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The speculative fiction anthology Ruins Terra (edited by Eric T. Reynolds) is now available for sale in Amazon.com and Fishpond.com.au .

Check it out - it contains my first sci-fi story After the Stonehenge Bombing , as well as other wonderful stories like Jenny Blackford’s Python , and NZ Vogel Award winner Douglas A. Van Belle’s Clonehenge.

The companion anthology Ruins Extraterrestial is also on sale at the above online bookstores. This volume contains “Beyond the Wall” by Justin Stanchfield, recently nominated for a Nebula Award. Read in entirety here: PDF and HTML.

One of the fun thing about being part of an anthology is checking out the other writers and artists involved in the project. Today I would like to suggest you check out Bob Eggleton, the artist behind the Ruins Terra coverart, which has a wonderful, atmospheric Constable-feel. He also has an art-a-day blog called bobsartdujour . Highly recommended, particularly if you are into Monsters! He is also a multiple winner of the Hugo Awards, and was a consultant for the 1998 movie Godzilla. I believe his nick is Zillabob…

I was also pleasantly surprised to read about his previous trip to Melbourne.

I have also touched base with some of the other Oz/NZ writers from the anthology: Lyn McConchie, Jenny Blackford, Doug Van Belle… and hope to write a short post introducing the works of each of them in future posts.