E D I T O R I A L . 1

29th August 2000

As this is the first editorial, I'd like to take this opportunity to put a few things down on record.

If you've had a look around the website already, you'll have see that it's mostly text-based. That is intentional. It's also almost entirely comprised of things I've written over the past few years. That is inevitable.

This may seem madly egotistical. But, if you're not interested, no-one's forcing you to stick around.

The site is, as much as anything, a way - for myself - of storing and retrieving things I've written. Having twice upgraded (once from an Amstrad to a Mac, once from a Mac to an iMac), I know what a pain transferring and updating files is. Hopefully, HTML is a more transfer-friendly format.

Making this public doesn't mean that I think my least scribbling is of any general interest. Believe me, my least scribbling hasn't made anywhere near Dreamweaver 3.0.

However, there are one or two pieces - particularly of journalism - which I thought were alright, but which never got used. For example, the Pulp piece I wrote for The Big Issue.

There are several stories which, although I like them as much as those in Adventures, or those which have been printed in various magazines, didn't find any editorial friends. Wife, for instance, or Die Frau Ohne Schatten.

I'm also pleased to be able to recommend, in whatever limited way this site allows me, some of the writing that I've read recently, and that I think worth your while. The Age of Wire and String is a book I think anyone interested in really exciting contemporary fiction should read.

In future, I'd like to include a few more links to the websites of other writers. At the moment, I have the wonderful jimgiraffe.com [link now dead 9.3.01] and the still-being-created Digital Horror [try link at your own peril].

And so I hope you'll find the site gives you as many interesting ways out as ways in.