Recent content by Cosmic Geoff

Whoa! I see that other writers are self-promoting their own books here, so I'll do it too: Mine is a SF short story collection called "The Latvia Station" and it's published on Amazon e-books. It got one three star review so far. Here's the blurb: The LATVIA STATION collection of sci-fi and...

Just finished reading "The City and The City" by China Mieville, and "Kraken" by China Mieville. The former is a police procedural set in two cities with different names that share the same physical space (don't ask, read it!). The second is a magical story set in a near-contemporary London...

I too have read "The City and The City" and would strongly recommend it. The curious scenario could be seen as a political satire of divided countries, police states, or whatever. It's also an exciting read. It's a police procedural as much as SF and marks the author as being able to create...

Hmm, radioactivity? Sounds like it was written in the Cold War nuclear fear era. Maybe written by some famous old guy, like Clifford Simak. Maybe it was called "City." If not, try searching Google using what you can remember as keywords. ***************************************************** My...

Do like the other posters say... Also, you'll probably ignore this, but rushing to publish your first-ever novel isn't a good move. I don't even want to look at the first two book-length fictions I wrote. It would just be too embarrassing. Writing does improve with practice. I tried the...