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Crashland – first glimpse

Crashland – first glimpse 

Stella Paskins at Egmont UK (publisher of Twinmaker in that fine land) been posting on tumblr. The subject of her latest? Crashland, the next book in the series (called Crash in Australia). As well as a fine shot of the stack of pages to be proofed, there’s a close shot of the opening page, revealing […]

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Your Six-Word Twinmaker Fix (now with bonus extra words)

Your Six-Word Twinmaker Fix (now with bonus extra words) 

The other day io9 ran a six-word story thread to which I was compelled to contribute, because why not? Harder than a haiku, particularly when at least one of the words has to identify your story as involving matter transmitters. As of course all the best stories do. So here’s what I wrote, tweaked a […]

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Mad March

Mad March 

This is the quickest possible post to apologise for being a bit slow on the posting front. It’s Mad March here in Adelaide, which means that everything that can possibly here must happen at the same time. Specifically for me Adelaide Writers’ Week (I’m on the advisory committee), WOMADelaide and the Unsound Festival. They’re keeping […]

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Fab Feb

Fab Feb 

I will never stop thinking that matter transmitters are interesting. As further evidence of this, my first academic publication, a chapter in a book called Travel & Imagination, is coming out in April. I received the cover and publication date this week. The title of my chapter is “MT Promises: Science Fictional Travel Technologies and […]

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