AJ Stanton | 2021
The opening paragraph, the simple (but not simplistic) prose and the sardonic wisecrackery of the narrator can lull the reader into thinking that Sex Robots Must Die is a flimsy and lightweight affair.
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The Arcachon Continuum
My latest semi-autobiographical text appears in
Plutonics Journal, Volume XV, alongside many other good works of fiction, speculation, research and art. Read more
new story news
05-07-21
A QUINDECILLION OF CAIN is up at Antipodean SF. Read more
Burroughs and Scotland
Dethroning the Ancients: the commitment of exile | Chris Kelso | 2020
[posted 07-06-21]
And so, on to Burroughs and Scotland, in which Chris Kelso looks at the relationship between William S Burroughs (WSB) and the titular country, and El Hombre Invisible’s influence on Kelso and earlier generations of Scottish writers. Read more
new story publication
13-05-21. Fugitives & Futurists has just published ON THE MULTITUDE OF DISTRACTIONS TO BE ENCOUNTERED WHILE MAKING LOVE TO THE CAP DE L’HOMY PLAGE . It joins AND LIFE, ORBITING A MAIN SEQUENCE STAR II on the excellent F & F website. Read more
New story news
19-04-21. I recently heard from Ion Newcombe at Antipodean SF, who wants to publish my new short-short story A QUINDECILLION OF CAIN in Issue 274…thanks Ion. I was also asked if I’d like to have CAIN appear on Antipodean SF Radio…with me narrating. I said yes. Thanks Ion (I think)… Read more
SUBURB OF THE PARANOIAC-CRITICAL WRITER; ONE AFTERNOON ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF EUROPEAN FICTION
Moving towards the locus solus
he observed the lingering homophobia of the town and the disapproval of McKendrick’s fluid flow. Read more
the sycamore tree
The sky blacked out.
It began to rain, but he didn’t move. Bigger droplets fell ever faster as he stood in front of his father’s grave. The stone darkened in seconds, even quicker than his clothes. Read more
NICOLO’S GIFTS
There’s good news and there’s bad news with this, the debut novel from Neil Ayres.
The bad news is that Nicolo’s Gifts is both too long and too short. Read more
Apex Digest – Volume 1: Issue 7
Apex nearly died a while ago, which means that in a parallel world, this issue never appeared. Or in another parallel world, it did appear, but on Gliese 581c, as a William Morris wallpaper pattern, perhaps called Apex Red House, Pattern Number 7. Read more
VISITS FROM THE DROWNED GIRL
Cards on the table.
I don’t believe that writing can be taught. As with painting (pictures you fool, not doorframes), writing is an art. It cannot be measured or accounted or explained, except by philistine dullards. Read more