Andi C. Buchanan
Queers in space, evil plants, found families, dead sea creatures, and reading recommendations!
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I'm a writer and editor based near Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. My novella From a Shadow Grave (Paper Road Press, 2019) uses a historical murder to explore lives and possibilities across a range of genres. My short story "Girls Who Do Not Drown" (Apex, 2018) won a Sir Julius Vogel Award, and I was named on the Otherwise/Tiptree Award Honour List for my editing work.
Each month I will be posting writing updates, a short story (new or reprint), an extract from a longer work or current project, and themed reading recommendations.
I like reading and writing about queers in space, evil plants, found families, and dead sea creatures.
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Sanctuary - an extract
Published Mar 12, 2020 · 3,935 words (15 minutes)
Fantasy ghosts found family disability haunted house autistic contemporary fantasy
The first chapter of my yet-to-be-published novel Sanctuary.
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Water Pressure - an extract
Published Feb 17, 2020 · 585 words (3 minutes) · 1 like · 43 views
This month's extract is a very rough draft - from the first of what I hope will become a series of science fiction/detective novellas.
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And still the forests grow though we are gone
Published Jan 22, 2020 · 4,969 words (19 minutes) · 4 likes · 133 views
Science Fiction plant apocalypse aotearoa kelp botany
There are just a few who refuse to evacuate. And now the forests are closing in.
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Invisible City - an extract
Published Jan 3, 2020 · 1,580 words (6 minutes) · 61 views
Fantasy Science Fiction time travel trauma war
Each month I'll be sharing an extract from a longer work; sometimes published, sometimes in progress. This is from an older novelette, but one that's still important to me.
Persson Catao is making a map. A map of the city where he was born and where he spent his youth fighting against a brutal regime.
A city that never existed.
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Under This Strange Sky
Published Jul 13, 2019 · 3,065 words (12 minutes) · 1 like · 39 views
Science Fiction war space forestry
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MAKET
Published Jul 13, 2019 · 877 words (4 minutes) · 97 views
Fantasy Literary Fiction Science Fiction
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Blueprints
Published Jul 12, 2019 · 4,818 words (18 minutes) · 1 like · 20 views
Science Fiction disability Immigration fat size
Another reprint - this time from the Crossed Genres anthology Fat Girl in a Strange Land. It's a story I'd write quite differently if I were doing it now, and yet it brings together a lot of the ideas I'm most interested in writing about.
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