Cromercrox
is an author who lives in Cromer, Norfolk, England, with his family and numerous pets. He enjoys writing, playing rock organ, beachcombing, supporting Norwich City FC, and falling asleep. By day he is a Senior Editor of a well-known weekly professional science journal beginning with N, whose parent organisation wishes it to be known that none of the views expressed on this blog are theirs, because they don't know where they've been.Twitstorm
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... is a long way away from anywhere, and if I were you, I shouldn't start from here. By the time you get to the outskirts of Cromer, any distinctions between science, beachcombing, social commentary, writing and animal husbandry have started to blur. When the process is complete, you know you've arrived at the End Of The Pier Show. So, welcome. Find somewhere to park your unicycle. Pull up agirrafechair. Make yourself comfortable.-
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The Sunday Sci-Fi
Every so often someone on this site or elsewhere asks for recommendations for good science fiction to read. I’ve read several wonderful SF books recently, so as a public service I’d like to recommend them here. I’ve based this post … Continue reading
Very Quick Book Advert , Pass It On
Just a quick note from Eastercon, the British SF Con currently taking place in Bradford. I’m doing a promotion of my SF trilogy THE SIGIL. you can download Book 1, SIEGE OF STARS for FREE this weekend only from Reanimus … Continue reading
Bowson
At this very moment, Crox Minor is on a school trip to the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) where she’ll visit the Large Hadron Collider (A school trip! In my day we were lucky to get a day-trip to … Continue reading
It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #1722
This notice found pasted to the door leading to the attic room in a gloriously higgledy-piggledy secondhand bookshop, recently. The final invocation imprecation instruction in particular is awfully suggestive of tales of gothick horror perhaps yet to condense from the … Continue reading
Mentl
I’ve been moithering about whether to write this post for some time – the reasons for such moitherment will, I hope you’ll see, become clear – but the case has become erumpent for reasons of campaigns such as this and, … Continue reading
Decisions
Quite a lot has happened in the Maison des Girrafes during 2011. Crox Minima started at high school, making her Dad proud, and Crox Minor was Bat-Mitzvah, bringing tears of joy to the eye of this atheist (Jewish Section); The … Continue reading
The Real Meaning of Chanukah
Yesterday was the First Night of Chanukah; today is the Solstice; so here is an old essay of mine that comes out at this time of year as regularly as the Chanukah Bush is erected in the drawing room, baubles … Continue reading
Space
As you both know, I am not a great fan of manned space exploration. To qualify that, though, I think the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS) constituted an expensive distraction after the heroic Apollo missions, during which … Continue reading
Words Like Bullets
‘Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.’ What is one to make of … Continue reading
And Now, From Norwich
One of the perks of being an editor with your favourite weekly professional science magazine beginning with N is that I get to go to two or three international conferences a year, as well as visiting labs and generally hanging … Continue reading
