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Q&A with… Dan Marshall
Dan Marshall is an author, musician, photographer and all-out geek living in Portland, Oregon. His debut cyberpunk novel The Lightcap was released in 2013. I reviewed it here. Hi Dan! Can you introduce yourself? Hi there, Richard! Thanks for giving me some space on your blog. It’s much appreciated. I’m a 33-year-old science fiction author,…
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Review: One
Last week I read a book in a week, which seems no small feat but it did involve a week of 3AM reading sessions. This, I feel, sums up how good I found One by Conrad Williams to be. A post-apocalyptic survival story set in a UK devastated by a cataclysm known only as The…
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Writing Challenge: The Sentient Toothbrush
I was challenged on my Ask.fm page to write a short story about a sentient toothbrush. Here goes! The Sentient Toothbrush by Richard Holliday 443 words Molten plastic slopped into vacuum moulds that quickly burped out an endless chain of uniform blue handles. A blast of air hardened the plastic as another metal protuberance pressed…