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Posted on April 15, 2017

The Granddaughter Paradox published in Sci Phi Journal

My story The Granddaughter Paradox has been published in Sci Phi Journal, an online journal of science fiction with a philosophical twist (or philosophical fiction with a science fiction twist?) Reading the full…

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Posted on March 30, 2017

Review of “Love in Vain”, Lewis Shiner, SF Site 2010

Another Ticonderoga Publications review, following the review of “Ghost Seas” by Steven Utley of the prior post, here is a review of Lewis Shiner’s Love in Vain. Lewis Shiner  is an interesting writer – I…

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Posted on March 30, 2017

Review of “Ghost Seas”, Steven Utley, SF Site, 2010

Original here I reviewed a slew of books from Australia’s Ticonderoga publications around the early 2010s, for the SF Site. All were at the very least interesting, beautifully produced books. Re-reading this…

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Posted on March 25, 2017

Review of Aldebo 1 (Issue 39), SF Site, 2010

Original here. Some interesting thoughts from Martin McGrath on Eskragh here     Aldebo 1 Issue 39   A review by Seamus Sweeney Advertisement     Produced in the North Dublin…

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Posted on September 2, 2016

Le livre d’or de la science fiction: J G Ballard.

On my recent trip to Montmorillon I picked up for six euro a paperback Le Livre d’or de la science fiction: J G Ballard: As French Wikipedia puts it “Le Livre d’or…

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Posted on June 12, 2016June 12, 2016

Perpetual Motion. Part 5 of 5. Nthposition, Sept 2010

Part 1 here.  Part 2 here Part 3 here . Part 4 here Full story here. This story is fairly typical of my rushed efforts of  a rather threadbare narrative and characterisation all around…

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Posted on June 12, 2016

Perpetual Motion. Part 4 of 5. Nthposition, Sept 2010

Part 1 here.  Part 2 here Part 3 here . Full story here     Scene 9. A scene of explication With enormous fanfare, the Creative Online project, or CREON, was launched to…

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Posted on June 10, 2016

Perpetual Motion. Part 1 of 5. Nthposition, September 2010.

Divided (somewhat arbitrarily) into “scenes”, and deriving from some thoughts on AI, and a desire to use the “perpetual motion” game in a story – and with a debt, I…

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