In an attempt to motivate myself, I decided at the start of this year to write a monthly blog post about my writing efforts for the previous month. Novel Writing. I am still writing Branded, a science fiction young adult novel.
How did Zoo City win the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award? Not that it’s a bad book; it is a enjoyable, imaginative, and well-written novel. The problem is science does not drive its plot, so it is not science fiction.
A request on my blog’s Facebook page asked if I could follow up my last post with lists of the bestselling fiction books of 2014. As I write adult and young adult fiction, I decided to include both in the
The 2014 top ten bestseller lists for books in Australia, the UK, and the US point to a book-buying world dominated by movies, games, children and teenagers. Top ten bestsellers in Australia. The 52-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry
In an attempt to motivate myself, I have decided to write a monthly blog post about my writing efforts for the previous month. Novel Writing. I am currently writing a young adult novel, Branded. I wrote the first chapter as
For the second year in a row, I have done a simple analysis of the Goodreads’s Choice Awards for science fiction novels. Members of the Goodreads website vote on the awards. Fifteen books were nominated based on their review ratings on
I wrote a bit this year, but nowhere near enough. My Fiction Writing. I began the year by finally finishing the first draft of my 215,000 word epic, Jack Logan: Astronaut. I then spent a lot of time redrafting an
Last year would have to be my worst book-reading year for a long time. I reckon I would have to go back to well before I arrived in Wang, about 15 years ago, to a year when I read less.
Many science fiction movies were released this year. Here’s what I thought of some of them. The Very Good. 1) Interstellar. A voyage of discovery. Written and directed by a master of science fiction, Christopher Nolan (Inception, Rise of the Planet of
Even though I no longer buy books or ebooks from Amazon, I am still interested in their prices and potential impact on the publishing industry. So, I have decided to continue my periodic survey of the prices of the top
I watched a lot of science fiction on television this year. Much of what I watched were short series, which I appreciate because there is less padding. Some of the science fiction was very good, some inconsistent, and some pretty
After reading about all the awards Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice had accumulated, I just had to read it. It won the 2014 Nebula, Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke awards for best science fiction novel. I was also intrigued by it
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