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The Godless by Ben Peek – review

The Godlessby Ben Peek is the first in the “Children”trilogy. Peek made big news last year with the sale of this trilogy to Tor UK, a major sale for an Australian author.

I’ve enjoyed Peek’s shorter work …

Dimension 6 – Issue 3 available now

The latest edition of Keith Stephenson’s excellent Dimension6 is now available. I’m an affiliate site forDimension6 so you can download the issue in either .mobi or .epub format, or you can go to the Dimension6 website to do…

Monthly Round Up – August and September 2014

Two months for the price of one – I got to mid September and realised that I hadn’t written an August round up, and by the time I had written it up it was almost time for the September version.…

Authentic Empathy to be published on Antipodean SF

Nuke, the editor over at Antipodean SF , recently put a call out for stories to include inthe upcoming 200th issue. He asked for people that had previously published in the magazine, and was particularly interested in people whose…

Galactic Chat interview – Alex Adsett

Long term gentle readers of the blogare aware of my dalliance with theGalactic Chat podcast, interviewing the occasional unsuspecting member of the Australian speculative fiction communitybefore their agent tells them it is a bad idea.

Well, …

Rabbits, turtles and binge TV watching

Does anyone else remember the time in the 90s when commercial TV wasn’t showing Star Trek: TNG or Deep Space 9 in any kind of consistent order, and you suddenly discovered that your local Video Ezy was bringing VHS tapes…

Galactic Chat – Ion Newcombe interview

Regular blog lurkers will know that I have been helping out with the Galactic Chat podcast, interviewing the occasional unsuspecting member of the Australian speculative fiction community when they can’t think of an excuse to get out of it…

Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier – review

This review forms part of my contribution to theAustralian Women Writers 2014 Reading Challenge. All my 2014 AWWC reviews can be found.

Winter Be My Shieldby Jo Spurrieris the firstbook in the Children …

2014 Aussie Spec Fic Snapshot

The Aussie Spec Fic Snapshot (the Snapshot) is something that has happened every couple of years over the last 10 years or so. Basically, a group of bloggers get together and try to interview as many people as they can…

Monthly Round Up – July 2014

Not a lot read through the month of July. I’m afraid family, work and writing are combining to chew up a lot of my free time. I recently discovered that some fine folk had ported the old D&D games Baldur’s…