Here is another in my special podcasts of BAD crime authors ( You can find another on the Podcasts page!)
Margaret Hickey with ‘Cutter’s End’, Suzanne Leal with ‘The Deceptions’ ‘ and Rae Cairns with ‘The Good Mother‘. These three authors will be appearing again at BAD with new novels so I have featured them together. The BAD crime writers festival starts next Wednesday at the Mitchell Library in Sydney. Look up their website for all the details https://www.badsydney.com/
Matthew R. Davis is an author and heavy metal musician who has published over 70 short stories and poems. This novel follows a young man spiraling disillusionment with life in a small town, and the the danger he places himself and others in as he attempts to change his life.
The inhabitants of Earth have divided into human and non human and have been at war for a thousand years with Heaven. The few remaining human tribes are devolving, as they scratch out a living on a destroyed plant. They live a timid existence until Ferren, different from the others, finds a fallen angel . Befriending her, he bravely sets out to discover the truth about his world.
As the virtual world becomes increasingly sophisticated and seductive, will we finally have to choose between ‘meat life’ and Gaia- where everything is beautiful and no-one ever ages? A beautifully written debut novel that explores what it means to be ‘human’.
It’s one thing to work as a private detective wearing a disguise- but what if you can completely change your form and face at will? Phillip Berrie’s protagonist thinks he is unique , a ‘mutant’, but in investigating another case suddenly finds out a confronting truth about his possible origins and the source of his ‘superpower’.
The ‘Ghost Bird’ in this novel is an indigenous story told to children around the fire at night. For two sisters, mirror twins , it becomes real when one of them mysteriously disappears. The remaining sister sets out to find her, but must be brave enough to break taboos surrounding the incident.
In this collection of Speculative fiction you will discover all kinds of worlds ! Kaaron Warren reads from her short story here but she also has many full length novels in publication.
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Recorded at Conflux 2023
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