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AntipodeanSF 300 Issues & 25 Years [and a Project X update]

How amazing is this cover! 42 stories from 38 featured authors celebrating AntipodeanSF’s 25 years of publication and their 300th Issue. I’m thrilled to be in this, having around 42 publications of one sort or another in AntipodeanSF since 2007. Take a look at the list of author’s names, too. I am in some very […]

Writing

Update on Project X and another small announcement

An update on Project X, maybe it should be Project Y so as not to get confused with anything Twitter-like. But, this month I’ve been very fortunate to visit the Kennedy Space Center, which was awesome. It was also fantastic because Project X/Y has a space theme, and I used some of the data from […]

Writing

Project X and a small announcement

One of my writing goals while being on summer holidays this 2024 was to complete, polish, and get the science fiction story (Project X) to a point so I could publish it. Project X began its life as a short story that had sat in a number of slush piles, and while receiving excellent feedback, […]

Writing

Off Grid Bread to Write To

Hi Everyone, hoping you are enjoying the holiday season. Out here in Southern Australia, it’s been a mild-heat with late rain so far. This has helped fill our rainwater tanks so we are better able to cope with summer. As a way of stopping to think about my latest story and let in all those […]

Writing

A 2023 Writing update

This year I have mostly been working on a science fiction novelette, turning a short piece I wrote and can’t let go of into a larger and more complex piece. I wrote about 20,000 words around three connected stories to do with climate change, and am penning the third and final piece hoping to go […]

Travel

Las Palmas Cafe Revolutionizes Los Angeles Brunch Scene

Did you come here for something in particular or just general Riker-bashing? And blowing into maximum warp speed, you appeared for an instant to be in two places at once. We have a saboteur aboard. We know you’re dealing in stolen ore. The game’s not big enough unless it scares you a little. Wait a […]