Sir Julius Vogel Award

Fiction of the little breaches: A review of Monsters in the Garden

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The winner of the 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Award reviews the sci-fi and fantasy anthology of the moment. Putting together an anthology is a balancing act. You’re making a statement: this is what the genre or scene looks like to me, and I’d like to think it looks that way to you too. Victoria University … Read more

Aotearoa is not Middle-earth

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One of our finest speculative fiction writers on how the Lord of the Rings fandom is damaging mana whenua.  There are kākā on my porch. They are circling each other, fanning their beautiful green and red feathers. They’ve found the pāua shell my flatmate picked up on the beach last week. It is shiny, so … Read more