Lost Cosmonaut (Sample) – Kalmykia
Dirty Police Bastards I It happened in the bus station, as we were hailing a taxi. No sooner had we sat down, than there was a knock on the passenger window. I turned round and saw
Lost Cosmonaut (Sample) – Mari El
7. What is a Mari Anyway? The most famous Finno-Ugric nations are the Hungarians, the Finns and the Estonians. They are descended from a tribe which, it is believed, emigrated west
Lost Cosmonaut (Sample) – Udmurtia
6. My railway carriage contained four humans. Aside from me, there was an old guy in a cheap shiny Russian suit and two women. The old guy liked to touch me. He touched my knee whe
Journey Into The Passed
Scottish writer Daniel Kalder seeks out strange voyages into a disappearing Texas. “The pursuit of nothing is not a bad thing,” Daniel Kalder says. “I don’t
On Strangeness
Daniel Kalder is a Scotsman living in Texas, who has spent a lot of time in Russia. In fact, Russia has become ingrained into his psyche after spending the best part of 10 years in
A Ringing Endorsement
NB 1: Austin TX is home to a joke-telling robot effigy of Lyndon B. Johnson, which I describe below. Welcome to Ringing Endorsement, wherein Decider speaks to local people of note
Excuse Me While I Kiss The Dirt: An elegy for the dream tower
‘And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven…’ (Genesis 11:2) Nikolai Sutyagin’s tower, which I visited in STRANGE
Book Depository Interview
1) What gave you the ideas for Strange Telescopes? A combination of research, good fortune and quite possibly Divine Guidance. I had wanted to write about the Diggers of the Underg
A Top Ten
A semi-arbitrary list prepared for the Book Depository website. The top six are pretty much permanent features in my personal pantheon, the last four open to rotation… The Three