Older Reviews
posted on 12 Aug 2011 at 11:26 pm
Below are some recent reviews I’ve culled from my old LiveJournal site. If you’d like to see more, this link will take you to the distant past (like, 2007).
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- Troubletwisters: The Missing (Missing, Presumed Evil)
- Troubletwisters: The Monster
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- Astropolis: The Grand Conjunction
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- Evergence: The Prodigal Sun
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- A View Before Dying
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- Go (Twinmaker)
- Gods of Space
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- Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams
- Matterpunk (Twinmaker)
- New Adventures in Sci-Fi
- Praying to the Aliens
- Sleeping Boys
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- The Future Trap
- The View from the End of the World
- The E. W. Story Omnibus
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- “Cinnabar Field”
- “Collapsar” & “Gravatar”
- “Echoes of Tithonus”
- “Gathering the Light”
- “Have Heart, Will Travel” / “The Anchor Tree”
- “humbug” (noise sampler)
- “Invisible Assembly”
- “Laura of the Bells”
- “Nostalgiac”
- “Oratunga Noir”
- “Resonance”
- “the air is full of phantoms” (ambient sampler)
- “under the bright Cuernavaca sky” (with Sam Rosenthal)
- Adrift (with deepspace)
- alive in the hall of possibilities
- and_scape
- Inner Real Life
- mach ruhe
- moth
- Slow Pianos
- Structured Ambient Noise
- Isolation
- Spiral Symphony
- Opinions
- “A Day in the Life of…”
- “Behind the Sofa”
- “Big Bang Brussels Sprouts” (recipe)
- “Bondage” (writing advice)
- “Carrie”
- “Collaboration made easy: 6 ways to build a writing relationship”
- “Doctor Who and the Legacy of Rationalism”
- “Elsewhere”
- “From the ‘Angry Shilling’ to the ‘Jealous Wall'”
- “Get Lost” (on novel writing)
- “Hardwired” (interview)
- “Her Name Is Cordelia”
- “Introduction to The Shrieking Pit”
- “Introduction to When I Close My Eyes”
- “Keeping the Pace” (writing advice)
- “Naamgenoot” (The Listserve)
- “No Axis, No Boundary: Defining Science Fiction”
- “On the Dangers of Literature Addiction” (speech)
- “On the Fly” (essay)
- “SF and Music”
- “Sparks”
- “The 10.5 Commandments of Writing”
- “The A-Z of Writing”
- “The Commandments of Writing” (The Conversation)
- “The Nix Files”
- “The Tragic Demise of Science Fiction’s Greatest Idea”
- “Three Visits to the Ring of Kerry”
- “To Sleep No More (Perchance to Write)”
- “What’s In My Bag?”
- “Why Fantasy & Science Fiction?” (speech)
- “Humour, Justice, Belonging, Danger, and Wonder: 5 story senses and the art of writing for children”
- "Introduction to The Lady of Situations"
- Inside a Dog (residency)
- The Adventures of Antarctica Sean
- The Adventures of Canberra Sean
- “MT Promises: Science Fictional Travel Technologies and the Making and Unmaking of Corporeal Identity”
- Poetry
- “Artefact: Ant Attack”
- “Daihaiku” and “Haikaiju”
- “Daikaiju Limericks”
- “Dreamless: Super-Villanelle Dub Mix” and “Dreamless: Super-Villanelle Dub Alternate Mix”
- “Eternity”
- “M-Cubed”
- “Moist”
- “No Solace Among Others”
- “Parched”
- “Reflections on Water”
- “The Origin of Haiku by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Renga in the Struggle for Meaning”
- “The Rise, and Fall, of Neologopolis”
- Haiku
- Limerick
- Short Works
- Fantasy
- “A Better Place”
- “Seeking the Great Current”
- “Team Sharon”
- “The Butterfly Merchant”
- “The Empire’s Son”
- “The Goggle”
- “The Jade Woman of the Luminous Star”
- “The Leaf”
- “The Magic Dirt Experiment”
- “The Mirror in the Middle of the Maze”
- “The Spark (A Romance in Four Acts): A Tale of the Change”
- “Ungentle Fire”
- Five Articles Selected at Random from the Scarlet Exposition
- Horror
- “(Untitled)”
- “Burglar Alarm”
- “Crossed Lines”
- “Doorway to Eternity”
- “Freezing Sarah”
- “Going Nowhere”
- “Hunting Ground”
- “Mary’s Blood”
- “Mawson on the Moon”
- “Nightmare”
- “Passing the Bone”
- “Playing Radio”
- “Playing Radio”
- “Reluctant Misty & the House on Burden Street”
- “Signs of Death”
- “Tears of the Living Dead”
- “The Darkest Night”
- “The Girl-Thing”
- “The Wedding of the Millennium, Part 1: The Twain”
- “The Wedding of the Millennium, Part 2: The Barren Heart”
- “The Winter Gardener”
- “Twist of the Knife”
- “Woman’s Revenge”
- Mainstream
- Sci-Fi
- “A Giant Leap for a Man”
- “A Glimpse of the Marvellous Structure (And the Threat It Entails)”
- “A Longing for the Dark”
- “A Map of the Mines of Barnath”
- “A View Before Dying”
- “A View from the End of the World”
- “All the Wrong Places”
- “Atrax”
- “Cold Sleep, Cold Dreams”
- “Dark Gardens”
- “Death & the Hobbyist”
- “Deconstructing Decompression”
- “Dissolution Days”
- “Dying for Air”
- “Entre les Beaux Morts en Vie”
- “Evermore”
- “Face Value”
- “Ghost of a Day”
- “Ghosts of the Fall”
- “Goddess of Stone”
- “Heartbreak Hotel”
- “Hollow Men”
- “I, Q”
- “Immaterial Progress”
- “In the Eye of the Octopus”
- “Incomplete No.7”
- “Inevitable”
- “Light Bodies Falling”
- “Looking Forward, Looking Back:
- “Loopholes in Light”
- “Love and Mandarins”
- “Lust, Entrapment and the Matter Transmitter: A Case Study”
- “Midnight in the Cafe of the Black Madonna”
- “Murdering Miss Deboo”
- “Mutata Superesse”
- “New Flames for an Old Love”
- “Night of the Dolls”
- “Noah No-one and the Infinity Machine”
- “On the Road to Tarsus”
- “On This Rock”
- “Or Die Trying”
- “Rare Justice”
- “Redux”
- “Reunion”
- “Robbery, Assault and Battery”
- “Salvation”
- “Sing, My Murdered Darlings”
- “Tall Tales about Today My Great-great-granddaughter Will Tell”
- “The Beholders”
- “The Blink”
- “The Cuckoo”
- “The Dark Matters”
- “The End of the World Begins at Home”
- “The Haunted Earth”
- “The Jackie Onassis Swamp-Buggy Concerto”
- “The Land Itself”
- “The Legend Trap”
- “The Lives of Riley”
- “The Mashup”
- “The Masque of Agamemnon”
- “The Missing Metatarsal”
- “The N-Body Solution”
- “The New Venusians”
- “The Nightmare Stars”
- “The Other Forty-Two”
- “The Perfect Gun”
- “The Second Coming of the Martians”
- “The Seventh Letter”
- “The Soap Bubble”
- “The Stuff of Dreams (& Far Stranger Things”
- “The Third and Final Death of Ronald Saw”
- “The Thirteenth Protocol”
- “The Trilerbe Dulciftify”
- “The Truth in Advertising”
- “The Tyranny of Distance”
- “This Magical Life”
- “Tourist”
- “Traffic”
- “Uber”
- “White Christmas”
- “Zero Temptation”
- “The Misadventures of Tom Jones, Time Traveller”
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