Stupid myspace
Hi all, Remain calm Graham, it is not the end of the world. I just spent about an hour writing a beautiful post about the emerging writer’s festival only to have it disappear into the ether. I haven’t got a clue what I did or even if I did anything. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Because myspace has previously […]
Emerging Writer’s Festival – Part One
Hi all, Last weekend I went to the Emerging Writer’s Festival held at the town hall in Melbourne. Over the weekend I attended nine panel discussions on various subjects. I found all except one of them of interest. At a cost of $37 it was a bargain for any writer living in Melbourne. I had […]
Time Machines – Repaired While U-Wait, a review
I have always loved a good time-travel story. Bad time-travel stories have someone go back to a time where the protagonist frets about changing the future: will I or won’t I kill Hitler, Jack the Ripper, George Bush, and usually leave me wanting the protagonist to have never been born. Good time-travel stories mainly take […]
Review – The Elves of Cintra, by Terry Brooks
The Elves of Cintra is the second book in the three book Genesis ofShannara series by Terry Brooks. It is probably classified as young adult because the majority of the characters are teenagers, and the series has as its overarching theme that adults destroyed the Earth, so it is up to children/teens to save it. […]
Apologies to blog comment makers
Sorry to those who have made comments that I have seemed to ignore. I had thought that I had set blogger to notify me everytime someone made a comment, as happens with the myspace version of this blog, but obviously I did something wrong. I think I have rectified the problem.
Review – Analog Sept 2001
Hi all, I know it’s not the latest edition of Analog – and I still have plenty of earlier editions to read – but I learn a lot from reading older editions of what is probably the world’s best science-fiction magazine. This time around, the magazine had one novella, one novelette, two short stories and […]
Critiquing.
Hi all, My weekly critters email had a link to a survey on online critiquing. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=aKiQQ2gam6kAeSOypOK8lg_3d_3d I completed the simple survey, which I don’t think will be that informative for the masters student conducting it, unless a lot of people, like me, write lengthy comments in the comments box at the end. The survey listened […]
Review of Greg Egan’s Teranesia
Hi all, I finished Australian author Greg Egan’s science fiction novel Teranesia a couple of weeks ago and have finally gotten around to this review. Egan is probably Australia’s most critically-acclaimed, living, science fiction author – more so overseas than it would seem in Australia. According to the list on the front of the book, […]
Graham’s best of 2008
Hi all, Well it was a lousy year for film, especially in Australia. I didn’t read many novels and commercial television in Australia kept on refusing to run or cut short some of the better science-fiction series going around. At least I have the sci-fi channel on cable – the limited Australian version anyway. Having […]
Review – Analog Dec 1996
Hi all, I very much enjoyed the originality of the stories in the Dec 1996 issue of Analog. In fact, I think it is the most original set of six stories that I have read in a speculative fiction magazine. A Replant Day Carol, by John Vester started off the collection. It was a strange […]