Recommendations: Three Video essays
Wouldn’t have a fucking clue how to do one myself – I may be a science fiction writer, but I’m also a technophobe with a generalised incompetence when it comes to matters of new media.
But, look, I do watch …
Tag: Tim Napper
Writing Mid-Term Review 2017: Recognition and Rejection
Let’s start with the good news: an Aurealis Award and an ‘Best of the Year’ Anthology inclusion.
The Aurealis nomination for Best Horror short story was unexpected, because I’d never written horror before, and well, I’d never thought I’d …
Late Bloomer (the old fart as new writer)
I respond with a mixture of envy and fear every time a writer tells me they were born to write. Every time I read about this famous writer getting their first type-writer at 10, or that famous writer publishing their …
Ditmar Award Nominations – Double-Decker Chuffed
The shortlist for the Ditmar Awards has been released and I’m on it. Twice. Which means I’m double-decker chuffed, as my five year old son would say.
The Ditmars are voted on by the Australian spec fic community (where the …
The Post-Noir Literature of Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro writes in the aftermath of the noir event. The tragedy has passed, the noir moment of betrayal now an unreliable memory.
Ishiguro is my favourite living author. I re-read one of his novels recently: An Artist of the …
Best SF Directors of all Time (Part 2)
Numbers fourteen down to seven on the list are here, if you missed it. If not, may I present the final countdown:
(click on PDF icon, above right, if you prefer to read black script on white)…
An Aurealis Nomination (plus recommendations for the Ditmars)
I was fucking chuffed to have received my first (and shit, maybe last) Aurealis Award nomination a few days ago. For the uninitiated, the Aurealis Awards are the juried prize for best genre fiction in Australia. 
The short story – …
Best SF Directors of all Time (part 1)
Let me pose this scenario: you’re a geek (shut up, you are). You’re marooned on Mars (shut up, just go with this). You’ve got enough food and water to last until the resupply mission arrives in eighteen months. You may …
I’m in Clarke’s ‘best science fiction of the year’ (fuck yeah)
Neil Clarke recently announced the table of contents for his ‘Best Science Fiction of the Year’. It’s an impressive line up. What the fuck I’m doing in it, I’m not sure, but hey, I’ll take it. Short fiction-wise this is …
Rogue One – the Scarif Problem
This isn’t a review of the entire film. There are plenty of those around, written by better critics than I. All I’ll say is this: I enjoyed Rogue One. It was a flawed, but welcome addition to the franchise. …