The voice of Reading Rainbows (and Star Trek’s Geordie La Forge) has honoured the Twinmaker universe with a reading of “Face Value”, one of the spin-off stories featuring detecting duo Forest Sargent. Originally published in Lightspeed (here), it’s a tale of kidnapping, conspiracy and high crime in a post-scarcity world where transporters reign supreme. (Does […]
The synopsis that follows is something I wrote for my first-year creative writing students at Flinders University. It’s based on the result of a story-generation exercise (the creation of Nina Kiriki Hoffman) that uses a 20-sided dice to give you random elements (protagonist, antagonist, setting, goal, etc) that you then combine into a new story. […]
Daily SF has been such a good home for my flash fiction this year. In 2017 they published “The Winter Gardener” (inspired by my visit to Casey research station in Antarctica and The Thing),“Uber” (about parallel worlds and social justice), and “A Better Place” (based on a dream I had about the death of my […]
The Library of Babel is real. Of course it is, because the internet. Jorge Luis Borges’ short story about a universe comprising a vast library that contains every possible 410-page book has been made real and can be searched online. This is something I am delighted to learn. From the website: The Library of Babel […]