In space, everyone can give you an award!
With mild temps and milder temperaments, the Beamers re-united to discuss the most awarded science fiction novel of recent years, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, a book that brings together artificial intelligence, multi-body existence, genderless language, and political intrigue. It is also full of songs.
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First I heard of blog hopping, cool concept
Thanks to Sandy Curtis for tagging me for this blog hop.
Sandy Curtis lives on Queensland’s Central Coast, not far from the beach where she loves to walk and mull over the intricate plots in her novels. Her husband says he doesn’t know how she keeps it all in her head, and her friends think she must be far more devious than she appears.
Actually, after having dealt with the chaos involved in rearing three children, dogs, cats, guinea pigs, and a kookaburra (teaching it to fly was murder), creating complex characters, fast-paced action and edge-of-your-seat suspense is a breeze for Sandy.
Her first five novels were published by Pan Macmillan Australia, were nominees in the Ned Kelly Crime Awards, and two were finalists in the mainstream section of the Romantic Book of the Year Award. They were also published in Germany by Bastei Luebbe, and are now available as…
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To celebrate sci-fi month here at Bloomsbury Reader, we spoke to internationally best-selling science fiction writer, Patrick Tilley. Tilley is the author of Fade-Out, which looks at the meltdown of society in the face of alien invasion, Mission, a sci-fi novel of biblical proportions, and The Amtrak Wars Saga, a six volume post-apocalyptic epic.
After a career in illustration and graphic design, Tilley broke into writing for television, before progressing to cinema. Luckily for sci-fi fans the world over, the silver screen didn’t agree with him.
“I was involved in script writing for major feature films – not always credited – finally culminating in a miserable six months,” Patrick explains. “After the last meeting I came back home thinking ‘there has to…
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I qualify on the introvert scale
Lovely poetry and artwork
I was out in the wind today.
Standing alone
in the howling wind
not wanting the time for reflection.
It blew the cobwebs away.
Image by James Bowe via Flickr
I had reams and reams
of my fourth step
for her inward inspection.
I shared with my friend
My mourning .
She shared with me her noon.
We shared
very deeply about
Spirituality
in all things
We shared
with laughter about life
I was out in the wind today
It blew the cobwebs away.
Silent Appraisal 