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Who is Sam? Phillip Mann

Posted on September 10, 2017 by NZ Books

Star Sailors James McNaughton Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781776561018 This book is not science fiction; it is science fact. Global warming, unless controlled, will create an uninhabitable world. The threat is real: it is here, it is now and…

Tagged with: Issue 119, James McNaughton, Phillip Mann, Spring 2017, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Hipster pulp, Dougal McNeill

Posted on June 9, 2015 by NZ Books

New Hokkaido James McNaughton Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 978 086473 9766 James McNaughton’s New Hokkaido is not the “adventure that thrills and disquiets at every turn” promised in its blurb, but it does qualify as a page-turner: I read…

Tagged with: Dougal McNeill, Issue 110, James McNaughton, Victoria University Press, Winter 2015
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Moments of invention, Bill Sewell

Posted on March 1, 2001 by NZ Books

The Stepmother Tree James McNaughton Darius Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473078244 I don’t think there is such a thing as a “stepmother tree”. My Shorter Oxford hasn’t heard of it anyway. But if a stepmother tree has never existed, then perhaps…

Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Bill Sewell, Darius Press, Issue 53, James McNaughton
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review