paperback , published Baen SF, 2007. A collection with a very wide timespan. Most of the stories appeared in the 1950s-1960s in top pulp magazines, but one is dated as the end of 1990. The stories are entirely as advertised, unfortunate aliens having real trouble with humans, and they’re very funny. My favourites were Compensation, …
June 2013 archive
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED NARRELLE M. HARRIS?
Narrelle M. Harris is a Melbourne-based writer of considerable versatility in many creative areas. Narrelle’s earliest writing was through science fiction fandom, including work based in Star Trek, Blake’s Seven and V universes. Her genzine, Inconsequential Parallax (co-written with husband, Tim Richards,) was nominated for a Ditmar Award in 1992. She wrote the award winning …
What’s Fair and Right. A brief cynical look at a few expectations.
Good authors whose work you love have no right to stop writing and/or die… until you die. People who have rented you a house for many happy years – have no right to sell the darn place so you have to move at great inconvenience and expense. New Zealand publishers have no right to reject …
Collection finished
I finally finished editing my collection of SF/F Cat stories (Katalagein) with UK Editor Stuart. It was a pleasant exercise, he’s not only a good editor, I found him very easy to work with and it was he who suggested the title. Katalagein – a South African term which is connected to compassionate justice – ‘sacrifice, …
Wooden It.
Yes, I can say that winter is now here and that has been heralded by firewood arriving for the coming cold wet months..and by much physical effort, some of it mine. Several cords were dumped on my lawn outside the woodshed and I was left to heave it from lawn into the shed. Last weekend …
Still Practising by David Grant
published paperback Pocket Books 2001. I always enjoy a good vet-written book and have half a shelf of them ranging from all of the James Herriot volumes to a couple by Oz’s Dr Harry, and half a dozen by Hugh Lasgarn as well as others. And now this one, which I picked up recently, will …
My 30th Book is now out.
I’m delighted to announce that my 30th book, a Young Adult standalone novel entitled Flying Free is now out from Sky Warrior Books. It’s set in New Zealand and features Icarus, a Haast’s eagle. The cover was done by my talented friend Sharman Horwood (who also did the cover for our collaborated alternate history, Queen …
Cat-Parked
22 June 2013
It’s gone very wet this last week or so and the Bamboo Clump birds are turning up more often to share the hen’s wheat. Not that I or the hens mind that. Back when I built the cat-park for Rasti, the original cat here, I also planted a clump of bamboo in the corner of …
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