So far I’m batting 100% for 2015 it would seem. I’m sure this isn’t going to last for long (oh, optimistic one). Still and all, I’ve sold my humorous short story, Occupational Hazards, to Neo-Opsis magazine, my first sale to the periodical. Karl Johanson, editor of Neo-Opsis, tells me Occupational Hazards will be coming out in the next issue. Of course that means all of you are going to have to rush right out and…
All the Broken Things by Kathryn KuitenbrouwerMy rating: 5 of 5 stars I was very much minded of Rohinton Mistry’s novels when reading Kuitenbrower’s All the Broken Things, albeit we’ve changed from writing about the tragedies of India’s people to the tragedy of Canada’s. In this case Kuitenbrower tells a deftly-crafted tale of a Vietnamese mother, son and daughter who are refugees just after the infamous civil war that ravaged their country. Not only are…
The Dragon’s Eye by Joël ChampetierMy rating: 2 of 5 stars It is with novels like The Dragon’s Eye my antipathy toward hard SF becomes evident. Or does it? Certainly authors like Kim Stanley Robinson are capable of writing hard SF, introducing fascinating concepts and situations which are completely and utterly foreign to present-world understanding. Robinson unhinges the reader with the brilliance of his vision. Perhaps it is there the difference between Champetier’s novel, translated…