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…

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,…