Yesterday, we watched the sixth and final episode of the BBC’s Planet Dinosaur. Entitled “The Great Survivors”, the episode featured one dinosaur I’d not previously heard of, Nothronychus (Wikipedia entry). It instantly became my new vegan hero. Why? Well a clip on the BBC’s website explains: CLIP: Although a close relative of the meat-eating tyrannosaurs, [...]

I’ve previously mentioned that I have a short story in Stone Skin Press’s forthcoming anthology of iconic heroes, The New Hero. It is 1987. With outposts from the frozen moons of Saturn to the burning plains of Mercury, the sun never sets on the British Empire. Peter “Pete” Stone is a member of the Royal [...]