52 Projects by Jeffrey Yamaguchi

Looking through the list of books available for review on Laura Hird’s website, I notice one called 52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity. Sounds interesting and different, but is it the right kind of book for me? I normally stick to reviewing fiction, and have never really thought of myself as much of a creative person, so I’m wary... but then again, why not? Nothing ventured, nothing gained...

Continue reading at Laura Hird's New Review.

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52 Projects
Perigee

Triquorum One, ed. Christopher Teague

This book grew organically, beginning life as a single novella, before gaining one and then two companions as Chris Teague received submissions that, he felt, worked well alongside each other. So, in Triquorum One, we have three tales which are all distinctive, yet are linked by the games they play with our notions of reality...

Continue reading at Laura Hird's New Review.

Further links:
Allen Ashley
John Grant
Lavie Tidhar
Christopher Teague
Pendragon Press

Rabid Transit: Long Voyages, Great Lies

Rabid Transit is a series of short anthologies published by a group of writers who call themselves the ‘Ratbastards’. It began as an outlet for their own work, then began to feature other writers; and has now reached this, its fifth instalment. The six stories in Long Voyages, Great Lies are loosely connected by themes of travel and escape. Let’s take a closer look at them...

Continue reading at Laura Hird's New Review.

Further links:
David J. Schwartz
F. Brett Cox
Heather Shaw
Meghan McCarron
Geoffrey H. Goodwin
Christopher Barzak
Alan DeNiro
Kristin Livdahl
Velocity Press

DH Interviews... Sean Wright

My first interview is now online...

On mapping Jaarfindor:
"The stories that come from Jaarfindor can't be mapped out as a whole, perfect picture. Why? Because I'm in the process of discovering what lurks in the cities and countryside, in the deserts and oceans, meeting new characters in exciting and challenging situations. I'm an artist, and as such I'm obsessed to explore the weird space of my imagination, writing down what I find there, making numerous pen and ink sketches as aide-memoirs. I constantly surprise and worry myself. Every time I venture there I find myself asking a simple yet for me a profound question: are you certain you witnessed that? Much of what I write isn't easy to quantify or label."

Read more at SF Site.

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Sean Wright

Jaarfindor Remade by Sean Wright

Reality's walls have been breached, and the worlds of Earth and Jaarfindor have become fused. Life in the capital of New Jaarfindor, Queen's Lynn (formerly present-day King's Lynn in Norfolk), presents several challenges: humans rub shoulders with insectiants, and you never know if the person next to you is an android; the mysterious shamutants, living beneath the city, may (it is said) erase your memories if you're not careful; the air is so polluted that decontamination is compulsory whenever you enter a building; and nobody knows what's "Out There" beyond the fog...

Read more at SF Site.

Further links:
Sean Wright
Crowswing