by Jason Fischer | Mar 22, 2011 | Awards
The shortlists for this year’s Aurealis Awards have just been released into the wild, and can be read here:
http://aurealisawards.com/finalists2010.pdf
So bust out the Crayolas and colour me tickled pink, I’m a Finalist! How exciting, and somewhat humbling that my book has snuck in next to these other two amazing writers and their works:
HORROR Novel
After the World: Gravesend, Jason Fischer, Black House Comics
Death Most Definite, Trent Jamieson, Orbit (Hachette)
Madigan Mine, Kirstyn McDermott, Pan Macmillan
Oh Gravesend, you’re the little engine that could 🙂 a huge congrats to everyone else who made this year’s shortlists. I don’t envy the work of the judges in any category, that’s one solid list.
by Jason Fischer | Mar 21, 2011 | Reviews
The fifth issue of Midnight Echo has just been reviewed at Scaryminds, and of my two stories the reviewer says:
“Included are of course Jason Fischer’s award winning flash piece Goggy, I can’t praise this piece enough, it’s quintessential flash while get a real chill happening.”
“Jason Fischer has been kicking some goals on the short story front just recently, and Hunting Rufus continues a recent sub-genre trend of the killer kangaroo yarn. Absolutely loved this story with it’s almost apocalyptic nod at the conclusion.”
The rest of the review can be read here: http://www.scaryminds.com/reviews/2011/magazine11.php
by Jason Fischer | Mar 21, 2011 | Funny/WTF?
doo-dah, doo-dah…
by Jason Fischer | Mar 18, 2011 | Funny/WTF?
I can say with some authority that 80s permed ladies wearing leopard print leotards almost never appeared during any Dungeons and Dragons game. At least, not the ones I went to. This is probably for the best, we were 15 and unlikely to cope.
by Jason Fischer | Mar 17, 2011 | Reviews
Over at the SF Site, prolific short-fiction reviewer Rich Horton has looked at the fiction offerings from Aurealis #44. Of my story “gunning for a tinkerman”, he says:
“Jason Fischer offers another piece in the same milieu as his story from #42, “for want of a jesusman.” “gunning for a tinkerman” features a former “jesusman,” Lanyard Everett, looking for another despised character, a “tinkerman,” who keeps mechanical things going but is blamed for the state of their strange world. His journey on a cranky “skiff” (a sort of landboat) brings him against a monstrous snake, sinister witches, and a town of “crooked men.” It’s a dark and cynical tale of multiple betrayals.”
The rest of the review can be read here: http://www.sfsite.com/03b/au340.htm
This story is in the same setting as the emergent Project Lucy, the full name being “Papa Lucy and the Boneman”. Yep, a jesusman novel is in the works 🙂
