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Posted on January 27, 2016

Fiction updates

A while ago (during November, to be exact) I blogged that I was using NaNoWriMo as a framework for trying to finish a story I was writing. I wrote that I…

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Posted on December 20, 2015

Eugene Vodolazkin, “Laurus”

I  bought “Laurus” shortly after reading this TLS blog piece , and very shortly after reading some enthusiastic pieces on other blogs, wishing to read it before I could form any preconceptions…

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Posted on November 25, 2015

Review of “Red Inferno”, Robert Conroy, SF Site 2010

My first SF Site review, and continuing the theme of alternate history. Conroy’s work is much more straightforwardly alternate history than Owen Sheers’ Resistance , and a much less impressive literary work,…

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Posted on November 24, 2015

Review of “Through A Distant Mirror Darkly”, by Mark Lord. SF Site 2014

I read Tim Severin’s The Brendan Voyage over the last few days – a wonderful adventure story and a stirring depiction of how medieval technology was adapted to the conditions it faced.…

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Posted on November 21, 2015January 9, 2019

Alt Kafka: Franz Kafka and Alternate History. Blog post on Alt Hist site, March 13, 2013

The original post is subtitled “Franz Kafka in Alternate History”. Re-reading the post I wonder if “and” is more precise, although as the bulk of the piece is a review…

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Posted on September 20, 2015September 22, 2015

“Dublin Can Be Heaven”, Alt Hist. December 2011

This is my first fiction piece published outside of nthposition.com. I gave the background to the piece in an interview with Alt Hist’s editor Mark Lord you can read here . The…

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