Unlike my last two posts in this "supporting genres"series, today's is a true-blue genre. The problem is, as many of you will realise, that it takes me way, way out of my comfort zone. However, with this week being National Science Week in Australia, I decided that it was a good time to tackle this … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Supporting genres, 8: Science fiction
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Monday musings on Australian literature: Women science fiction writers
This year's National Science Week finished yesterday, 19 August, but I figured no-one would mind if I wrote a Science-Week-dedicated post a day late. In past years I've written Science Week posts on novels about scientists (2015), science-based non-fiction (2015), and science writing (2016). I didn't write a post last year. So, what to do … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Women science fiction writers
Ted Chiang, Story of your life (or, Arrival) (Review)
Whenever I see a film, I go to Arti's Ripple Effects blog to see whether she's reviewed it. Sometimes she has, sometimes she hasn't. As with books, I don't read reviews before I see films, so I can never remember whether I've seen a review post pass through my inbox. Consequently, when we saw the … Continue reading Ted Chiang, Story of your life (or, Arrival) (Review)
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