And thankyou for your kind words, I’m glad you liked the piece. There’s a few stories I’ve published in this setting now, and I’m hoping to crank out a novel with Raoul and friends a bit later this year.

You shouldn’t feel you can’t review people you know, molecularly or otherwise. If that was the case, nothing in Australia would ever get reviewed a smallish pond here, and as long as you play the ball and not the player, no-one reasonable ever takes offence at negative crits.

Yes, this is the third year running he’s contributed a review for the WotF volume, and I hope that tradition continues on.

Writers of the Future is the publication that I most look forward to every year, and your story was one of my favorites this year. (I just don’t tend to write reviews of them but I am too much of a wuss to feel comfortable writing negative reviews of people I know from online forums)