As I was reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora, I kept thinking of that old quote from Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, “Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one
Category: books
Review: The Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Back in 2010, I was fortunate enough to be at the 68th World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne when Paolo Bacigalupi’s debut novel The Windup
Coming of Age in Joe Abercrombie’s Shattered Sea Trilogy
On Saturday I had the privilege of hosting a conversation with British fantasy author Joe Abercrombie at the 2015 Perth Writers Festival. It was an
My Best Reads of 2014
There’s something about the Australian summer that encourages a kind of languor, an apathy towards work that escalates alongside the temperature. The sky reaches the deepest
Review: The Martian, by Andy Weir
It’s not often that I read novels in the same year that they were published – my usual reading interests are very much based in the nineteenth
Finding Inspiration
Someone recently told me that everything you learnt about writing is in your five favourite novels. I don’t necessarily agree with this – my favourite novels
Andrew R. Cameron 