My essay on Time Travel and Identity is available at Speculative Insight magazine. Here’s the opening section: Regrets, who doesn’t have them? Who hasn’t made mistakes? Relationships, jobs, passions, living locations. Sometimes we took too long to end them or change them. Sometimes we jumped too early. Sometimes we never jumped at all and are now […]
Read more +Find a recent piece here on time travel and choices: https://www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/critical-choices
Read more +A while ago, I wrote an obituary on Le Guin for Overland magazine, which is available here. Here’s the article: ‘The King was pregnant.’ So wrote Ursula K Le Guin in her 1969 classic The Left Hand of Darkness – one of the greatest of science fiction novels. The populace of Gethen were androgynous. During […]
Read more +There must be two major caveats to giving Greene’s novels a 5-star rating. First, the way the characters come to symbolise their countries can’t help but be a little strained. Second, the book is drenched in a kind of soft orientalism, which plays out mostly in the character of Phuong, so distand and unfathomable, so […]
Read more +Moore recuperates the problems of the earlier issues in this final, clever, Act. The problems in the earlier issues were narrative ones — and it’s pretty instructive, from a writing point of vier. The journalist Black’s desire to write a history of New England occult culture lacks stakes. That is, there’s nothing compelling — either […]
Read more +Goodreads Book Giveaway The Stars Askew by Rjurik Davidson Giveaway ends February 15, 2017. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway
Read more +Daniel Polansky lives in New York, though I think he’s originally from Maryland, which gives him the advantage of being both an insider and an outsider in the Big Apple. This liminal position is one of the things that tends to make original art — think of the Irish writers in London and Paris — […]
Read more +Locked out in Sydney, A poem I’m locked out, in Sydney. Sitting on the street. Waiting for someone with a key. It feels like a metaphor, Except I’m really actually locked out, In sydney. Like really, without a key. Keep your silly metaphors to yourself. When you’re locked out, You’re not calling for Yeats to […]
Read more +In my dream last night, I was given the job of searching for a missing man, who had disappeared. Slowly the people who were aiding me in the search began to change into strange stepford wives-ey folk, blank and creepy, and I ended up fleeing through a forest with them pursuing me. When I arrived […]
Read more +Newtown Review of Books has reviewed The Stars Askew: The Stars Askew continues Australian fantasy author Rjurik Davidson’s dark tale of revolution, treachery and personal sacrifice begun in his debut novel Unwrapped Sky. Again, this story is set in the richly imagined city of Caeli Amur where magical beasts, grinding totalitarianism, revolutionary fervour and warped thaumaturgists blend together to […]
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