Long Time Expat In Japan
My first short story is going to be published! "Volunteered" -- in which a volunteer lawman transports a murderer to the spaceport on a backwater planet. To get off planet, he will have to run the gauntlet-- has been accepted by Lawless Lands, a short story anthology from Fallstaff Publishing. It is one of twenty … Continue reading Lawless Lands
If you want to be a beta-reader, please send me an email or leave me a comment and I’ll share the rest of the story. — Margot was a spritely one hundred twenty five, or so she thought until she cupped her hands under her protruding belly, trying to hold up the weight that felt … Continue reading Story Excerpt – Clarity
A very good friend of mine recently reviewed Death's End by Cixin Liu and translated by Ken Liu. In the review he writes: Some of the drawbacks may be cultural. It's clear that readers' expectations differ widely across the world. In English fiction, for example, there's the famous shibboleth "show, don't tell." This got me … Continue reading Chinese Literature, Armchair Commentary
Book Review: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson I became an Stephenson fanboy back in the 90s. Snowcrash and Diamond Age were nearly mind altering experiences. Interface, written collaboratively under a pseudonym, also really made me think. Cryptonomicon was awesome in its story as well as its length. But it was the beginning of an unfortunate trend, … Continue reading Book Review: Seveneves
Book Review - Hunters of the Red Moon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley I took a walk down memory lane, took the wayback machine to 1973. That's when the book was written, not when I read it, I'm sure. I would have been all of seven years old, so it is unlikely that I would have … Continue reading Book Review – Hunters of the Red Moon
Book Review-Glasshouse-by Charles Stross Accelerando was the book that sold me on Stross. Probably the book responsible for more "wow" moments in scifi reading in the last decade. Technically, the series of short stories was published in 2005, so I suppose it is more than the last decade. Hair splitting aside, it meant that I … Continue reading Book Review – Glasshouse
If you want to be a beta-reader, please send me an email or leave me a comment and I’ll share the rest of the story. — Matter of Pride I knew he was my Papa from the first time I laid eyes on him. From the time they decanted me, I would follow him around, … Continue reading Story Excerpt – Matter of Pride
If you want to be a beta-reader, please send me an email or leave me a comment and I’ll share the rest of the story. — It Shoots Johnny woke to his mother's screams. He stumbled down to the living room, bleary-eyed. Through the large bay window in the living room he could see Boston … Continue reading Story Exerpt – It Shoots
Book Review (spoilers) The Red By Linda Nagata Just finished reading The Red. I got an actual paperback for a change. I was reading through some award nominees and also JohnnScalzi's blog. I came across a Big Idea on the blog for the sequel to The Red. And I also saw it was nominated for … Continue reading Book Review – The Red
More figurative pen to paper. If you want to be a beta-reader, please send me an email or leave me a comment and I'll share the rest of the story. --- Old Enough She was twenty three, and I was two hundred ninety one. We met in the ring city above Solaris, the planet where … Continue reading Story Exerpt – Old Enough
B.S. Donovan 