Elder Millennials who came of political age under the last Labour government, and remember Jacqui Smith and Charles Clarke and David Blunkett and Jack Straw:

Of all the sci-fi I’ve read, why does it increasingly feel like we’ve slipped into @annodracula.bsky.social’s Dark Future timeline? And without even badass Elvis to rescue us.

Starmer soft-banning Elon from the UK.

And then a cyberpunk novella about fashion design and sadness, rather than katanas and motorbike chases that are inside the internet somehow. So… like playing The Veil ttrpg rather than Cyberpunk 2020?

www.amazon.com/dp/B087YQ81X9

This was the third in a series about gays knocking about in genre sci-fi stories. The first was: what if instead of John Carter of Mars being zapped into a pulpy ‘planetary romance’ action adventure, it was a highbrow, slightly arty drag queen with zero relevant skills.

www.amazon.com/dp/B06XXQGQ3N

My new story is free to download this weekend - Death in Venice meets The Last Of Us on a gay cruise in outer space. Hmm, that pitch needs work… but it is free and all.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTPD2XG3