Sunday, June 24, 2007

Andromeda Spaceways Review

Here's a review of Sasha from Andromeda Spaceways.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Sasha




Introducing Sasha. Here she is, out in Australia from July with Hachette Livre, hopefully to follow elsewhere at a later date.

The most immediate question I get asked is 'why switch from SF to fantasy?'

The answer is that I'm not really 'switching' anything. I write primarily about aspects of human civilisation that interest me. If this happens in the future, it'll be SF. If it happens in the past, it'll be fantasy. I've nearly finished the third book in the series, there's one more to go, then I'll be back to SF for a while, as I have some more future ideas I'd like to write. Where after that, I don't know, but the quality of character and story always interested me far more than the tropes of genre.

I think anyone who liked Cassandra Kresnov will like Sasha. Both heroic characters, for sure, but very different personalities. Sandy's very cool, but Sasha's a troublemaker. One day I'll have an argument with myself about who was more fun to write. Right now I can't decide.