Yesterday, I read Baxter & Pratchett's Long Earth, set 10-ish years in the future where people have realised they can [to use a NacMacFeegle term] craw-step sideways into one of those parallel Earths that in 1957 Hugh Everett postulated may be there. Mr E from Eels' dad, gently opening the door to a new sort of philosophical quantum mechanics, and ( Read more... )

The BBC has the first part of Terry Pratchett with Alzheimer's up, till Wednesday. It's a good programme. But quietly increasingly upsetting. Watch ye.