With the new year upon us, I thought I would give all you lucky people a glimpse inside my head, or at least the parts of it that like things, and post a run down of all that was good about 2008 from my perspective. I don’t claim to be at the cutting edge ofContinue reading “Damo’s best of 2008”
Author Archives: Damien Walter
Sandman, Angst and Change
I just stumbled into an excellent critique of Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’, here at Grand Hotel Abyss. My soft spot for teh Sandman stories is pretty well catalogued, but I found a whole bundle of insights i this essay that I now thinking through with fascination. What makes it a superb work of literature is theContinue reading “Sandman, Angst and Change”
Clarion Opens for Submissions
Fancy six weeks of science fiction and fantasy bootcamp? Clarion is open for applications. Get to it people! ** Announcing the 2009 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop @ UC San Diego
Mermaidification
I really enjoyed this story by Meredith Schwartz in this weeks Strange Horizons, except for the moment where the story makes it explicit that the narrator is a mermaid. I like the oblique mystery more than the revelation. But I love the word Mermaidification, so all is forgiven.
Community Building
I found this via Tor.com but think it started here. In an effort to catalogue the many excellet SF writing blogs on the net this list has been started. Copy the list to your own blog, and a link to yourself in alphaetical order and then check back to watch the list grow. Wunderbar! ListContinue reading “Community Building”
Clarion 2009 Instructors Announced
The Clarion Foundation have announced the writers teaching the 2009 science fiction and fantasy writers workshop at UC San Diego. Its quite a line-up with Holly Black, Robert Crais, Kim Stanley Robinson, Elizabeth Hand, Larissa Lai and Paul Park. Applications are open from 2nd January – 1st March. Good luck to any aspiring 2009 ClarionitesContinue reading “Clarion 2009 Instructors Announced”
Horizon Reviewed
A review of my short story ‘Horizon’ and the rest of Murky Depth #6 over at SF Crowsnest.
The Great NaNo Rout of 2008
I’ve been trying to find the right word for what NaNoWriMo did to me this year. Defeat sprang to mind, as did disaster. Beaten and thrashed were definite contendors. But rout, with its combination of loss and resignation rolled into one, seemed the most appropriate. Yes, I know, there are still almost 3 hours left.Continue reading “The Great NaNo Rout of 2008”
Cory Doctorow Interview
Willing Science Fiction into Fact Activist-novelist Cory Doctorow explains to Damien G Walter how he hopes his writing will change tomorrow’s world. Cory Doctorow’s office lies behind a featureless, black security door in a north London side street, deep in a converted post-industrial warehouse, down echoing corridors and concrete stairways. It’s an appropriately “underground” headquartersContinue reading “Cory Doctorow Interview”
Shine On
Not that long ago, I made the fairly safe prediction that some enterprising editor would put together an anthology of optimistic sf, and lo! my prediction has come to pass… Jetse de Vries to edit Shine, anthology of optimistic science fiction. I’m going to go out on a limb and make a further prediction thatContinue reading “Shine On”
NaNo…its a bigger thing than the name suggests.
Almost one third into NaNoWriMo and I’m about 5500 words up on my novel. That is about 10,000 words off the NaNo pace, but I’m averaging 600 words a day, which given everything else I have been doing over these nine days is really not too bad. I’m also pretty happy with what those wordsContinue reading “NaNo…its a bigger thing than the name suggests.”
Murky Depths #6 – OUT NOW
Murky Depths #6 is now on sale through the online store, featuring my short story Horizon. Go buy it!
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