Broderick's Dark Gray finally sighted over U.S. shores.
First, Damien’s story “This Wind Blowing, and This Tide,” is a finalist for a 2010 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, a juried award that recognizes the previous year’s outstanding science fiction short stories. The award will be presented July 18 at the Campbell Conference, a science fiction literary gathering held annually at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. The story, which first appeared in Asimov’s, is already slated to appear in a few of the year’s “Best of…” collections.
Second, Fantastic Books has just released a U.S. edition of Dark Gray, a novel of UFO abduction by Damien and fellow Aussie Rory Barnes. According to Damien, “the novel hovers (sort of like a flying saucer in need of a carwash) between dirty realism, comedy and science fiction.” The tome was published by HarperCollins in Australia a few years ago under the title The Book of Revelation.
No word on whether Damien is more fond of Cooper’s or Broken Hill, but please make it something more upscale than Foster’s.
