January 15, 2026
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A brilliant offer and 15 remarkable books
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Previous newsletter issues, preserved here with their original summaries and links to the hosted email editions.
January 15, 2026
A brilliant offer and 15 remarkable books
September 14, 2024
Life on Europa, and the spaces between
August 31, 2024
Intelligence in Space, and on Earth
August 17, 2024
Blue Mars and Viking Hell
August 3, 2024
Over a million words
Murder in space, Banshees and Alien Kindergarteners
Black Holes, National Parks and the last of the coal.
June 22, 2024
Pulsars, Journalists and Images
June 8, 2024
Airships, Supernovae and Whales
May 25, 2024
Circles, Spheres and lost languages
May 11, 2024
Eels, laser containers, and Martians
April 27, 2024
Voyagers, cicadas and escape rooms
April 13, 2024
VR space probes, fraudulent psychics, and time machines.
March 30, 2024
I'll try and keep this light.
March 16, 2024
Everything is difficult, sometimes.
March 2, 2024
Everything Falls - Meteorites outside Berlin, Utopia in Sicily, Snow in Shropshire
February 17, 2024
Why do we care about our mechanical creations so much?
February 3, 2024
Alien Landscapes on Earth, and a delay to the Moon.
January 20, 2024
Cosmic Megastructures or Cosmic Horrors
January 7, 2024
Happy New Year. New Year resolutions, and why I don't do them.
December 23, 2023
Merry Christmas.
December 9, 2023
Hissing Sid and clockwork orbits.
November 25, 2023
Ice cream, books, and boarding passes.
November 11, 2023
Vegas, rings around the Earth, gremlins.
October 28, 2023
Flooding and similar. Roman forts found by spy satellites. What the Boogeyman looks like around the world.
October 14, 2023
Hot iron and cold weather. A metal asteroid. The strange roots of Rocky Horror.
September 30, 2023
Back to the editing grindstone Mach 5 wind tunnels Hunting for a golden owl.
September 16, 2023
Flash fiction: Tastes great, less filling. Signs of life in a far-off solar system. What we're learning about the druids from archaeology.
January 24, 2022
Ready to launch!
January 10, 2022
Reflecting and looking ahead.
December 22, 2021
Beta reading and life on Mars.
December 13, 2021
Almost the end of the year, and a couple of freebies!
November 22, 2021
Yet more editing... And a probably obvious movie recommendation.
November 8, 2021
Dark nights are here, an interview and more.
October 25, 2021
I've finished the novella! Now I'm deep into the editing... Also 'new' moon rocks.
October 11, 2021
A writing update, Marlin's Media, Halloween and more.
September 24, 2021
I've finished the book! And I'm writing a short novella to go before it. Volcanos on Mars, Asimov's 'Foundation' is a TV series.
September 4, 2021
A writing update, news on my other projects, a friend's Kickstarter and some crow-related oddness.
April 5, 2021
Ingenuity helicopter to perform the first powered flight on another planet, Perseverance rover lasers a rock, and the surprising link to the Wright Brothers.