Richard [K] Morgan's News and Views

Hmmm......time for an update, perhaps. Let me just get out of my bathers here and find a terminal....

Okay, first things first; here's an up-to-date list of the gigs I'll be doing on the eastern side of Australia this month, starting with Melbourne, next week:

Guest speaker at Melbourne Science Fiction Club, Friday 7 May @ 9pm Address: St David's West Brunswick Uniting Church, 74 Melville Rd, Brunswick West, VIC http://msfc.sf.org.au/index.php

Guest speaker at Nova Mob, Saturday 8 May @ 12pm Address: Community Room, Northcote Library, 32-38 Separation St, Northcote, Melbourne, VIC

Book signing at Galaxy Books, Thursday 21 May @ 17:30pm Address: 143 York Street, Sydney www.galaxybooks.com.au

Book signing at Gaslight, Saturday 23 May @ 3pm Address: Unit 10, 83 Wollongong St, Fyshwick, Canberra www.gaslightbooks.com.au

Event/Book signing at Pulp Fiction, Tuesday 26 May @ 6:30pm Address: Queensland Writer's Centre, 109 Edward St, Brisbane, QLD http://www.qwc.asn.au/
http://www.pulpfictionpress.com.au/Contact.htm

If anything last minute gets added to these, I'll try to post it as soon as I know. Meantime, hope one of these gigs is close enough for you to make it. See you there.

And meantime, there's western Australia. WoW.

Where do I start?

Whale sharks? Kangaroos? The sun melting molten into the Indian ocean? These weird crows with a little knot on their throat and a croak that starts out all macho and then tails off into a little whinge? Pelicans chasing toddlers for fish? Dolphins rolling on their backs and turning pink coz they're pregnant and happy? The best damn Vietnamese food I've ever tasted? A river canyon with striated multiple stripes of beige and red rock like someone kidnapped Ellsworth Kelly and transported him back to the days of cave-painting? Lethal, snake-swift aikido done with real and really fucking sharp blades, seasoned through with equal grindings of humour and humility before the form? Giant clams gaping sky blue and black, the swirling colours of a really mellow acid trip framed between massive coral-crusted corrugated jaws? Soft rose light at sunset spearing horizontal across endless brush? A highway right out of Mad Max 2, painted gunshot straight onto the soft rise and fall of the landscape ahead, all the way to the horizon and beyond?

Man, I seen all that and more, these last few weeks. All that and more. My head is full.

So. Some pretty massive thanks are in order, then: to the illustrious Perky, aka PRK, aka Paul Raj Khangure and the whole SwanCon 09 committee for bringing me out here in the first place, treating me like royalty throughout my time with them, and launching me and Virginia northwards with all the good advice and best wishes anyone could wish for. I'm having a blast guys, and it's all down to you!

To be continued.....