A passion for vinyl
Every year at this time, as trees come into bud and flowers bloom, middle-aged men (and a few women) sleep…
A genial green guide to 2000 AD
I can recall exactly where I was 40 years ago when I didn’t buy the first issue — or ‘prog’…
Jolly good fellows
‘Leonard Michaels (1933–2003) was one of the most admired and influential American writers of the last half century,’ states the…
Grubby, funny shaggy dog story
The Mexican author Juan Pablo Villa-lobos’s first short novel, Down the Rabbit Hole (Fiesta en la madriguera), was published in…
We’re all curators now
In January 1980 Isaac Asimov, writer of ‘hard science fiction’, professor of bio-chemistry and vice-president of Mensa International, penned a…
