We catch-up in a future parsec

I’ve just been off riding rollercoasters, screaming out my lungs while taking steep drops and swift turns, and this isn’t even a metaphor. I was taking a holiday from metaphors.

Anyway, I got back to find that ParSec magazine is having a promotion – you can get the details here – and there’s a lovely review of issue 2 by Jonathan Thornton, over at the Fantasy Hive. That was the Christmas issue, and my story involved some elves and a death-defying drop into the unknown. Thanks to Jonathan for the review.

Pre-orders are now open for The Utopia of Us, a brilliantly-titled anthology of stories based on Zamyatin’s ‘We’. All the writers involved have written short introductions to their stories and these will be appearing on the Luna Press blog. The brilliant Anne Charnock has kicked them off, and it’s a really interesting read about the influence ‘We’ has had on her own work. My piece will be at the end of May, just before the book is launched, and there will be other events planned around this. I’ll keep you posted.

Also, a big thank you to Rachel Knightley for turning parts of my essay in Writing the Future into handy shareable advice, and writing about her own experience when it comes to research and confidence here. Writing the Future is such a readable and fascinating book that manages to show how wide-ranging and strange science fiction can be – as a form, as an inspiration, as an excuse to go free on the page. There’s no one approach to anything, and certainly not to SF. I like going off the rails a bit, sometimes. But maybe not while I’m on a rollercoaster.

Right, back to the metaphors.

(Not a rollercoaster in the picture but a funicular from my travels. Straight up and down.)