The lovely Ripley Patton is collating a list of Sir Julius Vogel eligible stories and people for the SpecFic NZ website. She ( Read more... )

This story is a part of the Spec the Halls contest for speculative winter holiday-themed fiction, artwork, and poetry. You may find guidelines and links to other entries at http://www.aswiebe.com/specthehalls.html

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This week a story I wrote with the deliberately provocative title “Murray the Sex Machine” was published online by sentientonline.net, a relatively new Australian SF/Gaming/Philosophy/Fiction site. They have some interesting interviews with Australian authors, some science articles and now some of the greatest fiction ever written in the English ( Read more... )

Today is the last day of NZ Spec Fic Blogging Week - a week which has given me a lot of interesting reading material and pointed me in the direction of some great writing fun.  Having now found and joined www.kiwiwriters.org I decided to jump into the September Zing Thing Challenge.  The challenge is to write and edit a short story this weekend ( Read more... )