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Hashtag Hollowgirl

Hashtag Hollowgirl 

The final Twinmaker remix is complete! Below is the raw text that was the source of Hashtag Hollowgirl, the final Twinmaker novel broken down into bite-size bits. I’ve enjoyed this disintegration and reintegration process–the literary equivalent of a d-mat machine. Gee, I hope nothing went wrong in translation . . . What price the mirror, […]

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New Story: “The New Venusians”

New Story: “The New Venusians” 

When Jonathan Strahan asks you to write a story, you write him a story. So that’s what I did. The theme of his new anthology (Drowned Worlds) was pretty broad, and it mapped right onto something I’d been pondering for a while. (All my Twinmaker stories this year are ones I’ve given a lot of […]

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New Story: “Lust, Entrapment & the Matter Transmitter”

New Story: “Lust, Entrapment & the Matter Transmitter” 

In Your Face is the controversial new anthology from Fablecroft, featuring stories by Cat Sparks, Angela Slatter, Alan Baxter, and many more. It also contains a short but disturbing story by me set in the Twinmaker universe, called “Lust, Entrapment & the Matter Transmitter: A Case Study”. I’ve written about it here before. My desire […]

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Teleportation & Writers of the Future 32

Teleportation & Writers of the Future 32 

I won a prize in the WOTF contest in 1992 and attended the workshop and awards ceremony in 1993. My story was published in Volume 9 of the annual anthology and was at that stage my highest-earning piece of fiction, by a long way. In 2003, I was invited to write an essay about life […]

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