I’m fudging things just a little here. Sagan Jeffries is the pseudonym of Ed Lukowich, Curling Champion from Canada. Lukowich has written several books about the art of Curling. Why art? It doesn’t feel like sport to me but more of an art form as you have to sweep the ice to ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
A bit of a surprising choice for the Alphabet of Authors as he’s only written one science fiction book but I want to celebrate the fabulous Idle. He’s done many things, most notably being one of the multitude of talents that created Monty Python. I’m thinking he was undervalued, he’s the ...
Breathe, just breathe. You know those days when you decide what you’re going to write about and then do the research? I almost freaked out when I was researching Lee Harding. Harding, born in Colac, Victoria in 1937, so he’s a spring chicken compared to my cousin who died at ...
In today’s issue of Authors by Alphabet I’m taking a brief look at Hugo Gernsback. Gernsback was an amazing man. He started the pulp fiction title of Amazing Stories thereby bringing science fiction to life. Gernsback is the person responsible for the phrase ‘science fiction’ and used it despite preferring the ...
Philip Jose Farmer didn’t write easy material, his Riverworld series illustrates that to me. Based on a world fairly similar to our Earth but with an incredibly long river, everyone who has ever lived wakes up at the same time. We have historic figures, nameless people and everyone in between. The ...
The fourth in the series of Alphabet of Authors, Delany is a youngster being only 72 this year. I found him in Webster’s Dictionary of American Authors from on my bookshelf. It’s a great book and you’ll hear read more about it at a later date. Today I’m looking at an ...