Readings

The Catholic church is ready for aliens, theologically speaking. But extraterrestrials could mean bad news for more than just religious doctrine, and there's a chance they'll be nothing like we expect.

A new series in which the author witnesses and reports on the proceedings at Small Claims court. The case here described is real, though names have been changed and some details and times condensed.

In the shadows of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the author of The Magic of Saida and The Assassin's Song discovers a landscape haunted by traces of the First World War's East Africa campaign. Here, two empires clashed, drawing the region's peoples into the bloody vortex that was then consuming Europe. Though hardly discussed today, the fighting altered the course of a nation.