I love this image - collision of old school art & atomic age SF is absolutely my jam! It's also managed to pull from the depths of my memory how Tarkovsky uses that Breugel painting in Solaris - which leads me straight on to: god, I *really* need to watch Solaris again.

But thank you for checking, I definitely owe you a proper message soon! xxx

Oh no, I'm fine! Just having cause to be wry and cynical about the creative process - doing lots of (somewhat circular) thinking, but very little writing :)

Something something blood of empire etc.

Not short (both run to 6 volumes) but Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan & Cliff Chiang and Descender by Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen are outstanding all-ages SF comics. Hugely recommended.

It's more short-novel/novella length, but Grinny by Nicholas Fisk is the right age range and remains brilliantly scary.

Also, thanks to all the twitter folk who got The Day of the Triffids trending earlier. A moment of the old, fun twitter humour, it made me smile.