Doing better than anything Led Zeppelin ever released

Or anything taken from Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. Or I Ran, by Flock of Seagulls. Or Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams. Or - and this one leaves my gob more than mildly smacked - Bowie’s Changes. But only, I hasten to add, if you restrict that apparently outrageous claim to singles released in the UK.

Because, this blog is in the UK Top 20.  Of science fiction blogs. Which is a far more important top whatever to be in, as I'm sure you'll agree.

Apparently what you're reading, right here, right now, is a "thought-provoking commentary on the genre's storytelling nuances... a blend of sharp critique and personal insight reflecting on how narrative elements—ranging from hard sci-fi concepts to surreal imaginings—should balance credibility and creativity.. exploring the thematic intricacies of fiction while raising questions about plausibility in speculative storytelling, emphasizing both intellectual engagement and entertainment."

Bloody hell. I am humbled. And more than delighted to find out I have, apparently, 36 Twitter followers which, given I don’t tweet - at least with any authorial hat on - I take to be an act of faith on a par with booking hotel rooms in Baku in order to see the ‘Orns lift the European Cup in 2027.

I would, however, take slight issue in the claim that I only post monthly, when only nine out of the last 128 months have been single-serving months, and only two years in the last decade have had fewer than two dozen musings.

Signing out on October's second post.

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My Thoughts are with You. Your Thoughts are with the Authorities for Calibration Against Societal Norms.

Award-nominated science fiction and slipstream author Robert Bagnall’s second anthology of twenty-four stories, variously bleak, funny, bleakly funny or – very occasionally – optimistic.

  

2084 - The Meschera Bandwidth

2084. The world remains at war.

In the Eurasian desert, twenty-year old Adnan emerges from a coma with memories of a strictly ordered city of steel and glass, and a woman he loved.

The city is the Dome, and the woman... is Adnan's secret to keep.

Adnan learns what the Dome is, and what his role really was within it. He learns why everybody fears the Sickness more than the troopers. And he learns why he is the only one who can stop the war.

Persuaded to re-enter the Dome to implant a virus that will bring the war machine to its knees, the resistance think that Adnan is returning to free the many - but really he wants to free the one.

24 0s & a 2

Twenty-four slipstream stories.  Frequently absurd, often minimifidian, occasionally heroic.
“Brilliant stories, well written!” (five stars, Amazon).