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Brief Thoughts On This Year’s BSFA Novel Shortlist
I’m not British so I can’t vote for the BSFA, but here are my thoughts anyway.
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Brief Thoughts On This Year’s Aurealis Award Nominees
This morning saw the announcement of the Aurealis Awards’ shortlist. I’m not going to publish the...
Read MoreAnd the winner of the Clarke Award is….
… the magnificent Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel – most definitely one of my favourite books for the 14/15 award season period.* (Thanks to Jonathan Strahan for pointing this out to me on Facebook this...
Read MoreBook Review – Caution: Contains Small Parts by Kirstyn McDermott
About half an hour before midnight on 31 December I announced on Twitter that the last book I’d read for the year happened to be the best book of 2013. The work in question was the short story collection Caution: Contains Small...
Read More13 random and rambling thoughts about the Hugo Awards and one HUGE THANK YOU!
The Hugo Awards were announced earlier today. The winners can be found here and the all important stats can be found here. In no particular order here are my thoughts on the results: Apparently I’m not allowed to blame...
Read MoreTiptree Awards
Most of you who read this blog will know that the Tiptree Award for 2012 was announced a day or so back. I’m super excited to see that the award has gone to The Drowning Girl – joint winner with Kiini Ibura...
Read MoreI’m a Podcast Floozy
In my attempt to conquer the Podcast Universe this month I featured in four different podcasts. First off was episode 15 of the new and improved (or exactly the same as it was before) Shooting the Poo. In this, the first of a...
Read MoreWriter and the Critic – Episode 20
It feels like forever since we recorded this episode. It’s that famous one from Continuum 8 where I pretend I’m Jim C Hines and try and pose like the cover of Anne McCaffrey’s The Crystal Singer. I honestly...
Read MoreI’ll always remember Continuum 8
I’m not going to pretend otherwise, winning both the Chronos and Ditmar awards for the Writer and the Critic with my co-host Kirstyn and in my home State of Victoria was one of my proudest moments ever.* You see, before...
Read MoreFan Writery Links #2
I’m busy at the moment – you’ll see why shortly – so I haven’t had time to blog. (One of these day I’ll do those other Hugo posts that I’ve been threatening to write). In the meantime,...
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