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I have written articles, reviews, songs, and occasionally travelogues, stories, and poems. Many of the articles linked here I originally wrote as contributions to the amateur press Aotearapa or Warp,the magazine of New Zealand's now-defunct National Association for Science Fiction. A couple of others were written for publication in New Zealand newspapers such as The Otago Daily Times and The New Zealand Herald.
A poem which I wrote has recently been
published in a collection of New Zealand poetry on science fictional themes.
Information about the book, Voyagers, can be found at this
site.
Articles and reviews
Edge of Memory - Lost TV Science Fiction from the 1960s and 1970sI've also written a handful of travelogues of journeys through New Zealand, with Alice or (in one case) with a former partner. They're a bit one-note, but they're all here for the sake of completeness:Flags - articles about the flag history of several countries, plus articles on flags for Otago and New Zealand
An overall aesthetic preference in art and music - I have noticed a similarity between my interests in art and music. This article deals with this similarity.
Reviews of music albums as they have appeared in Aotearapa.
1000 km by rail: Christchurch to Hamilton, 1989Part of my work is as an arts reviewer for the Otago Daily Times,for whom I have written over 100 reviews.Many of those articles can now be accessed from the ODT's website, here.
Songs for Swinging Yuppies (The Moomins, 1989)I also write and am embarrassed by filks - parody songs, often of a science-fictional nature. These usually put spoof lyrics to well known songs, with subject matter ranging from 2001: A space odyssey to armadillos.Partial Rapture Theory (solo, 1996)
The treasurer's reports - My most enjoyable writing for Warp was the Treasurer's reports I did, each of them as a parody of the style of a well-known writer. This was largely in response to the work of the previous Treasurer (and now published author) Tim Jones, who presented his reports as a serial in the style of H. P. Lovecraft.Mikhail Glevunov - the biography of a justifiably long-forgotten classical composer.
Appalling! Science fiction magazine presents Thomas Covenant meets Servalan - a creative writing exercise: "Write a spoof meeting between two science fictional characters in the style in which the fiction about one of them is normally written." Here then, in true mock-Stephen Donaldson style, is a meeting between his antihero, Covenant, and Blake's Seven's super-bitch military leader.
An Alternative history of the Beatles' later career, working on the premise that Brian Epstein didn't die in 1967. A little simplistic, but 'twas fun to write.