Does my photo appear?
Hi all, Yesterday an acquaintance was looking at my blog and the photo did not appear. They had just upgraded their computer to windows 2007 so that might have been the problem as the photo always appears for me. I was wondering if my computer has to be on for the photo to appear (I […]
Survival for 21st Century Writers.
Hi all, The transcript of the coyotecon.com online speculative fiction convention session Survival for 21st Century Writers is available here. I attended the session in which Scott Nicholson predicts that the ebook market will quickly be dominated by $2 ebooks and by the end of the decade most ebooks will be free. See my previous […]
transcript for Well Rounded Worlds session coyotecon.com
Hi all, The transcript for the Well Rounded Worlds session (which I attended) at the coyotecon.com online speculative fiction convention is available here.
Price of ebooks
Hi all, Critters.com have been running a survey on what a fair price for an ebook is. The average price respondents have suggested is US$7.78 for a new release and $4.60 for a back list book. Seeing as though most of the people who join critters would one day hope to be published authors, a […]
Review of Greg Egan’s Incandescence
Incandescence is a science-fiction novel set millions of years in the future. Humans have evolved into immortal data streams that can travel through the galaxy on cosmic rays and reconfigure themselves in any shape they desire. They are know as the Almalgam. At the core of the galaxy live the mysterious Aloof, who have rejected […]
Cataract Surgery, part two.
Hi all, It seems that my right eye has survived cataract surgery – wait a sec while I touch some wood. I had it done on Tuesday and went and saw the ophthalmologist, or Dr Nick as he is called (no relation to Dr Nick in the Simpsons), yesterday. He said everything is fine. When […]
Year Million, ed by Damien Broderick, a review.
Damien Broderick is one of Australia’s more prolific writers. I’ve enjoyed a number of his novels and thought his short story collection, The Dark Between the Stars, was the best single-author science fiction collection that I’ve read. His non-fiction book The Spike had a big effect on how I think about the future. Humanity might […]
Why I did very little writing this week 3(3)
Hi all, Well another week of dramas has just passed. I have left out a lot of detail in what has been going on with my father, his behaviour is so out of character and strange that I feel if I describe it on this blog it will just take away any dignity he has […]
Graham’s best science fiction of 2009
I wasn’t going to do a best-of list for 2009 because I feel a bit like a fraud given how little I read last year, but I did watch a few science-fiction movies and a lot of television, so, in the hope of starting a tradition, here is my belated list. I read a whole […]
Australia’s health system sucks.
My father has survived, we think, the removal of a tumour on his bladder, but still can’t urinate. The Albury Private Hospital wanted him out on Friday. But then found he couldn’t urinate, so they hooked him up to a colostomy bag and said we could take him, knowing full well, that because of his […]