Discussing Australian authors, their writing and fandom.
Who is Charlotte Wood? Charlotte Wood is the author of four novels and a work of non-fiction. Her latest work is a book of essays on cooking, Love & Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food. Her last novel, Animal People, won the People’s Choice medal in the 2013 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, was…
Who is Cat Sparks? Cat Sparks is fiction editor of Cosmos Magazine. She is halfway through a PhD in young adult climate change fiction. Sixty-five of her short stories have been published since 2000. She is currently in a panicked flap making a bunch of agent-directed changes to her novel, Lotus…
Who is Bruce Lyman? Bruce lives in Sydney without a view of the Harbour or the Bridge but, despite these shortcomings and his rural roots, is a devotee of this city. He was a parade ground dodger in the military for more years than he cares to remember, spent time…
Who is Alan Baxter? Alan Baxter is a British-Australian author who writes dark fantasy, horror and sci-fi, rides a motorcycle and loves his dog. He also teaches Kung Fu. He is the author of the dark urban fantasy trilogy, Bound, Obsidian and Abduction (The Alex Caine Series) published by HarperVoyager…
No matter what your vocation in life, music can inspire you. It can lift and comfort. It can embrace and acknowledge. It can nullify your existential loneliness in a way unique to any other art form. It can unite us and connect us, make us think differently about situations and…
Now that the new year is shaping up, it’s time to set some goals for the year… What do you want to achieve before 2016? What are your priorities? For me, I’ve been planning a new novel – a fantasy this time – which I’d love to finish before 2016.…
Galactic Chat’s Mark Webb interviews Aussie speculative fiction guru Ion “Nuke” Newcombe about AntipodeanSF, ebooks, what makes good flash fiction, and all things speculative. Listen through to the end of the podcast, when I narrate my flash fiction piece Shy at around the 49-minute mark. Thanks Mark, Tansy Rayner Roberts…
