Mar 22
Work, leisure, nature, and culture, all previously dispersed, separate, and more or less irreducible activities that produced anxiety and complexity in our real life, and in our ‘anarchic and archaic’ cities, have finally become mixed, massaged, climate controlled, and domesticated into the simple activity of perpetual shopping. All these activities have finally become desexed into …
Oct 15
My Aurora pin arrived by mail on Friday. The Prix Aurora Awards are the Canadian version of the Hugo. My book, Technicolor Ultra Mall, was short-listed for best novel. While it didn’t win, it was quite an honour to be nominated. And congrats to Robert J. Sawyer, who did win, for the third novel in …
Oct 09
M1K3Y has reviewed Technicolor Ultra Mall for the well-known and much-loved Coilhouse. A sample: Come for the ultraviolence, stay for the science-fictional mind-juice. This is a masterfully written must-read for anyone trying to understand just how this world of ours could all go horribly wrong(er). You can read the entire review here.
Jul 08
The first evening of Polaris, I sat alone in a food-court, eating a plate of General Tsao’s Fried Chicken and thinking: Is this why I wrote Technicolor Ultra Mall? To end up in a Markham hotel/mall, trying to market a nightmare of malls, marketing and television to people who are in a mall, dressed up like …
Jul 04
You can get a free ebook of my Aurora Award and Sunburst Award nominated novel Technicolor Ultra Mall here today. The Sunburst jury describes it like so: “This ultra-sharp, darkly satiric, hyper-speed novel is set in a world where multi-level mega malls serves as city states and everything on the outside lies in ruin. On …
Jun 27
AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review has reviewed Technicolor Ultra Mall. I don’t want to call Ryan Oakley’s 2012 Aurora nominee A Clockwork Orange 2.0. There are so many other ways to describe it: it’s raw and bloody; beautiful and horrific; staccato like a machine-gun; and as fresh as it is familiar. His homage to Burgess’s 1962 classic could …
Jun 26
Technicolor Ultra Mall has been short-listed for a Sunburst Award. The Sunburst jury says: “This ultra-sharp, darkly satiric, hyper-speed novel is set in a world where multi-level mega malls serves as city states and everything on the outside lies in ruin. On the lower red levels, gang violence and media saturation and bio-tech designer drugs rule. During …
Jun 08
I’m the featured author at World’s Biggest Bookstore. As part of that, there’s an interview with me up at Sci-Fi fan Letter. You can read it here.
Jun 06
Today (June 6th) you can get a free e-copy of my Aurora Award nominated novel Technicolor Ultra Mall from Amazon at this link. Free is about the best deal you’re going to get and it’s only for a limited time so get on it. Also feel free (ahem) to spread the word using your assorted …
"This ultra-sharp, darkly satiric, hyper-speed novel is set in a world where multi-level mega malls serves as city states and everything on the outside lies in ruin. On the lower red levels, gang violence and media saturation and bio-tech designer drugs rule. During the weekend, slummers from the green levels leave their safe lives of jobs and families to partake in risky, sometimes deadly, fun on the red levels. And on every level, TV and advertisements literally penetrate the mind. Death is easy and life cheap, until that life is your own or your beloveds. Extreme stylization, great characters, and a high-level of intensity is maintained throughout. This is a whip-smart, truly violent novel that has at its core a still very human pulsing heart."
