• Dodging Commas: The world constructed in the novel is intricate and flawless, and the characters are complex and flawed. It’s a beautiful combination!

    A lovely review at the Dodging Commas site: 'This is a stunning novel – beautifully written and gorgeous with its imagery, the novel is more than just words on a page.'

  • XX Hard SF 'If depth of background research is what sells the book as hard SF, its exploration of sociological and political ideas is probably what will cause it to linger in the reader’s mind'

    Simon Petrie's review of When We Have Wings for his XX Hard SF project, reviewing hard SF by women writers. 'The writing is resonant and elegant, and lies towards the literary end of the SF spectrum,…

  • A Short History of Richard Kline - Amanda Lohrey's new novel

    I will be talking with acclaimed Australian novelist Amanda Lohrey at Gleebooks on March 25 about her wonderful new novel A Short History of Richard Kline. “I woke with a gasp. And lay in the dark,…

  • Damn the torpedoes...full speed ahead! My latest piece on Australia's Future Submarine

    The government's shambolic approach to acquiring Australia's Future Submarine is alarmingly incoherent and lacking in process. My latest piece for The Monthly.

  • Australia's Future Submarine - Sydney Mechanics School of Arts

    My submarine talk has been rescheduled, for Tuesday, 17 March 2015, 12:30pm – 1:30pm Venue: Mitchell Theatre 'Submarines have loomed ever larger in the news of late, from the visit of Japanese Prime…

  • Australian writers pick the best books of 2014

    I had zero expectations of finding When We Have Wings on this list, as it was published in 2011. So many thanks to Lisa Jacobson for not only choosing the book as her highlight of the year but for…

  • Best Australian Stories 2014

    The Best Australian Stories 2014 Edited by Amanda Lohrey ‘The art of the story is mostly about the journey, and the economy of means with which the writers here carry us a great distance is at times…

  • British Science Fiction Association - 24 November

    I am so looking forward to this - an interview as a guest of the BSFA in the Artillery Arms. My interviewer is brilliant academic, writer and sometime game designer Dr Colin Harvey. This night will…

  • British Science Fiction Association - 19 November

    I am so looking forward to this - an interview as a guest of the BSFA in the Artillery Arms. My interviewer is brilliant academic, writer and sometime game designer Dr Colin Harvey. This night will…