My name is Erin H. Smith, and I'm a blogger, bookworm, a librarian, student, researcher, writer, tutor, housewife, herbivore & Coeliac, learning musician, amateur illustrator, and gamer. My background lies in children's services, community services, children's illustration, game design, and programming.
My best friend, partner in crime, and husband is a boy named Peter, who is a musician, musicology lecturer, Youtuber, tutor, editor, bookworm, and gamer. He lectures at Sydney's Conservatorium of Music, and plays with Sydney Chamber Opera (among others).
We live together in Cabramatta, Sydney, away from the hustle and bustle of Cabramatta CBD. We have a huge backyard, and in it, house one dog, two cats, and a rabbit. We have a hobby-farm, which you'll find many pictures of on my main Instagram account.
I have three blogs:
Wallflower Journal is my lifestyle blog.
Bookwyrmle is my book blog.
Gamewyrmle is my games blog.
"Cli-Fi" as a subgenre of SF gains traction Down Under
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While it's true that Australia, unlike the U.S. and Europe, has not had a long history in the genre of science fiction, Australia in 2017 has a thriving SF/Fantasy genre with names recognised around the world. In 2013 a trilogy by Ben Peek fantasy novel and two sequels were acquired by a major SF publisher in Britain, Tor UK. His first novel in the series, titled Immolation, was published in spring 2014. The trilogy was called "Children" and books two and three were titled Innocence and Incarnation. By the 1950s, just as the SF genre was taking off in dozens of countries in Europe and North America, it took off across Australia in 1952 with the first of many Australian SF conventions.
Today there's James Bradley and Cat Sparks writing SF, with other writers, including Ian Irvine, Alice Robinson. Joanthan Strahan, Peter Carey and dozens of otthers following in George Turner's footsteps.
There is now a new subgenre of SF that's becoming popular in Australia, and it's been dubbed Cli-Fi (for ''climate fiction''. It's not so much as a literary subgenre to compete with other literary genres, but rather a PR tool, a media term, a way for newspapers and websites to signal to readers and book reviewers that climate themes in modern novels deserve a special mention. The cli-fi expression ws created as a way for literary critics and journalists to talk about novels of the Anthropocene.
Cli-fi was not created for novelists. They don't need categories or labels for their works. Even SF novelists don't need the SF label. Genre expressions are just marketing terms, good for selling books. Cli-fi was created for literary critics, book reviewers, book editors, publicity departments, advertising directors. It is a "key word," a media attention-getter, to attract eyeballs (and readers).
SF novelists tell stories. They've been doing this for over 100 years and will continue telling stories for another 500 years.
So Cli-Fi novelists in Australia and overseas have now joined the literary circus. Their stories focus on the possible repercussions of unchecked runaway global warming. It's a good subgenre of SF and will be for the next 500 years, too.
Hi Erin, I'm an Italian author and I had my novel "Cercando Goran" ("Searching for Goran") traslated by an English native speaker. Do you consider proposals of novels for possible review on your blog? I thank you in advance for your time.
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ReplyDeleteI'm working with a small, independent Australian publisher called Brio Books, and I'm helping to promote a book they've just published, Worth Fighting For by Suzannah Turner. It's a romantic fiction set in rural New South Wales. I'd love to send you a copy to review. My email is nahlousalexandra@gmail.com.
Hi Erin,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading through your blog this morning.
I'm the author The Inquisitive Gene, Book One: Mother is Coming and Book Two: The Human Cull. Two novels taking on an unconventional mixture of science fiction, fantasy and suspenseful-thriller, with undertones of conspiracy.
Who am I? I don't really know myself. But I go by the name Zino Tutt.
I'm on a philosophical journey, sending a warning to the world. There's something out there, something coming for us...
If you're interested in reading The Inquisitive Gene, I'm happy to send you a free copy each book (e-book or hardback, whichever you prefer).
Thanks,
Zino
Hi Erin,
ReplyDeleteI am an Australian Author of crime/mysteries with two books already published and a third, Small Sacrifices, to be launched on October 1st. I am looking for Aussie bloggers to review my book. If you are interested please contact me at leluttrell@hotmail.com Many thanks Lyn
Hi Erin, I have just written and illustrated my first book. I was wondering if you would be interested in reviewing it? Im very new to this process! my book is 'NOT just a knot' and it is a children's picture book. Thank you for your time Jess Sizeland
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