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Review of Timesplash by Graham Storrs

I enjoyed this novel by Australian Graham Storrs. It is about terrorists going back in time and causing mayhem, resulting in ripples in time. These ripples splash through to the present causing havoc capable of destroying cities. After a friend

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Media’s standards are slipping.

Hi all, I have been marvelling at the incompetence of the media lately. I have noticed technical and intellectual stuff ups all over the place. Last night I was watching the local Prime news and for the third time in

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Aussiecon4 – editing panels.

Hi all, I attended two sessions on editing at Aussiecon4. Editing the Novel. Panellists were: Simon Spanton editor at Gollancz; Zoe Walton a publisher at Random House; science fiction author and freelance editor Jean Johnson; and Ace editor Ginjer Buchanan.

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Stop to smell the roses

Hi all, It’s one of those rare occasions that I have the house to myself. On these occasions, I usually take a holiday from my disciplined program of exercise, knowledge gathering and writing activities. I usually watch a few videos,

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Aussiecon 4 – The market sessions

Hi all, I have finally gotten around to writing a post about three marketing sessions I attended at Aussiecon4. My first attempt got lost on a click on my mouse and since then I have been busy. Well, busy for

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Aussiecon 4 – The Climate Change Panels (Part 2)

Hi all, I attended four climate change sessions at Aussiecon 4, two of them I wrote about in my last Aussiecon post. Designer Planet: Averting Climate Change with Geoengineering. This session was conducted solo by science fiction author Gregory Benford.

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Aussiecon 4 – The Climate Change Panels (Part 1)

Hi all, I attended four panels on climate change at Aussiecon. Kim Stanley Robinson appeared on three of them. He appeared to be a committed environmentalist who hopes that humanity, and Americans in particular, will change their behaviour to solve

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Aussiecon 4 – Young Adult Panels.

Hi all, At Aussiecon 4 I attended three panels specifically targeted at writers of young adult fiction.Border Crossing: YA Authors Writing for Adults.Panelists: Cory Doctorow (Canadian sci-fi novelist), Alison Goodman (Australian fantasy novelist) Marianne De Pierres (Australian sci-fi novelist) and

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My writing week 3 (36) – More on Aussiecon

Hi all,I caught a cold at Aussiecon: my brain must have been too busy processing information from the 18 panels I attended to direct my immune system. I tried to write this post yesterday, but my brain was too busy

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Red Queen, H.M. Brown, A review.

Hi all, I decided to read Red Queen, by Australian author H.M. Brown, after reading a review of it in The AGE. The review was positive and said that the novel had won last year’s Aurealis award for best horror

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My vote for the Hugo nominated novella.

Hi all, I finally finished reading the best novella nominees for the Hugos. They were not small, with the average size being about 100 pages. I thought a couple of the nominees were more fantasy than science fiction. I had

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