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
Hi all, I wasn’t going to do a best of list for 2009 because I felt like a bit of a fraud with my lack of reading last year, but I did watch a few science-fiction movies and a lot of television so, in the hope of creating some sort of tradition, here is my […]
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 […]
My Cataract Surgery.
Hi all, I know a few readers of this blog are considering undergoing cataract surgery, so I have decided to write a post on my experience, so far. About four months ago I had conjunctivitis which left me with one very pink left eye, and not so pink right eye. It cleared quickly but I […]
Out Damned Spot
Hi all, Over the past few months my vision has been losing focus, especially after a bout of conjunctivitis about two months ago. I began to interrogate my eyes by reading with one or the other closed and discovered the left eye, the one most badly affected by conjunctivitis, had an opaque patch, right in […]