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sci-fi bias
This has been eating at me since I read it on Saturday. Check this opening line to a review of Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s Pashazade: “PASHAZADE was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, which means...
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GenConOz
One for the calendar if you’re into gaming, reading or cosplay: GenConOz is booked in for September 18-20, 2009. The first foray of the US franchise to our shores last year was much fun. I was...
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Burn Bright by Marianne de Pierres – is there an award for book trailers?
And now for the good news (goddamn it, we lost another Digger in Afghanistan today, as if a frigging cyclone wasn’t enough sadness for one day/week/lifetime): How yummy is this? I mean, I’m a sucker...
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AWWNYRC#5: Burn Bright, indeed!
This is the fifth book I’m reading as part of my list of 10 for the Australian Women Writers 2012 National Year of Reading Challenge. Burn Bright by Marianne de Pierres Random House, 2011, ISBN: 978 1...
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Snapshot 2012: Scott Robinson
QUEENSLAND writer Scott Robinson grew up reading and writing science fiction and fantasy — he was writing ‘novels’ when he was 10 years old. “It was never short stories, strangely enough,” he says,...
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Queensland Literary Awards finalists announced, plus some writerly advice
The Queensland Literary Awards short-lists have been announced. How wonderful to see how the community rallied to support these awards when the Queensland Government couldn’t be arsed. As the LNP rips...
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Wishlist Aussie books: Peacemaker, Lascar’s Dagger, Path of Night
I read the short story *years* ago, and then there was a comic, and now there’s the novel: Peacemaker is on its way in May next year through Angry Robot books. It’s about a ranger protecting our...
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Peacemaker: the west comes to town
She started life in a short story, received a comic book treatment, and now Virgin Jackson rides tall in her own novel. The heroine of Marianne de Pierres’s Peacemaker (Angry Robot) is, not...
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