Tony Ballantyne

I saw the film Everybody Digs Bill Evans earlier this week, at the excellent Home Manchester.

The User Manual appears in the September/October 2026 Issue of Analog The story continues the Fair Exchange series that has been appearing in Analog over the past few years.

I recently read an article by a developer about having their work rejected because they used AI in its development.

The post title sounds quite impressive until you realise I learned it from a song by Rush.

According to Wikipedia, The Darlington Bus War was a series of events between 1986 and 1995 in the UK bus industry in the town of Darlington, County Durham, culminating in the wholesale entry of Stagecoach Group onto the Darlington bus scene, and the coll…

My favourite sketch on the recent series of SNL UK was the British Pork Sketch.

Last week I went to my first ever writing retreat.

There’s an old railway line near my house which has been converted into a path.

Imagine our protagonist has invited a date for dinner.

Here’s something to think about on Inspiration Thursday There are number of SF stories set on ships travelling between the stars.

I was going to post this last week but I was too excited by the Artemis launch… The first time I went to Spain it seemed so alien.