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Fang Fischer Catches a Fly
And lo, the foul Winged Beast did step foolishly unto the maw of Fang Fischer, and thereupon did his dirty little feet get caught on the goop therein. Enjoy your meal, Fang.
No Plan Survives Contact With the Enemy
At the end of 2013, I started a novel, wrote the first 45% in a blaze of clattering keys - then shelved it for a year. Real Life and Study got in the way of things, and just when I pulled my nose out of the books, a couple of opportunities to write commissioned short...
Meet Fang Fischer
We have flies in Australia. Many, many flies. Consequently, many spiders. Both of these things are wrong, and usually arrive in tandem with summer, when our sun becomes a Flaming Bastard Murderball and tries to kill us all. In an attempt to at least limit the flies, I...
Leaving Facebook, and the Art of Distracting from Distraction
Hey folks! Well, it's been a few weeks since I pulled the plug on the old Facebook account. Not a permanent move, but I'm definitely going to keep it switched off for the rest of the financial year. Since doing this, I've blown the dust from my yet-to-be-named...
Another review of The Glorious Aerybeth (from On Spec #97)
And what a review! Eamonn Murphy from SF Crows Nest had this to say about my story: "‘The Glorious Aerybeth’ by Jason Fischer is one of those superb Science Fiction stories that you come across once in a blue moon. The Glorious Aerybeth, named after the Empress, is a...
Goodbye Facebook!
(lifted from my Facebook page) Well, I've come to the realisation that I am wasting too much time online. Like a distracted bowerbird faced with too many shiny things, I hop about and gather rubbish for my nest and effectively do fuck all. Because I don't possess any...
Reviews of “The Glorious Aerybeth”
Some reviews have started to hit the net following the publication of my story "The Glorious Aerybeth" in On Spec magazine, issue #97. Reviewer Colleen Chen from Tangent Online says: "During my first read-through of this story, I was completely confused. It introduces...
Review of Australian Fiction: “Percy’s War” by Jason Fischer AVAILABLE NOW
My story "Percy's War" has just been released in the new issue of Review of Australian Fiction. When I say it's my story, that's not exactly true. "Percy's War" is the story of my great-grandfather, Percy Altschwager, who served in World War I in the Middle East....
Cthulhu: Deep Down Under CROWDFUNDER
I've been lucky enough to score a slot in the upcoming book Cthulhu: Deep Down Under. The stories and artwork are all based around H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos series, with the twist that these pieces are all set in Australia. So the book has been done, and all the...
Audio Fisch
Something that always tickles me pink is hearing my writing on a podcast or radio show. Ion Newcombe from Antipodean SF runs an online radio show to go along with his legendary flash fiction magazine, and he's been recently posting readings of some of my early...
On Spec Magazine “The Glorious Aerybeth” by Jason Fischer
On Spec Magazine are Canada's premier speculative fiction magazine, and their latest issue has just been released into the wild like a moose on a maple-syrup powered dirt-bike, busting mad moves in the pristine forest and just daring you to look at him funny. Ahem....
Another review of Everything is a Graveyard
Hey folks! Have had fun during Author August (especially my visit to Flinders University yesterday) but I'll blog about everything in earnest when August is done and dusted. In the meantime, I've just spotted another Fischery review in the wild, this time from my...