I’ll be attending Radcon in Pasco, Washington February 13-15th, 2009. Come hear me read from the forthcoming Push of the Sky at the Broad Universe Rapidfire Reading.
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“The Beetle Eater’s Dream” in Space & Time Magazine #106
“Long after water became more valuable than human blood; long after oil became virtually useless; long after time ceased to have meaning for a dying planet’s ordinary citizen; long, long after that, there lived a girl. . . . ”
From my story “The Beetle Eater’s Dream,” now available in Space & Time Magazine Issue #106.
Push of the Sky cover revealed
Lovely, amazing, astoundingly cool clockwork bird art by French artist Aurélien Police.
Push of the Sky, a collection of short works, is planned for release in Spring 2009 from Hadley Rille Books. More information soon.
“Weird Fruits” wins the Marooned Award/ “Droidtown Blues” available online
Ben Bova’s Mars Life wins the Marooned Award for best Mars novel, Gustavo Bondoni’s “The Elcano Syndrome” wins best Mars flash, and “Weird Fruits” wins best Mars short story!
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Here’s a snippet from the site: “…one of the least known stories of the year and the winner of the 2008 Marooned Award for Best Short Story: “Weird Fruits,” by Camille Alexa. […] Alexa shows a more serious side in “Weird Fruits,” a dehumanizing work of dark speculative fiction. More Bradbury than Bova or Burroughs, “Weird Fruits” grows from the ash of a volcanic eruption on Mars into an earthen tale about the rotten fate of humanity.”
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I’m overwhelmed (and pleased somethin’ fierce) by the Bradbury comparison. If you’d like to purchase the download from SpecFicWorld, it’s here. Otherwise you’ll just have to read it in my collection, Push of the Sky, forthcoming from Hadley Rille Books.
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Would this be a good time to mention “Droidtown Blues” went live over at SpaceWesterns.com last week? “Droidtown Blues” is a sequel to “The Clone-Wrangler’s Bride,” the most-read story of all time at the site.
Zandra Renwick 
