Monthly Archives: October 2016
Review of Vigil in The Age
The delightful Rjurik Davidson reviews Vigil in The Melbourne Age (and the Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times).
Vigil review: Angela Slatter creates a seriously weird version of Brisbane
Angela Slatter won the World Fantasy Award for The Bitterwood
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New Review of Vigil
Many thanks to the delightful Maria Haskins for this great review of Vigil!
Angela Slatter’s ‘Vigil’ is a whodunnit wrapped up in a dark, urban fantasy world, and one of the many delightful things about this terrific page-turner of
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Strange California: Kickstarter
Okay, a kickstarter for your attention: Strange California. Starring Oz’s very own, very talented, Suzanne Willis, as well as Elise Tobler and Spencer Ellsworth among others (equally talented but possibly less Australian). It’s edited by Jaym Gates and J. Daniel
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Over at Tor.com: Five Mosaic Novels You Should Read

Art from Lavie Tidhar’s Central Station
Yay, my PhD didn’t entirely go to waste coz I got to write this article for Tor.com!
Five Mosaic Novels You Should Read
A mosaic novel, you say? What’s that
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Review: Of Sorrow and Such
Well, a year since its release and my lovely Ditmar Award winning Tor.com novella, Of Sorrow and Such keeps getting nice reviews. Huzzah! Thanks, Alasdair Stuart.
Mistress Gideon is a witch. The people of Eddas Meadow, the village where she lives, either
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Soooo, one of the secrets I’ve been sitting on this year is the new Hellboy prose anthology,
When I was in the UK in August I was lucky enough to be invited to read at one of the Unsung Stories gigs with awesome talents Malcolm Devlin, Rob Boffard and Elie Lee.
I’ll be in Melbourne over the weekend teaching on Sunday, and on
Monday 24 I’ll be doing a reading from Vigil as part of the Wheeler Centre’s The Next Big Thing.
A.C. Buchanan lives just north of Wellington. They’re the author of Liquid City and Bree’s Dinosaur and their short fiction has most recently been published in the Accessing the Future anthology from FutureFire.net and the Crossed Genres Publications anthology Fierce Family.