Some items appear under more than one heading. This list will be updated (periodically) as new posts appear.
Road to Glasgow 2024 (Scottish SFF)
MacLeod, Ken. Newton’s Wake (2004)
Mitchison, Naomi. The Corn King and the Spring Queen (1931)
Interwar Novels as SF/F
Gibbons, Stella. Cold Comfort Farm (1932) as SF Text
Jameson, Storm. In the Second Year (1936) as SF Text
Macaulay, Rose. What Not (1918/2019)
Mitchison, Naomi. The Corn King and the Spring Queen (1931) as SFF Text
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own (1929) as SF Text
‘1970s Feminist & Utopian SF’
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness (1969/2017)
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Dispossessed (1974)
McIntyre, Vonda N. The Exile Waiting (1975/2019)
McIntyre, Vonda N. Dreamsnake (1978/2016)
Russ, Joanna. ‘When it Changed’ (1972) – discussion and reflection on teaching it
Fiction Reviews
Albinia, Alice. Cwen (2021)
Allan, Nina. Ruby (2020)
Atwood, Margaret. MaddAddam (2013)
Byrne, Monica. The Girl in the Road (2014)
Charnock, Anne. Bridge 108 (2020)
Dick, Philip K. Electric Dreams (2017)
Doctorow, Cory. Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003)
Faber, Michael. The Book of Strange New Things (2014)
Hall, Sarah. The Carhullan Army (2007)
Hurley, Kameron. The Stars are Legion (2016)
Hutchinson, Dave. Europe in Winter (2016)
Ings, Simon. The Smoke (2018)
Jones, Gwyneth. Kairos (1988/1995/2021)
Jones, Gwyneth. The Grasshopper’s Child (2014)
Lovegrove, James. Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea Devils (2018)
Macaulay, Rose. What Not (1918/2019)
McAuley, Paul. Beyond the Burn Line (2022)
MacLeod, Ken. Newton’s Wake (2004)
Muir, Tamsyn. Gideon the Ninth (2019)
Penny, Laurie. Everything Belongs to the Future (2016)
Priest, Christopher. The Adjacent (2013)
Priest, Christopher. Airside (2023)
Priest, Christopher. Expect Me Tomorrow (2022)
Priest, Christopher. The Gradual (2016)
Pulley, Natasha. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (2015)
Roberts, Adam. Bête (2014)
Roberts, Adam. By the Pricking of Her Thumb (2018)
Roberts, Adam. Haven (2018)
Saulter, Stephanie. Regeneration (2015)
Sullivan, Tricia. Occupy Me (2016)
Sullivan, Tricia. Sweet Dreams (2017)
Suzuki, Izumi. Terminal Boredom (2021)
Swainston, Steph. Fair Rebel (2016)
Tuttle, Lisa. The Curious Affair of the Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief (2016)
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. Kingdoms of Elfin (1977/2018)
Whiteley, Aliya. Skein Island (2015/2019)
Reviews of Short Story Collections
Mayer, So & Adam Zmith (eds). Unreal Sex: An Anthology of Queer Erotic Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror (2021)
Penner, Robert G. Big Echo Anthology (2021)
Poetry Reviews
Banks, Iain and Ken Macleod. Poems (2015)
Non-fiction Reviews
Bould, Mark, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts and Sherryl Vint (eds). The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009)
Gifford, James. A Modernist Fantasy: Modernism, Anarchism, & the Radical Fantastic (2018)
Jones, Gwyneth. Joanna Russ (2019)
Kincaid, Paul. Iain M. Banks (2017)
Lovegrove, James. Lifelines and Deadlines: Selected Non Fiction (2015)
Morgan, Glyn (ed). Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of the Imagination (2022)
Morgan, Glyn & C Palmer-Patel (eds). Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction (2019)
Roberts, Adam. Rave and Let Die: The SF & Fantasy of 2014 (2015)
Roberts, Jude and Esther MacCallum-Stewart (eds). Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy (2016)
Samer, Rox. Lesbian Potentiality & Feminist Media in the 1970s (2022)
Wolfe, Gary K. Bearings (2010)
Exhibition Reviews
A Tale of Two Fantasy Exhibitions: Rome and London (2023)
GENDERS: SHAPING AND BREAKING THE BINARY (2020)
Awards & Shortlist Reviews
BSFA Awards Best Novel Shortlist (2024)
BSFA Awards: History and New Categories (2023)
Politics and Literature: Reviewing, Criticism and Awards (2023)
Talk on the Clarke Award, 8 September 2023. (2023)
‘The Clarke Award and I: A brief excursion into autobiography, motivations and plans’ (2023)
Hugo Award Best Novel Shortlist (2023)
Clarke Award Shortlist Part One (2023)
Clarke Award Shortlist Part Two (2023)
Brief Thoughts on the Clarke Award Submission List (2023)
Locus and Nebula Shortlists (2023)
BSFA Awards Best Novel of 2022 Shortlist Part One (2023)
BSFA Awards Best Novel of 2022 Shortlist Part Two (2023)
BSFA Awards Best Novel Shortlist Reviews Postscript (2023)
Some Thoughts on the Longlist for BSFA Best Novel Award (2023)
New Publication: ‘Thirty Years is Ample Time: The Clarke Award and Literary Science Fiction’ in Andrew M. Butler and Paul March-Russell, eds, Rendezvous with Arthur C. Clarke: Centenary Essays (2022) (posted 2023)
Looking Back on the 2022 Clarke Award (2022)
BSFA Awards Best Non-Fiction of 2021 Shortlist (2022)
BSFA Awards Best Non-Fiction of 2020 Shortlist (2021)
Hugo & Clarke Awards 2020 Best Novel Shortlists Part One (2020) – i.e. a review of the three novels on both shortlists.
Hugo Award 2020 Best Novel Shortlist Part Two (2020)
Clarke Award Shortlist 2020 Part Two (2020)
BSFA Awards Best Novel of 2019 Shortlist Part One (2020)
BSFA Awards Best Novel of 2019 Shortlist Part Two (2020)
BSFA Awards Best Shorter Fiction of 2019 Shortlist (2020)
BSFA Awards Best Non-Fiction of 2019 Shortlists (2020)
Gender Diversity and ‘Literary SF’ in the run-up to the 30th Anniversary of the Clarke Award (2016). (updated 2020)
Essays and Conference Papers
Christopher Priest: A Remembrance (and a review of Airside) (2024)
BSFA Awards: History and New Categories (2023)
Politics and Literature: Reviewing, Criticism and Awards (2023)
The Generic (SFF) Formula of the Fool’s Errand (posted in 2023)
Some Thoughts on SF Handbooks (2023)
Christopher Priest, ‘Expect Me Tomorrow (2022) and Some Thoughts on Temporal Structure and Whether It is an ‘Overshoot Novel’ (2023)
Christopher Priest and (the Persistence of) the New Wave (2022; updated version of 2016 article in Foundation)
Brief Notes on Cory Doctorow’s Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003): Meritocracy and Reputational Economy (2022)
‘The Woolfian Century: Modernism as Science Fiction, 1929–2029’ (2022) – online article
There is no such thing as Science Fiction/ Modernism/ English Literature (*delete as appropriate) (2022)
The Break-Up of the English Class System as a Comfort Read (2021) – conference paper
‘“Where will it all lead?”: Gwyneth Jones’s Life’ (2021) – conference paper, academic track, DisCon III
Expanded version of my paper on Generation X for ‘Douglas Coupland and the Art of the “Extreme Present”’ (2021) – conference paper
‘The Radical Utopias of Ursula K. Le Guin’ (2021) – Tribune
‘How Sci-Fi Shaped Socialism’ (2020) – Tribune
‘Switching Between the Binaries’ (2020) – conference paper (including Mitchison, Banks, Justina Robson’s The Switch)
Gender Diversity and ‘Literary SF’ in the run-up to the 30th Anniversary of the Clarke Award (2016). – updated (2020) version of Foundation article from 2016
The Gradual (2016) by Christopher Priest: Thoughts on the Dream Archipelago Fictions (2020)
The Legacy of 2000AD: Review-Essay (Part One) (posted 2020; originally 2014)
The Legacy of 2000AD: Review-Essay (Part Two) (posted 2020; originally 2014)
‘Our unique isolationist Brexit cultural identity’: Thoughts about 2000AD (aka Part Three) (2020)
Proletarian Modernism (Edinburgh University Press Blog, 2017)
“The Kind of Woman Who Talked to Basilisks”: Travelling Light Through Naomi Mitchison’s Landscape of the Imaginary (The Luminary 7, 2016)
The Flowers of War (essay about Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army – originally published in Vector 258)
Five English Disaster Novels, 1951-1972 (originally 2005 in Foundation)
Con Reports, Annual Reflections Etc.
Looking Forward at 2024, Or, Should Galadriel Take the Ring? (2024)
Eastercon 2023: ‘And now the conversation has ended …’ (er, not quite just yet) (2024)
2022 Round-Up (2022)
Notes from Chicon8 (2022)
‘Where are the Workers: Class and Caste in SFF’ (2022; this was a panel I was on at Eastercon)
My 2021 in Review (2021)
‘“Where will it all lead?”: Gwyneth Jones’s Life’ (2021; conference paper, academic track, DisCon III)
ConFusion Eastercon 2021 Report (2021)
What I Did in 2020: A Brief Cultural Review (2020)
A Partial Report on Sci-Fi London and the Orcs and Replicants (2020)
Podcasts
Talking about the intertwined history of speculative fiction and socialism (especially William Morris’s News from Nowhere) on The Last Refuge of the Incompetent (2021)
Talking about my book The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question on Suite 212 (2019)
Prospective Cultures 