube to automatically convert your spoken word into text…

Dec ’18 – I”ve now printed the first 4 alpha copies of “Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller”…
Dec ’18 – Hospital Station’ by James White – first published in 1967…
Dec ’18 – The 10 Rules of Writing Large Casts of Characters…
Oct ’18 – Latest vlog about ‘Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller’…
Sept ’18 – Day Four’ – Sarah Lotz – book review…
Sept ’18 – Which Star Trek movie starring the Original Crew is the best?
Sept ’18 – Why Blake’s 7 remains relevant today, 40 years after it was first broadcast on BBC1…
Aug ’18 – James Phelan – ‘The Spy’ and ‘Dark Heart’…
Aug ’18 – James Phelan – ‘The Hunted’…
Aug ’18 – The best place to begin? John le Carré…
Aug ’18 – The first draft of ‘Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller’ has been completed!
Aug ’18 – ALICE: Where does the Solar System end and inter-stellar space begin?
Aug ’18 – If I could only keep 1 singer from the “80s it would be…
Aug ’18 – Cold War memories…
Jul ’18 – From “Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller”: A walk across London in the footsteps of the Head of SIG, Colonel Peter Carson, DSO with Bar, MC…
Jul ’18 – Space 1999: the problem with Victor Bergman…
Jul ’18 – Crawling around inside Nuclear Bunkers…
Jul ’18 – Just 5 more scenes to go and then the first draft of ‘Evil Eye’ will be complete!
Jul ’18 – Online Science Fiction Book Club: Robert Heinlein Society Panel interview, June 2018…
Jul ’18 – Spectral’ – Netflix (2016)…
Jul ’18 – Born with the Dead’ – Robert Silverberg, 1974
Jun ’18 – Evil Eye – A Lissa Blackwood Thriller
May ’18 – Are “Ghost in the Shell” and “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex” the perfect anime?
Apr ’18 – Thrillers, Espionage and Nietzsche…
Feb ’18 – Smoke Above the Village’
Jan ’18 – Falling in love with ‘Red Dwarf’…
Jan ’18 – Atomic Blonde’ – a great fun film starring Charlize Theron
Jan ’18 – Awestruck by the drive & dedication shown by the climbers in the film ‘Meru’…

Dec ’17 – A review of the books I read in 2017, mostly as preparation for my new post-BREXIT espionage-thriller novel…
Sept ’17 – I”ve just created a new video about my sci-fi adventure novel “Dead Snow”…
Sept ’17 – “This Is Your Revolution”
Sept ’17 – Started my next project: A 3-book series of Conspiracy-Thrillers based in the post-BREXIT world…
May ’17 – ‘Dead Snow’ is now getting great reviews and 4.5 stars on Amazon!
Apr ’17 – “Dead Snow” is now published in paperback and on the Amazon kindle…
Jan ’17 – Completed the first draft of “Dead Snow”…

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