April 2014 archive

I’m Voting For Winston Peters.

Personal opinions really in play – Last week I replied to a survey asking how and if I’d vote this year. I replied that I would certainly be voting, I always do. I regard it as a civic duty. However for whom I’d vote is trickier. National? I don’t like that smarmy, cold-eyed, gladhander. Labour? …

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THE KRAKEN WAKES by John Wyndam.

Hardcover, published Michael Joseph 1980, (original publication 1953.) Frankly I have always liked this book more than The Day of the Triffids although I do really like that one as well. But with Kraken I like the main characters Mike and Phyllis better, and the story of their survival I find slightly more interesting as …

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Another Sale

My story, The Steam-Powered Camera has just been contracted for David Riley’s annual Steampunk Trails anthology. I’ve been selling to Dave for around 12 years, and it’s nice to make another sale to him and his editor (Julie Campbell) for these Steampunk anthologies.