Author Archives: Lexifab

Writing is hard and so is typing

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Lexifab

Here’s what I meant to do: I meant to celebrate the end of my intense Aurealis reading period, which amounted to somewhere around 50 anthologies and collections in about 11 weeks, with a triumphant return to writing, blogging and sending … Continue reading →

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It’s Aurealis season!

Posted on September 22, 2020 by Lexifab

It’s time once again to get your entries in for Australia’s premier speculative fiction awards. The Aurealis Awards celebrate the year’s best in Australian (and Australian-adjacent) science fiction, fantasy and horror writing. And this year – I’m a judge! I’ve … Continue reading →

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Words in Oz: The 2020 Australian SF Snapshot

Posted on July 11, 2020 by Lexifab

The Australian SF Snapshot is a biennial project to take the pulse of the Australian and New Zealand speculative fiction scene. Every couple of years, the organisers conduct a series of very short interviews with active Australian and New Zealand … Continue reading →

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Review – The Obituarist 3: Delete Your Account by Patrick O’Duffy

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Lexifab

Kendall Barber, the digital-life “obituarist” who cleans up and closes the online accounts of the recently-departed, is a real piece of crap human being, as amply demonstrated in the first two volumes of this series, The Obituarist and The Obituarist … Continue reading →

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My ducks require alignment

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Lexifab

My father passed away on the 7th of January, a few months shy of his 80th birthday and nearly two decades after his diagnosis for multiple myeloma gave him a prognosis of between three and six months to live. The … Continue reading →

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