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Listening to audiobooks: Oryx and Crake, Never Let Me Go and Fay
About a month ago I started a new job that involves a hell of a lot of driving, so I thought I’d invest in a cheap mp3 player and some audiobooks. Three novels that I’ve managed to get through so far...
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Aussie Snapshot 2012
Start over here at Alisa Krasnostein’s blog for links to dozens and dozens of interviews with various people in the Australian speculative fiction scene. There should be over 100 by June 8th, and they...
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Book Review – Epilogue, edited by Tehani Wessely
Epilogue is the latest offering from Fablecroft Publishing, an Australian small speculative fiction press that specialises in themed spec fic anthologies. For this volume, editor Tehani Wessely has...
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Book Review – Precious Artifacts: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography by Henri...
Precious: Artifiacts: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography is another worthy contribution to the world of PKD appreciation from the mind of David Hyde, a.k.a. Lord Running Clam. Hyde has a long history in the...
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Book Review – The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike
Philip K. Dick’s mainstream novels, all but one of which remained unpublished until after his death in 1982, are normally regarded as the poor cousins of his science fiction works. To an extent this...
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The 2012 KSP Speculative Fiction Writers Group Minicon
Below are the details for the imminent (and eminent) KSP Speculative Fiction Group Minicon, to be held at the KSP Writers Centre in Greenmount next Sunday, the 9th of September. You live in Perth and...
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The inaugural Avon Valley Writer’s Festival is coming!
This is the programme for the Inaugural Avon Valley Writer’s Festival to be held on the 22nd and 23rd of September in Northam and Toodyay. I’m presenting one of the workshops, as are a number of other...
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Writer of Interest – Graham Greene
I first read Graham Greene in 2002, when I was around 20-21 years of age, at a time when I was supposed to be working on my Honours thesis. I remember this distinctly: in the course of around six...
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Admitting you have a problem… Or: A Massive Reading/Buying List
I am a compulsive book buyer. Compulsive reader too (I read 50-60 books a year) but I probably buy twice as many a year as I read. Worse, if I particularly adore a writer, I have the urge to buy shiny...
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Book Review – My Soul Cried the Spaceman by Levin A. Diatschenko
Levin A. Diatschenko’s speculative fiction novel My Soul Cried the Spaceman is a psychedelic romp reminiscent of the work of New Wave SF authors like Barry N. Malzberg and Philip K. Dick, not to...
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Bruce Gillespie’s SF Commentary 83 and 84 published!
Bruce Gillespie’s SF Commentary 83 and 84 are out and freely available on efanzines.com. That’s well over 200 pages of SF criticism, reviews and letters. Seriously, if you are into SF then you need to...
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I’m a Katharine Susannah Prichard Emerging Writer in Residence for 2013!
I’m very pleased to report that I have been successful in gaining a residency at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre for 2013! Each year, KSP (which is located in Greenmount, Western...
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The Next Big Thing?
I’ve been asked by several writers (specifically Martin Livings, Lee Battersby and Andrez Bergen) to participate in the ‘Next Big Thing’ Q&A. It’s my turn to post my responses, and I hereby decree...
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What I read in 2012, and some books to start 2013 with
Books read in 2012 I managed to hit 70 books read in 2012, which I’m very pleased about. This is the highest number I’ve read in a year since I began documenting my reading fully in 2008. This year I...
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Book Review – Pulling Down the Stars by James Laidler
James Laidler is the author of the verse novel The Taste of Apple which won the IP Picks Best First Book award a couple of years back, and now he’s followed that up with his second novel, Pulling Down...
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Yellowcake Summer: progress report 2/1/2012
Last summer (’11/’12) I started working on the sequel to Yellowcake Springs, entitled Yellowcake Summer. As usual I managed to get the thing half done in the six weeks I had available to me, so now...
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Yellowcake Summer is in Second Draft state!
After many, many hours of editing over the past couple of weeks, I’ve managed to get the ms. of Yellowcake Summer up to what I call ‘Second Draft’ status. This means that I’ve cut out nearly 15,000...
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ALIEN SKY available 3-13-13
Reblogged from exlibrislarsen: Pick up a copy of ALIEN SKY, featuring my short story, "Freestone", beginning March 13. You will be able to buy ALIEN SKY, edited by Justin Nicholes, through Amazon.com,...
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Emerging Writer in Residence events at the KSP Writers Centre
As part of my upcoming Emerging Writer in Residence stint at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre in Greenmount, WA, I’ll be hosting two events: a publishing workshop and a literary dinner....
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Tincture Journal Issue One is out now!
Tincture Journal Issue One, which contains my story “Blue Swirls”, is out now! Available as an ebook only, a Tincture will cost you $8 from the publisher’s website in .mobi or .epub formats. I’ve had...
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