Monthly Archives: March 2007

Back in the autumn of 1999 I made a suggestion to some friends. The World Science Fiction Convention was coming to town. It’d be held in Melbourne in September, and perhaps we should do something? What I suggested to Jeremy Byrne, Russell Farr, Bill Congreve, and the late Peter McNamara was that Eidolon, Ticonderoga, Mirrordanse, … Continue reading »

Michael Walsh at Old Earth Books has just published Things Will Never Be The Same, the selected short fiction of Howard Waldrop. It’s an incredibly wonderful book, filled with many strange, different, oddball, but always terrific stories. You can order it from Old Earth Books, and if you do so before 1 Apri, the shipping’s … Continue reading »

I’ve not been posting much, so a quick update on life, the universe and what I’m reading at the moment. First, the submissions have started to come in for Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, which is very exciting. At the same time, Marianne is working in her office on the proofing/copyedits for the Australian … Continue reading »

There’s an article about my two pals Jer and Jason in PW. It’s very cool, and so are they. Check it out.

Greg Egan has sold a new science fiction novel, Incandescence, to Gollancz. The book will be published in May 2008. No US edition seems to have been announced yet. You can read related story “Riding the Crocodile” to get a taste for the book.