Monthly Archives: July 2010
Legends in The West Australian
The weekend before last Ian Nichols and I met up to discuss Legends of Australian Fantasy, editing, science fiction, and the upcoming Hugo Awards. The article ran in The West Australian this morning and I’m grateful to Ian (if a little embarrassed, to be honest) for making me seem at least semi-literate.
Books and Monday
I love Planet Books, but I also am coming to pretty much adore bookdepository.co.uk, which is the cheapest book outlet I know. I was over at Planet on Sunday and bought a copy of Lou Ander’s Masked. I have a PDF of it somewhere, but I really can’t be bothered reading that and (a) I … Continue reading
Eldest child is screaming and shouting, youngest child is upset because we may have to decide to stop her reading the book she’s reading, we may need to change travel plans, there’s a crack in the kitchen wall (not new, not big or serious, but *maybe* a little bigger), and everything is stress and misery. … Continue reading
Episode 12: Live with Gary K. Wolfe
Well, Gary Wolfe and I got on Skype this morning with no real idea about what we might discuss, other than a passing desire not to retread old grown. After a bit of waffling, we got down to serious waffling and spent some time discussing: William Gibson’s Zero History and what makes a book that … Continue reading
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Updatery, weekendwise
Welcome to Tuesday. No notes from Monday, mostly because it was a day at work, and not much more. I woke at 2.30am and couldn’t get back to sleep, so the whole day was less than completely functional. I did, however, get the best piece of mail EVER when the wonderful folk at HarperUS (thank … Continue reading
