Convention

Anywhere But Earth has landed

October 25, 2011

AbE cover for blog Anywhere But Earth has landed I’m very proud to have a story in this fantastic anthology from editor extraordinaire Keith Stevenson. Here’s the blurb:

Twenty-nine all new science fiction stories of humanity’s adventures out there, anywhere but Earth. Featuring original works by Margo Lanagan, Sean McMullen, Richard Harland and Kim Westwood among a galaxy of new and established Australian and overseas speculative fiction authors.

‘Keith Stevenson has done it again. Sit down, buckle up, you’re heading off world now – trust me, it’s going to hurt, but you won’t regret it.’
Trent Jamieson, award-winning author of the Death Works and The Nightbound Land series.

Contents
Calie Voorhis ‘Murmer’, Cat Sparks ‘Beautiful’, Simon Petrie ‘Hatchway’, Lee Battersby ‘At the End There Was a Man’, Alan Baxter ‘Unexpected Launch’, Richard Harland ‘An Exhibition of the Plague’, Robert N Stephenson ‘Rains of la Strange’, Liz Argall ‘Maia Blue is Going Home’, Chris McMahon ‘Memories of Mars’, CJ Paget ‘Pink Ice in the Jovian Rings’, Penelope Love ‘SIBO’, Donna Maree Hanson ‘Beneath the Floating City’, Erin E Stocks ‘Lisse’, William RD Wood ‘Deuteronomy’, Robert Hood ‘Desert Madonna’, Steve de Beer ‘Psi World’, Damon Shaw ‘Continuity’, Wendy Waring ‘Alien Tears’, Patty Jansen ‘Poor Man’s Travel’, Jason Fischer ‘Eating Gnashdal’, Kim Westwood ‘By Any Other Name’, Brendan Duffy ‘Space Girl Blues’, TF Davenport ‘Oak with the Left Hand’, Sean McMullen ‘Spacebook’, Margo Lanagan ‘Yon Horned Moon’, Mark Rossiter ‘The Caretaker’, Jason Nahrung ‘Messiah on the Rock’, Angela Ambroz ‘Pyaar Kiya’, Steve Cameron ‘So Sad, the Lighthouse Keeper’

B format 728 pages

ISBN 9780987158703 – printed book

ISBN 9780987158710 – ebook

The book has landed here on Earth and is available now in print and multi-format ebook. The official launch will be happening at the New South Wales Writers Centre Speculative Fiction Festival on Saturday, November 5th. Several of the contributing authors will be there, including myself. As part of the launch, Richard Harland, Margo Lanagan and I will be reading excerpts from our stories. Of course, all the attending authors will also be happy to sign your copy at the launch. There’s so much else going on that day – if you’re anywhere near Sydney, don’t miss it!

In the meantime, all the purchase details for this awesome anthology can be found here. Go get some!

NSW Writers’ Centre Speculative Fiction Festival

By alan

October 19, 2011

On Saturday 5th November, authors, editors, publishers, critics, film-makers and readers from all over Australia are converging on the NSW Writers Centre for a day spent celebrating Speculative Fiction. I’ll be there, taking part in a panel and also reading from my story, Unexpected Launch, as part of the official launch of the Anywhere But Earth anthology from Coeur De Lion Publishing. Margo Lanagan and Richard Harland will also be reading as part of that launch.

There’s going to be loads going on, two official book launches, panels and even a chance to listen to publishers and pitch them your story idea one-on-one. That is some valuable opportunity, right there. All the details can be found here. Move fast, because places for that are limited.

In the meantime, Festival curator Kate Forsyth, asked a bunch of the attending guests just what “speculative fiction” is. The answers are excellent, and I’m reposting them here from Newsbite, the NSWWC Newsletter, which you can sign up for at the NSWWC site.

So what, exactly, is Speculative Fiction?
The dictionary defines it as a broad literary genre encompassing any fiction with supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements (which seems to me to cover just about all kinds of fiction).
So I thought I would ask some of the guests appearing at the festival. Since they write it, they should know what it is. Shouldn’t they?
We can only speculate.
Alan Baxter: ‘All fiction, by definition, is speculative, but “speculative fiction” as a genre encompasses all stories that refuse to be bound by what’s real, what’s known or what’s proven – they’re stories which expand beyond the mundane to very edges of our imagination and reflect us back to ourselves from every conceivable angle.’
DM Cornish: ‘Speculative fiction is the search to make the wondrous and the mythic, comprehensible and portable.’
Richard Harland: ‘Speculative Fiction is the imagination unleashed! And the imagination is mightier than the sword or the pen or anything!’
Pamela Freeman:‘Speculative fiction:
When the world doesn’t work the way scientists think it should –
When the world works the way poets and children think it should –
When the world works.’
Colin Harvey: ‘Speculative fiction is escapism for some, reality for the rest of us.’
Jack Heath: ‘Most fiction is written to make the real seem ludicrous. Speculative fiction is the art of making the ludicrous seem real.’
Margo Lanagan: ‘In a nutshell, “Speculative Fiction” is a handy term for referring to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror and their various leakages into each other. More personally, those words are an invitation to take my story to as strange a place as I need to go to say the things I can’t say more straightforwardly.’
Karen Miller: ‘It’s the genre that takes the brakes off our imagination.’
Belinda Murrell: ‘Speculative fiction is a genre which plays with the boundaries of the known and the possible.’
What do I think?
From the beginning of time, humans have been dreaming of impossible things – of worlds and times and creatures and circumstances beyond what is known and charted. They have looked at the vast mystery of the universe and asked, ‘What if …?’ Then they have told stories that give voice to those impossible dreams, thereby making them, perhaps, one day, possible.
So if you dream of impossible things – like being the next J.K Rowling (or George R.R. Martin, or Stephanie Meyer, or Sir Terry Pratchett, or Stephen King, or Margaret Atwood, or Frank Herbert, or Diana Gabaldon, or Neil Gaiman, or even the next George Lucas), come along to the NSW Writers Centre on Saturday, 5th November, and discover this most exciting and adventurous of literary genres.

Kate Forsyth is curating the NSW Writers’ Centre Speculative Fiction Festival on Saturday 5 November. Be there!

Emerging Writers’ Festival, Digital Writing Conference, Brisbane

By alan

October 17, 2011

I spent this weekend in Brisbane at the Emerging Writers’ Festival Digital Writing Conference and it was a top weekend of excellent information and quality company.

The event started on the Friday evening, with a meet and greet of attending writers, editors, artists and organisers at Greystones Bar. It was great to put 3D fleshforms to Twitter personas, some of whom I’ve known online for a long time, as well as making new friends right off the bat.

The Conference itself started the following day at the Queensland State Library. Lisa Dempster (@lisadempster) opened proceedings and we were then supposed to cut to a video presentation from Christy Dena (@christydena). However, library technofail meant there were problems with the wifi. For me, a certain degree of technofail at a digital writing conference seemed somehow fitting. So we had a presentation from Morgan Jaffit (@morganjaffit) on writing for videogames.

This presentation was excellent, especially as I’m involved with some game writing now. One of the simple yet very important things Morgan said in reference to game writing was that, whereas with prose writing we’re told to “Show, not tell”, with games it’s “Do, don’t show”. In other words, let players actively participate in the story rather than showing them all the story in elegant cutscenes. Gamers remember the stuff they do in a game more than the stuff they watch. This is a Very True Thing.

Then we kicked into the first panel.

Sophie Black (@sophblack), Andrew McMillen (@niteshok), Jason Nelson and Sarah Werkmeister (@fourThousand) discussed the nature of writing online, hosted by the wonderful Alex Adsett (@alexadsett). It was interesting and varied stuff. Andrew McMillen told a tale of caution when it comes to the organic nature of online journalism and how important it is to fact-check and maintain your integrity and ethics as a writer. Jason Nelson blew us away with a variety of interactive online poetry and games that has to be seen to be believed. He’s also on the board offering grants to digital writers, and it’s worth your time investigating that as it seems very few people are applying and there’s money to be had. Real spending cash. A rare treat for any kind of writer. Sophie Black, editor of Crikey, talked about how online journalism is different to the print journalism of old, and how they source material from all over the world. Sarah Werkmeister drew interesting comparisons as well. And this is, of course, only a fraction of the stuff covered.

Following that panel was another moment of technofail (which, I should point out, was again the fault of the venue, not the conference or organisers!) and so we had an early break. Then we came back to the next panel, which included myself, Simon Groth (@simongroth), Charlotte Harper (@ebookish), and Festival director, Lisa Dempster. It was hosted by the inimitable Karen Pickering (@jevoislafemme). We were talking about using the online environment to promote your work, to get work and to work for you. I used my own website as an example of how to manage a central online hub, where people can find you and your work and contact you if they want to. Of course, it was also a moment of shameless self-promotion, with my site projected behemoth-like behind me. Here’s a photo from Amanda Greenslade (@greensladecreat):

From L to R – Karen Pickering, Lisa Dempster, Simon Groth, Charlotte Haper, and me at the lectern

The other panelists presented very interesting stuff, important to all writers – concepts like “Know your niche”, “be an expert”, “define your audience”, “don’t be a dick”, “don’t spam people”, “engage with people online, don’t preach to them” and so on. The panel and subsequent Q&A wandered all over the place and covered a lot of ground, which I won’t try to replicate here.

Suffice to say that these two 75 minute panels were jam-packed with juicy tidbits of writerly wisdom and, judging by the feedback when I was chatting with people afterwards, most attendees got a lot out of it. I certainly learned some new stuff and had some old stuff reaffirmed. The truth is, no matter how emerging or emerged you may be as a writer, these things are invaluable.

After that panel we recovered somewhat from earlier technofail and had Christy Dena’s video speech – “7 things I wish I had known at the beginning of my digital writing career”. I’ve embedded that video here as it’s fucking brilliant. Absolutely solid advice, well worth your 15 mintes:

See, how good was that?

Then we mingled and drank, often the best part of any writers’ event as people are the engine of this industry and socialising with them is invariably fascinating and entertaining.

The following day there was a talk at Avid Reader bookshop (@avidreader4101), where Karen Pickering and Chris Currie (@furioushorses) talked to writers about writing about writing. Yes, all very meta. Here they are, in the sunny courtyard out the back of the bookshop/cafe. There were periodic pigeon attacks to keep them on their toes:

It was a fascinating chat, but sadly I had to leave early to catch my flight. However, due to the frenzied tweeting throughout the entire conference, I was still able to keep a bit of an ear to what was happening. And I got to follow the excitement of the spelling bee that evening, which rounded out the Festival.

A truly spectacular event that I was proud to be a part of. Given that most of my conference activity is quite genre-focused, I always enjoy these wide open writers’ events, with everyone from journalists to fiction writers and beyond all mixing together, all styles, all media, all slightly crazy. It’s inspiring and motivating in so many ways, I can’t recommend it highly enough. If you want to be a writer or you already are one, get out there and mix with these overlapping tribes. We’ve all got our love of writing and reading in common, after all.

You’ve hopefully noticed that throughout this post I’ve been linking Twitter handles. Go and follow them all – they’re very interesting people.

If I got one over-riding thing from this conference it was that right now is an exciting and invigorating time to be a writer. I couldn’t agree more with that perception. Vive le Worditude!

Conflux 7 – a quick report

By alan

October 4, 2011

I’m supposed to be on holiday for the rest of this week, but I just wanted to post a quick report on Conflux 7, which happened this past long weekend. Conflux is the Canberra-based annual Fantasy and Science Fiction convention, and it holds a special place in my heart. I love the vibe of this particular con, always friendly and open. It lived up to that rep once again.

There were many highlights for me. The Angry Robot launch was excellent and well attended. Kaaron Warren and Joanne Anderton were there to launch their books, Mistification and Debris. Trent Jamieson was there in spirit, though not in person, as his new book, Roil, was also included in the launch. Kaaron’s daughter made angry robot cupcakes for the event, which looked great and tasted better:

angry robot cupcake Conflux 7 a quick report

The official opening ceremony followed that, MCd by the incomparable Jack Dann. There’s no one quite like Jack Dann, for which we should probably all be thankful, but he’s a great guy and loads of fun. He’s one of the good guys and opened the con with great enthusiasm.

Following the opening ceremony was the official launch of the new CSFG Publishing anthology, Winds Of Change. That book includes my story, Dream Shadow. There were a staggering fifteen contributing authors and artists at the convention, so a mass signing table was set up and we all sat down to sign for people buying the book. It sold really well – my signing hand was fully a-cramped by the end. Here’s a shot of the mass signing – you can spot me by my terrible posture:

winds launch Conflux 7 a quick report

Quite a night, involving lots of beer, and that was only the first evening.

Other personal highlights for me included the Evil Overlord panel, on the subject of the Best Getaway Vehicle for an Evil Overlord. I was moderating that panel, with Laura E Goodin, Kathleen Jennings and Phil Berrie. We started by discussing some of our ideas, then I opened the floor to the audience. Lots of suggestions were made and discussed, a long list was whittled to a short list and a final vote decided that the ideal getaway vehicle was a Monkey-style flying cloud. I’m pleased to say that was my original suggestion. Not only that, the incredibly talented Kathleen Jennings illustrated the winner. Here’s me with The Duck Lord:

duck lord Conflux 7 a quick report

I’m honoured to have that very drawing hanging on the wall of my study right now.

I enjoyed the Paths To Publishing panel I was on, along with Cat Sparks, Nicole Murphy and Natalie Costa-Bir. That was one of those panels where I got to share my own experience and learn a lot at the same time – always the best kind in my mind.

Right after that panel, due to a bit of a SNAFU, the Guests Of Honour gathered for their Q&A panel, but there was no MC present. I stepped up and got to wrangle the audience for questions for four very cool people – awesome author Kim Westwood, editor extraordinaire Natalie Costa-Bir, and artists Lewis Morley and Marilyn Pride. Hearing them talk about their processes and projects, and where they’re headed next was very interesting. Here’s a pic of that panel:

goh qa Conflux 7 a quick report

L to R: Lewis Morley, Marilyn Pride, Natalie Costa-Bir, Kim Westwood and me (last minute ring-in MC)

From that panel I went directly to one about the influence of heavy metal music on SF, and SF’s influence on it. The panel consisted of myself, Tracey O’Hara and Joanne Anderton. We also talked about the influence of extreme music on us and our writing. It was a great panel, very interesting and vibrant, and I think everyone there, including the three of us, left with a list of new bands to check out. Here’s that panel:

metal in sf Conflux 7 a quick report

L to R: Tracey O’Hara, me, Joanne Anderton

I attended several other items as an audience member too. Probably the highlights for me were Kim Westwood’s Guest Of Honour speech, the panel on short story writing (with Kim Westwood, Jack Dann, Kaaron Warren, Helen Stubbs and Cat Sparks), the panel on why we love the dark and macabre in our art (with Andrew J McKiernan, Kaaron Warren and Kyla Ward), and a reading by Kaaron Warren of a new short story, which resulted in a very interesting discussion afterwards, talking about the themes of the story. I’d love to see more of that at cons, and I’d love the opportunity to read one of my short stories to a group and have a discussion about it afterwards. I also really enjoyed the Historical Banquet on Saturday night, a 1929 Zeppelin themed dinner. Well done Gillian Polack for that one. Of course, I did loads more stuff, but it’s all swirling in the misty pseudo-memory that is my post-con brain right now.

Just reading over that, I look like a right Kaaron Warren fanboi. And you know what? I am. Not only that, Kaaron was kind enough to put me up over the weekend and make me coffee and bacon sandwiches. She’s absolutely lovely in every way and an incredible talent. I’m honoured to call her my friend. In fact, here’s a pic of three of my favourite SF ladies and me:

L to R: Jodi Cleghorn, Kaaron Warren, me, Joanne Anderton

It was also great to hang out with Cat Sparks and Rob Hood for the weekend, who were also staying at Kaaron’s. And that’s a fine example of the kind of SF community we have in Australia, and around the world. The F&SF community takes care of each other and every con is just an excuse to catch up with good friends and hopefully make some new ones.

The only downside to the con was that on Sunday night some junkie fuckknuckle smashed out the window of my car, bled all over it and stole a bunch of my stuff. He also smashed windows and stole stuff from at least seven other cars in the street. So that sucks the big one, but it’s not enough to spoil a good con.

Conflux was great, as it always is, and I can’t wait for the next one.

I’ve only posted a handful of pics, as those are all I’ve managed to pilfer thus far. I’ll post links to other photos from the con when I find some. If you have any, please drop a link in the comments. Also, if you were there, share your favourite moments in the comments too.

Oh, and one last thing. There was a person there who asked me a few times to have a chat about short story markets. I kept telling her that I would find five minutes for a chat about it, yet I never did! I’m sorry – if you’re reading, drop me an email.

Conflux schedule – come and say hi

By alan

September 28, 2011

Conflux 7 will be held in Canberra, the nation’s capital, this long weekend, October 1st to 3rd. I’ll be there, getting involved with a few things and catching up with friends. Hopefully I’ll make some new friends too. Here’s a schedule of what I’ll be doing.

Friday, the day before the convention proper, is open for a series of workshops and launches. I’ll be running a workshop on blogging from 10am till noon, then I’ll be reading from my story at the Winds Of Change launch at 7pm.

Friday, 30th September

10AM – Noon

All About Blogging
A Workshop with Alan Baxter – Yamba Room

Wikipedia describes “blogs” as a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reversechronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Perhaps you would like to learn more about blogs generally, start blogging yourself, or learn how to make your own blog more interesting?

This workshop is free for Conflux members (it is not open to the general public). Participant numbers are limited for this program item, so register soon if you would like to attend.

7pm – 8pm

Launch – Winds Of Change anthology from CSFG Publishing.

This anthology includes my story, Dream Shadow, and I’ll be reading an excerpt at the launch, along with several other contributing authors. There will also be nibbles.

Saturday, 1st October

9am – 10am

Evil Overlord Panel

I’ll be moderating this one, with panel members Phil Berrie, Laura E Goodin and Kethleen Jennings. We’ll be discussing the ideal Evil Overlord getaway vehicle and there’ll be a special prize for the audience member who comes up with the best suugestion.

Sunday, 2nd October

4.30pm – 5.30pm

Publishing – What path should you take?

This is a panel with Natalie Costa Bir, Nicole Murphy and Cat Sparks. We’ll be talking about all the different paths to publishing and the pros and cons of each.

6.30pm – 7.30pm

Heavy Metal panel

This should be a fun one. Myself, Jo Anderton and Tracey O’Hara will be talking about heavy metal music, its influence on spec fic and spec fic’s influence on it. We’ll also talk about how heavy metal has informed or inspired our own writing. Audience participation is welcomed!

Monday, 3rd October

10am – 11am

Kaffeeklatsch – Yamba Room

This is simply me in one place with a coffee, and anyone is welcome to come and join me. We can chat about anything you like, you can get books signed and so on. Come and have a chat.

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And that’s it for my official engagements – a pretty quiet con for me this time. I’ll be around the con all weekend and will probably get involved with other things here and there. Otherwise I’ll be in panels listening in or, more likely, propping up the hotel bar.

Conflux is always a great vibe with excellent people, so come and get involved. You can get day tickets or all weekend membership and it’s well worth it. See you there!

Emerging Writers’ Festival – Digital Writers: taking your words online

By alan

August 31, 2011

I’ve been invited to be a guest speaker at an Emerging Writers’ Festival event in Brisbane called Digital Writers: taking your words online. It’s a very exciting idea, but it needs some funding and the whole project is currently being crowdsourced. You can support the event simply by buying a ticket to attend. Here’s the event explained:

On 15 October, the Emerging Writers’ Festival want to run a mini-conference called Digital Writers: taking your words online. The event will equip writers with ideas and inspiration about sharing their work and words with audiences online. Panel discussions full of practical advice will explore how to write for online audiences, and where the opportunities are in the digital space. Our talented line-up of writers will share how they use new technologies to create, to market and to make money by their writing.
From blogging and tweeting to online journalism, and everything in between, Digital Writers is an event for writers wanting to use the online space to take their writing to the next level.

The line up of speakers are experts in online writing, publishing and marketing, including:

Sophie Black, Editor, Crikey.com.au
Andrew McMillen, Freelance Journalist
Jason Nelson, digital and hypermedia poet
Simon Groth, novelist & If:Book Director
Alan Baxter, spec. fiction author
Karen Pickering, commentator & editor
Christy Dena, Director, Universe Creation 101
Lisa Dempster, blogger & festival director
Daniel Donahoo, writer, blogger & geek

& more to be announced

As you can see, it’s a cool idea and very useful for writers both established and emerging. I’m honoured to have been asked to be a part of it and really hope it can all go ahead. So, how do you help to make it happen? Simple. Just by paying a few dollars in support or pledging now with $45 which will buy you a ticket to attend. All the details are here: http://www.pozible.com.au/index.php/archive/index/2214/description/0/0 You’ll also find a video there, and that video includes a moment of me in my garden. That alone must be worth the visit, right?

Support writing and writing events in Australia by getting involved. Just a few dollars and you’re earning the good karma. For every dollar pledged, a good thing will happen to you.*

*This is not a guarantee, but it is my fervent hope.

2011 Hugo Award winners

By alan

August 21, 2011

The Oscars of the SF world, the Hugos, are awarded at Worldcon every year. They’ve just been announced for 2011 at Renovation in Reno, Nevada. The winners of the 2011 Hugo Awards are:

BEST NOVEL: Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra)

BEST NOVELLA: The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (Subterranean)

BEST NOVELETTE: “The Emperor of Mars” by Allen M. Steele (Asimov’s, June 2010; also in audio)

BEST SHORT STORY: “For Want of a Nail” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s, September 2010)

BEST RELATED WORK: Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It, edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O’Shea (Mad Norwegian)

BEST GRAPHIC STORY: Girl Genius, Volume 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse, written by Phil and Kaja Foglio; art by Phil Foglio; colors by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM: Inception, written and directed by Christopher Nolan (Warner)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM: Doctor Who: “The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang”, written by Steven Moffat; directed by Toby Haynes (BBC Wales)

BEST EDITOR, SHORT FORM: Sheila Williams

BEST EDITOR, LONG FORM: Lou Anders

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST: Shaun Tan (Go, Aussie!)

BEST SEMIPROZINE: Clarkesworld, edited by Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan, Sean Wallace; podcast directed by Kate Baker

BEST FANZINE: The Drink Tank, edited by Christopher J Garcia and James Bacon

BEST FAN WRITER: Claire Brialey

BEST FAN ARTIST: Brad W. Foster

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER [Not a Hugo]: Lev Grossman

I thought there were a few givens in this year’s nominations, and I was wrong on almost every count. Inception was always going to win. Huge congratulations to the winners and to all the other nominees.

Winds Of Change launch at Conflux

By alan

August 19, 2011

My short story, Dream Shadow, is going to be published in the new anthology from CSFG Publishing, Winds Of Change. It looks like it’s shaping up to be a great anthology and it now has an official launch.

Here are the details:

Friday, September 30th, 2011 at 7pm

Conflux Science Fiction Convention
Launceston Room
Quality Hotel, Woden

That’s in Canberra, of course. So if any of you are likely to be around the area, do drop in. I’ll be there, along with a number of the contributing authors, and we may even do a bit of reading.

Of course, that’s just the start of the whole Conflux convention, so make a journey to the nation’s capital and stick around for the whole Con. It’s one of my favourites and I’ll be there all weekend.

winds of change invite Winds Of Change launch at Conflux

A bit of Australia and New Zealand at Worldcon

By alan

August 17, 2011

I mentioned here before about the wonderful generosity of Bob Kuhn, reading a selection of work from Australian and New Zealand authors at Worldcon in Reno. Well, it’s this weekend.

There are now a few more people on the bill and it looks like being two really cool reading sessions. I’m so pleased to be included in this. Here’s the schedule:

SATURDAY 10 am: Angela Slatter, Kylie Chan, Lisa Hannett, Fiona McIntosh and Mary Victoria.

SUNDAY 2 pm: Alan Baxter, Kim Falconer, Helen Lowe, Nicole Murphy and Gillian Polack.

Bob’s a great voice artist, you can learn more about him here.

So if you’re going to Reno for Worldcon this weekend, I’m very jealous. But while you’re there, catch some great Aussie and Kiwi spec fic, read by a great Australian voice artist.

The August Australian Speculative Fiction Blog Carnival

By alan

August 15, 2011

Nicole Murphy has collected a fantastic array of links to keep you busy all week. The August Australian Spec Fic blog carnival is one of the biggest I’ve ever seen. So big it’s in two parts.

Part the first is here.

Part the second is here.

Enjoy and share!