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AntiSF Is Thirteen - NO Fourteen! |
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 What better to do on a rainy, rainy, rainy night than sit inside and read short stories, speculative-all, horrific-some, idea-driven-others, and with some rather fantastical whims thrown into the mix therein?
Is this a question that has no answer from your perspective?
I suspect it is the case for me. Suspect in the best possible way.
Indeed, if it were not raining, thus serving the Nambucca Valley with the second week of local flooding, and filling the rivers with debris and mud that makes it dangerous to go boating, not to mention forcing us water babies to reconsider any vague notion of swimming in the ocean (let alone the river), or even walking on the beach — yes, damn it — there may indeed be nothing better to do but be here at my computer screen, writing. But, hey, even if the sun was shining, I'd be here anyway...I love this job.
And it's about time for one of these rambling word missions in the ionosphere anyway. An update. We are at a metre-stone.
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Bus Stop On A Strange Loop - Shaune Lafferty Webb |
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SHAUNE LAFFERTY WEBB: BUS STOP ON A STRANGE LOOP
AUSTRALIA, WINTERBOURNE PUBLISHING, 2011
 Home grown Winterbourne Publishing is: "a boutique e publisher of speculative fiction." So says their blurb. It will then, come as no surprise to discover that the 'bus' referenced in the title is actually a malfunctioning time machine.
Shaune Lafferty Webb's debut opus is futurist, character driven, and kinetic. Set within a corrupt and dystopian Australia, it chronicles the lives of two brothers, one of whom is gifted with a strange ability. Olivia, the other major protagonist, is an insular and disenchanted schoolteacher with a mysterious past.
The novel possesses all the ingredients necessary to make it a stimulating, even thought provoking experience.
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All eyes turned to the cloud, scudding, black, and full of menace. Lightning forked from its centre to strike at random below. Then we realised not random. A terrible precision in the strikes. Too accurate, too devastating, never a target missed. The cloud was on a deliberate premeditated killing spree.
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Speculative Flash Fiction |
You're about to launch into an adventure at AntipodeanSF, the online magazine that's devoted to the regular montly publication of ten fabulous and original science-fiction, fantasy, or horror mini-stories of about 500 words each.
AntipodeanSF will entertain you, yet won't take hours to read.
Please spend a few moments to read this month's stories, reviews, and other information about down-under SF.
AntipodeanSF is also optimised for reading on your i-phone, i-pod, other mobile phone, or PDA device. Read us anywhere!
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AntipodeanSF Radio Show Comment Line Telephone 02 8005 8077 |
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 AntiSF Radio Show listeners — you can leave your audio comments on our new voicemail and recorded comment number.
Ring us now and say a big hello to the SF world, make an audio comment, conduct your own review about a story, give us a shout and say "Bewdy Nuke", or interview yourself with your own questions.
You can also ring the number and read us a story, tell us a speculative joke, or give us a good old science fiction limerick in realtime Asimovian style.
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Do you like your SF in audio?
The AntiSF Radio Show needs narrators for all of those stories that the authors don't want to read, so if you're interested in spinning short yarns that will be broadcast worldwide and on community radio here in Australia please
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