His next one, Chained to the Alien, will be an anthology of essays from Australian Science Fiction Review (Second Series). Other recent publications include two collaborative SF novels: The Book of Revelation, written with Rory Barnes, and Post Mortal Syndrome, written with his wife Barbara Lamar. The author's recent tales for Asimov's have taken some inspiration from classic SF writers like A.E. van Vogt, Theodore Sturgeon, and Roger Zelazny. Damien now appears in our pages with a decidedly Dickian meditation on...Jive Bolen exited his cramped office inside the two hundred story zeugma complex in the heart of nouveau Manhattan. Summer's noon sun was a blurry disk high overhead, easily visible even through the crowding skyscrapers. The size of a ten dollar coin at arm's length. Or so he'd read in the pape during morning coffee break, hoping to ferret out some lively snippet to throw into his next abortive conversation with Jolene, the building's peripatetic Vogelsangerin, with whom he had been desperately smitten for at least the last four thwarted months.
What do You think about Asimov's SF, February 2010?
