Read this. If that opening paragraph doesn’t grab you then nothing will. Summer In Paris, Light From the Sky is a beutiful short story from Ken Scholes. I’d never heard of Ken before, but I’ll certainly loo out for more of his writing now. I’ve been reading a lot of short fiction online recently. TheContinue reading “Alternative History”
Category Archives: Writing Journal
Bears
Just read a pretty cool story name of Bears over at Strange Horizons, the site some are calling the future of speculative fiction. Judging by this story they may just be write. Sometime soon somebody is going to figure out that Heidegger and Stan Lee aren’t mutual exclusive poles of a cultural spectrum. More andContinue reading “Bears”
Electric Velocipede #13
Issue 13 of Electric Velocipede magazine launches tomorrow at World Fantasy Con in Saratoga, US. Among the contents is my short story ‘Momentum’. Its one of the shortest stories I’ve ever written, and just over one thousand words. EV editor John Klima has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award. Fingers crossed that he getsContinue reading “Electric Velocipede #13”
Literary Hot Shots
Ever wondered who the most important people in British publishing are? Well wonder no more as the Evening Standard reveals the most influential people in literary life. Read ’em and weep! And then draw your own conclusions.
The Fix
TTA Press, best known as publishers of Interzone and Black Static (formerley The Third Alternative) have relaunched their short story review magazine The Fix as an online publication. Its an exceptionally high quality online venue for genre fiction reviews, so I highly recommend dropping in and subscribing to their RSS feed. I’ve volunteered to reviewContinue reading “The Fix”
Annoyed
Just lost the best part of an evening trying to get may Mac to talk with my old Windows laptop. Bah! I’m going back to pens and paper. I haven’t updated about my writing progress recently so here goes… Firstly I’m not doing NaNoWriMo this time around. It was a great learning experience last yearContinue reading “Annoyed”
Countdown to Doomsday
I haven’t made any meaningful posts for a while. I’ve been working quite hard on ‘Rings’ so there hasn’t been much free time for work. Even though the finished story will only be 3 – 4k it’s in a very dense first person style which I’m enjoying, but it means a high work to wordContinue reading “Countdown to Doomsday”
Transmission – The Pulp Fiction Issue
Featuring ‘Chaser’ by Damien G Walter They took his freedom. Now he will take revenge… http://www.transmissionhq.org
Damo’s Birthday
Thanks Ivory!
Momentum
I’ve just completed the handful of edits asked for by the editor at Electric Velocipede to my short story Momentum. It was nice reading it through again, I don’t think I have looked at it for over a year. The magazine is scheduled to launch at the World Fantasy Convention, 1st – 4th November ’07.Continue reading “Momentum”
LeGuin vs. Winterson
Ursula K LeGuin has reviewed the new novel from Jeanette Winterson ‘The Stone Gods’, a novel which as previously recounted here on The Fiction Front is according to its author absolutely not science fiction, despite containing space ships and aliens. LeGuin identifies Wintersons folly exactly when she says: ‘I am bothered, though, by the curiousContinue reading “LeGuin vs. Winterson”
Missing FCon
Bugger, I’ve missed FantasyCon. Birthday and evil cold have conspired to keep me away. Oh well, next year then.
Damien Walter 