Review: Autokrator, by Emily A. Weedon

Autokrator Emily A. Weedon ISBN 9781770866850 440 pages Release: April 13, 2024 Publisher: Cormorant Books Autokrator, the debut novel by Emily A Weedon, brings with it some perceived credibility: Weedon is a Canadian Screen Award winner for best writing in a webseries. She’s also won or been nominated for 10 other screen writing awards. And she’s represented by Sam Hiyate of The Rights Factory. The novel is published by Cormorant Books, a Toronto-based publisher with a reputation for producing accessible,…

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Jun 2024

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Review: Him, by Geoff Ryman

Him Geoff Ryman ISBN 9781915202673 376 pages Release: December 5, 2023 Publisher: Angry Robot I must admit I became enamoured of Geoff Ryman’s work after reading The King’s Last Song, a superb tale which relates the story of an archaeologist working on the stupendous site of Angkor Wat where he finds a book of golden leaves which is a memoir written by Jayavarman Seven, one of the first Buddhist kings in Cambodia. The second story reveals the contents of the memoir…

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Jun 2024

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Review: A Dream Wants Waking, by Lydia Kwa

A Dream Wants Waking by Lydia Kwa My rating: 2 of 5 stars A Dream Wants Waking is a speculative fiction novel set in the ancient city of Luoyang, China, ostensibly in the year 2219 CE. This is a complicated story, with a considerable cast of characters, and a mythology woven around genetic AI beings and modifications. There’s a lot going on here. You’d better stay sharp when reading. This isn’t a story written for…

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Nov 2023

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Short story appears in On Spec

So today’s exciting news is I have a short story appearing in On Spec Magazine. What is On Spec? On Spec Magazine is a quarterly journal of Fantastic Literature, published by the Copper Pig Society. The magazine has won several Prix Aurora Awards, and has been a Canadian icon in Fantastic Literature since 1989. My short story I wrote a strange and challenging story, “Water Rights”, which explores not only rights to Canada’s waterways,…

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Sep 2022

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