Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Book Review: Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar

Lavie Tidhar creates wonderfully vivid worlds in his books. Worlds where the strange and bizarre intertwine with the mundane, where history is slightly different and where Jewish culture and language permeate the tale. In Unholy Land, the Jews have a homeland in East Africa known as Palestina and the horrors of the holocaust did not come to pass.





Read the rest of my review at SF Crowsnest.



Monday, October 22, 2018

Book Review: Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Rex is a bio-engineered dog designed for war, given limited autonomy to command his small troop of other creatures and sent out into the anarchy of the civil war raging through Mexico. His world is quite straightforward: kill enemies, don’t kill friends and obey orders.





Read the rest of my review at SF Crowsnest.



Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Putting the Science in Fiction

Putting the Science in Fiction is out today, including my chapter on Waste Management in Science Fiction.







Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Parsec Award Finalist

My story 'The Long Afternoon of Sir Rupert Moncrief' is shortlisted in the Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast (Short Form) category of the Parsec Awards!