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Who is Sam? Phillip Mann
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
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Hipster pulp, Dougal McNeill
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
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Moments of invention, Bill Sewell
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
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review