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Rjurik Davidson is a writer with a unique voice. At once romantically yearning and darkly insecure, his work straddles the deep contradictions of the human spirit transporting the reader into a symbolic dreamspace where the hopes and fears of his protagonists play out. A welcome addition to UK firm PS Publishing’s ‘Showcase Series’ is Rjurik’s debut collection, [...] The Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction podcast is a monthly showcase of the best Australian Speculative Fiction read by the authors who created it. TISF 24 is up now, free on the TISF website (www.tisf.com.au) as well as on iTunes. The latest podcast features Lee Battersby reading his awards winning Father Muerte story ‘Father Muerte and The Flesh’ [...] Trent Jamieson is well known in speculative fiction circles as a significant talent, writing beautifully crafted tales that often have a baroque sensibility and resonate on an emotional level. I thought I knew the type of first novel Trent would write, but Death Most Definite delivered quite a surprise. The tone of the piece is incredibly light, [...] The Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction podcast is a monthly showcase of the best Australian Speculative Fiction read by the authors who created it. TISF 23 is up now, free on the TISF website (www.tisf.com.au) as well as on iTunes. The latest podcast features Nathan Burrage reading his near future SF story ‘Black and Bitter, Thanks’ and also [...] To say that I like science fiction would be a gross understatement. I’ve read so much of it over the decades, I think it’s actually inscribed on my genome. And when I come across the real deal it’s like a tailored virus that has been specifically designed to infect me. Song of Scarabaeus is the real [...] The Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction podcast is a monthly showcase of the best Australian Speculative Fiction read by the authors who created it. TISF 22 is up now, free on the TISF website (www.tisf.com.au) as well as on iTunes. The latest podcast features Ditmar Award winning author Rjurik Davidson reading his dark fantasy ‘The Fear of [...] The Life Lottery is the final chapter in Ian Irvine’s Eco Thriller Human Rites Trilogy and, I’d have to say, the most disappointing. The central engaging idea that drove books 1 and 2 was the conspiracy by a group of extreme greenies who’d decided that the only way to save planet Earth was to drive humanity [...] The Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction podcast is a monthly showcase of the best Australian Science Fiction read by the authors who created it. TISF 21 is up now, free on the TISF website as well as on iTunes. The latest podcast features award-winning Tasmanian author Tansy Rayner Roberts reading her story ‘Fleshy’ first published [...] The number of science fiction novels penned by Australians and published each year is vanishingly small, particularly when compared to the bookshelf-metres of fantasy and paranormal romance appearing in the same period. But it’s not all bad news for SF. The genre is infinitely flexible and most recently it’s been cropping up in mainstream publishing lists [...] The Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction podcast is a monthly showcase of the best Australian Science Fiction read by the authors who created it. TISF 20 is up now, free on the TISF website (www.tisf.com.au) as well as on iTunes. The latest podcast features Aurealis Award winning author Peter M Ball reading his dark fantasy ‘Black Dog’ and [...] |
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