Here's a recent blogger's review of Majestrum, the first Henghis Hapthorn novel. The blogger, Hornrimmed Magpie, says, "The idea that you will, in time, be subsumed by something that is you and yet your opposite is profoundly unsettling, and Hapthorn's attempts to soldier on, to make allowances, and yet maintain the upper hand are mesmerizing." It's a welcome comment, because it goes to the core of what the Hapthorn books are really about. They are a study of a proud (hell, hubristic) man having to come to terms with his own inevitable diminishment, as indeed we all do when we come to realize what age will eventually do to us.
Gordon Van Gelder, editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, is also the editor of a themed anthology, Welcome to the Greenhouse. All the stories (including a lightweight, humorous offering of mine, "Not a Problem"), are about climate change anthology. He recently did has done an interesting radio interview on the book and on short sff in general. My name comes up midway through.
I haven't been posting much lately because I'm trying to get as much done as possible on the spec thriller I'm writing, before I have to up-stakes and relocate from New Zealand (beautiful place) to Italy (just as beautiful, but of course different). I've got 50,000 words in the can and the central character, an ex-soldier dying of leukemia who kills people who really deserve it, is evolving nicely.
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