My Writing Week: Issue 12, Year 5.
Hi all, I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned the nominees for the Aurealis speculative fiction awards in my blog. One reason is a lot of other bloggers list the nominees, the other is that I have rarely read any of the nominees. But this year is different, for once I have read two of the novels nominated for best science fiction novel. AUREALIS BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL NOMINEES: Machine Man by Max Barry (Scribe Publications) Children of Scarabaeus by Sara Creasy (HarperVoyager) The Waterboys by Peter Docker (Fremantle Press) Black Glass by Meg Mundell (Scribe Publications) The Courier’s New Bicycle by Kim Westwood (HarperVoyager) The last two novels I have read just happen to be Machine Man and The Courier’s New Bicycle. They are two very different novels. Machine Man is a satire about a mechanical engineer who slowly replaces his body parts with mechanical arms devices. While The Courier’s New Bicycle is a thriller where a courier tries to find out who is ...