>The protagonist of Kim Stanley Robinson’s sublime Antarctica is called X. It’s a nickname actually, but I’m pretty sure his real name’s never mentioned. Chapter
>It looks like much of my output this year will be entirely invisible. At least, I’ll be invisible – you’ll still be able to read
>… in The Wizard of Oz. All the more amazing when you consider it was a live stage effect, achieved by puppeteering a giant cotton
>Why do I like speculative fiction? Am I hard-wired that way? Is there a gene? Was I abducted by aliens as a small child and
>.. so use them only in case of emergency.
>The US-based Global Language Monitor reckons a new English word is coined every 98 minutes, and that we’ve just hit the “one million words in
Graham Edwards 